The mistake every slave owner makes is to miscalculate the physical breaking point of their slaves. Most in fact assume that their slaves have an infinite tolerance for abuse. This couldn’t be more true today when our physical health is increasingly ignored, violated and monetised by a necroeconomy which has turned healthcare from a service to a commodity, and is only interested in corrupting our mind, expecting that our biological existence, our body, will simply follow suit.
Not so easy. There are physical limits. When these are exceeded, the tables turn: it is the sick body which now dictates to the mind. The sick and the hungry are now ready to fight. Not for their freedom, but for their very survival.
This is why revolution against this system will only materialise once our actual bodies begin to feel the collapse of civilisation. For those of us with a healthy mind and body connection, a whole Infinity State, this has already happened long ago. But for most consumatronic humans it will only happen when they reach their physical breaking point: arguably, too late.
Others yet, are transitioning from a consumatronic to a consumosceptic state. They are beginning to realise that they are seen as consumption units by a system which tried to convince them it is not a slave owner, but a protector. They are realising that they can make active choices, if they begin to think for themselves about what is and what isn’t good for them. Along with the physical triggers, the mental breaking point for these humans, is trust. When they no longer trust this system, when they can see through how it has cheated them and robbed them of their body and mind, they are ready to revolt. The consumatronic zombie has just had an epiphany: it can see how it has been manipulated, like a remote-controlled machine being sent from one shop to another, from one exploitative job to another. Enough is enough. As it begins to test drive its new consciousness, the zombie realises it feels more alive, healthier in both body and mind, if it lets go of the attachment to the necrocapitalist theme park. Our natural state is to live a much simpler life: one which gives both our minds and bodies the space they need to develop themselves without intrusion, instruction, distraction, prescription or oppression.
Although revolt against this dehumanising economic system begins in the body, it also requires direct confrontation with the original fear mongering and economic growth narratives of the Church of Money and the Unhappiness Machine. By driving to extinction any sustainable business that ever existed, this system has almost convinced us that all business is, and must become, by definition, ecocidal. We have very few living examples left of truly sustainable business which we can emulate. They were all destroyed in the name of profit, which only benefited the business owner. The truth is that, although today’s post-industrial ecocidal business model is much more profitable for the business owner, it is in fact an overall loss maker when you take into account impacts on equality, the environment, the climate, and everything that lives and breathes on earth. This can hardly be termed as a successful business.
Many are therefore afraid to be outright anti-business, fearful of being labelled nihilists. But becoming anti-business does not mean you are anti-human, in fact the opposite is true: most business today is by its definition anti-planet, which effectively makes it anti-human. Modern business is out to kill us all.
Because of our programming, and because it is the body who eventually triggers the mind to act, the chances of a revolt against necrocapitalism, not to mention a successful one at that, are limited. But any honest, genuine revolt doesn’t ignite based on its chances of success. It takes place on purely ideological grounds, sometimes in full awareness that it will largely fail, yet manage to leave a crucial legacy behind it for the next revolution. “Heroes” prefer to go down fighting not because they want to sacrifice themselves, but because the only valid form of existence they recognise is one where they are free. This requires both courage, and the disturbing, yet liberating realisation that they have been slaves all their lives.
Revolt is a natural, healthy process in any society, much like an occasional forest fire clears out the ecosystem and rejuvenates the forest. But our ability to revolt is being disabled by a civilisation which appears to have irrationally decided to censor itself out of existence, making its bed literally inside the inferno it has ignited. It thinks that it can sleep through its inconvenient collapse.
What’s the point of employment when most jobs are servicing a suicidal, self-destructive business model? The consumatrons are waiting in front of their laptops, smartphones and service counters, having become nothing but executive assistants to their own extinction. But this could change once the body wakes up.
George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on Twitter @99blackbaloons
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That’s really well-written, and beautiful in its sociology – because it concurs on what I’ve been thinking, of course, especially about the “anti-business” part.
However, today, this kind of truth brings up a problem. Max Azzarello had a master’s degree in city planning from Rutgers, a BA in anthropology, had worked in various white-collar and political jobs, and then started noticing the need for a “revolution” against what he properly termed “the evil billionaires.” He also properly targeted the high-tuition Ivies, and he wrote very well. He read Russ Baker’s excellent “Family of Secrets.”
He went off the deep end, of course, finding esoteric meaning in the Simpsons, and setting himself on fire yesterday.
Really great piece, especially about ‘anti- business.”
Speaking of ill.health, the man who set himself on fire wrote really well, and had really brilliant points to make about ‘evil billionaires” and mob-like higher Ed factories – along with some truly unsupported nonsense.
I.have no idea about your feelings on this, but I have to.admit some respect and kinship for this unfortunate mentally ill victim.
Thanks. I didn’t know him. RIP