The Eight-Pointed Manifesto

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1. Modern industrial civilization is intrinsically unsustainable. This means that it will inevitably collapse.
   
2. Any effort spent trying to prevent that collapse is pointless and misguided. It would serve only to prolong civilization's death throes and the continued destruction of the natural world.
   
3. Industrial civilization is created and supported by institutions that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, at virtually any cost.
   
4. Any effort spent trying to bring it down is pointless and misguided. It will be met with massive resistance from civilization's guardian institutions – our corporations, politicians, police, schools and mass media – and will foster unnecessary violence.
   
5. Since collapse is inevitable, adapting to that change is the only sensible approach.
   
6. We cannot count on the institutions of civilization to help us adapt to this change - it's simply not in their interest to do that. Even worse, they can't even comprehend the idea.
   
7. That leaves individuals and small communities (aka tribes) as the only historically proven agents of adaptation.
   
8. As individuals, the single most effective thing we can do to prepare and adapt is to awaken.

~Bodhisantra