Civilization is a ravening monolith bedecked in human scythes. Ill-gotten mistress of our gained fears, civilization metes out hope — in a hotly becked, statistically-bastioned evidence — of the endgame of its Technologic heights. Having vain and vastly plundered the storied ends of Earth-stored fertility and “changing colours of its fruit,” it’s peaked and poised, poisonously, to leave us all…

bereft and leaning.

Equivalence

Civilization and Industrialism are, for all squanderous intents, equal; or,

Wikipedia:Kali is to Wikipedia:Shiva as Industrialism is to Civilization.

However, this is moot! As Industrialism passes peak extraction on non-renewable resources, we pass beyond the probalistic pale of knowing.

Trinity

Civilization, manifest as Industrialism, is aptly summarized by this —

Robert J. Oppenheimer‘s epitaph to the world’s first-detonated nuclear device and first deliverable for the Manhattan Project, for which he served as Scientific Director:

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

— Robert J. Oppenheimer. White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. 1945-07-16 05:29:45.

Triage

The remainder of this page thus delegates to Industrialism.

Its granite monolith’s been risen; now, what’ll we do? For,

  free
Will is in our province.
  perhaps it’s time to
Will-fully exercise it.

Valence

^{From Industrialism.}