"21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global
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it discovers only in the course of its acting, in a politics of geosocial artistry and cunning rationality. A form of abductive experimentation that seeks the best means to act in a complex world."
Good excerpt -- I couldn't manage the patience to drive through that whole manifesto -- I feel the answers do not need such bloviating -- & anyway, I've got to work on my water-harvesting landscaping, prune my grape vines, and turn my worm farm :-)
What is said there, I've been writing into a practice-based curriculum at http://ecosa.org -- the idea of systems-thinking approaches to holistic un-mastery of the biosphere that we are merely transitory parts of. I fundamentally do not like the concept of design, though, as it pre-supposes changing that which flows around us. Maybe an adaptive, consciousness-raised going-with-the-flow ... sensual improvisation that would include, perhaps, the removal of our selves from living viability. If this approach was wide-scale enough, the population drop would start the process of a post-human re-balancing of the planet's dynamic equilibrium.
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