Since there is an increasing recognition of the up to now presumed other (car, tree, dog, person) as being fundamentally the same as oneself. Differences are there, can be celebrated and are required for the play we enact on our Planet, but are secundary.

When experiencing this, energy technology or a listening ear for your neighbour becomes self evident. Rather than something you do because it should be done and/or depleting your good do account.

Up to the time some % of people (here are some interesting issues) reach a higher level of awareness, efforts to reach significant/sufficient developments re sustainability are futile.

This is so, given the chaotic structure (or lack of structure) of our world society. The intellect + current structural/institutional arrangements are unable to properly use the technologies that can set us free.

Reading newspapers, blogs like this one and an occasional structure-exploring book suffices to illustrate this.

'Chi' (life force) is a by product of following your Tao, Wu Wei wise. Perhaps we could set up an experiment and see what works.

'Those that have gone before' = those who know their trade (like mathematicians) and can judge the proper usage of the tools of the trade by anyone claiming something in the field of mathematics. Not: judge all possible outcomes. This belongs to a proper usage.

Thus: authority in the sense of being an authority re a specific field (ranking higher in knowlewdge): yes. Being authoritarian (repressive): no.

Writing here is my investment in a group of intellectuals in order to probe the potential for a transcend and include of the intellectual domain.

A fixation on this domain muffles humanity's potential for growth / reducing of suffering.

Emil

ps: really guys, where's all the resistance coming from re ideas that indicate our common potential to overcome the usual dead ends?