Not too long ago workers were fighting for an 8-hour shift, women for the right to vote, and African Americans and gays for the right to be accepted as human beings. It is bloody struggles like these which gave us today’s society.
Yet those days seem like eons from another millennium, as the word “revolution” has become a synonym for Utopia. We have submitted so unconditionally to capitalism’s slavery that we’ve become incredibly sarcastic and pessimistic about what we can do to effect social change. But we only feel so incredibly powerless because we chose to give our power away in the first place: to corporations, to products, to clients, to mortgages, bills, cars and Netflix. We have invested so much of our life into this toxic necrosystem that we are afraid of revolting against it, of hurting it the way that it hurts us. I am bemused at how many people reply to me almost daily with “Really? A revolution? Are you kidding?” It looks like this system will need to hurt us even more before we bother to get up and join picket lines. And this is what it’s doing.
Nothing was ever won without a struggle against capital and power. Those who refuse to get off the couch should stop complaining about fascism, psycho leaders, inflation and the climate and ecological crisis. They have brought it upon themselves by letting this system do whatever it wanted while they were asleep on Netflix. The sound of their own popcorn chewing was loud enough to mask the thud of fascist boots as they advanced into the neighbourhood.
Revolutions are not for the meek, the weak, or the selfish. Only brave nations deserve a better society. Those who don’t care will get the worst leaders, and the worst society imaginable.
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Yes, we sold our souls to the “Devil”. Life is a battle of “good” and “evil”. It is two halves of our own brain. Our senstive mammalion side and our violent reptillion side. The reptile is a tough opponent. We have become too “civilized/domesticated” and relatively affluent to fight for the mammal side. The reptile keeps rearing up until it leaves the “planet” a bloody ruin if we give in. Do not lead us into “temptation”. Love Rick
EROS VS THANATOS
The “UNIVERSE” is a bipolar play of opposites. “All the world is a stage.” The battle for equilibrium is eternal. We are not conscious enough to recognize our silly attempt to control the entropy of the chaos/order of the opposite poles. We think we can do a better job than “nature/god”. Some how “god” made a mistake and never intended us to live like other “lower” animals. We were destined to rule/dominate and travel the “UNIVERSE” How is that working out? Love Rick
We are still acting out our story of Cain and Abel. We our living out our eternal ” GROUND HOG DAY”. We are slow learners. Somehow our wise men/women are considered fools. Ignorance is also a tough foe. Duning Kruger is everywhere. Love Rick
We are “IDENTITY CRISIS” writ large on “spaceship earth”. Love Rick
Here’s the problem, people (besides people being the problem) – there is no social structure and The System loves it that way. Each unit of housing, whether it holds one or more people, is an island in a sea of drifting islands. There is no social structure other than millions lined up facing one failed ruler. This is a failure on many levels. People are a small-group animal – unless they form a small group they are adrift. That is the purpose of modern city design, to keep people isolated and constantly destroying any sense of “place.” In your immediate locale, there should have developed a local cuisine as a result of local culture, that being the production, preparation and enjoyment of food. But cities have destroyed connection to the land, to place, to belonging, and The System thrives on this practice. Keeping people from developing real community is essential to prevent organization, to prevent revolution. Promoting actual People Power requires forming small groups of perhaps ten people and forming an collective between a representative from these groups of ten to form the next higher group level, and so on until all have some part in the overall social structure. The overall structure could take the shape of, for instance, Steiner’s Three Fold Social Order. But without overall social organization, you cannot implement meaningful change. The System depends on that. Otherwise, you need a rebel base and a leader like Fidel Castro to overrun the faulty government. Against the most powerful military? Good luck!
Yes. A tribe is less hierarchical and more network. Hierarchy uses divide and conquer. “Domination in servitude” instead of “agency in communion” The sociopaths among us fell in love with hierarchy and overpowered agency. It has been a self reinforcing feedback loop that is extremely difficult to undo. Especially if you are opposed to shedding blood. Rick
Brilliant Kathleen. I wish the social and political repercussions of urbanization were taught in those urban geography classes I once took…