If your house is burning you have basically two options; do nothing and allow the house to burn to the ground or extinguish the fire completely and rebuild your house making sure it is totally fireproof this time.
A problem cannot be solved by applying more of the same reasoning and principles that created it.
The for-profit, kapitalist paradigm is an unsustainable, unspeakably evil, criminal enterprise. It is the problem. It is the fire burning down the house. Unless and until it is completely extinguished, what we'll get is what we've got and have had for many centuries. In due time the house will be completely destroyed and nothing will remain.
This existing system cannot be fixed. The reason for this is quite simple; it's not broken! It is functioning exactly as desired for the small minority that controls it. They are the fire-starters, a group loosely referred to as bankers or financiers.
That minority, along with the lapdogs and sycophants from the corporate and political classes, is a parasitic infestation within the human species and upon the body of Gaia. The parasites are controlling the hosts and killing them at an ever increasing pace. The parasite must be extirpated.
When your house is burning, you don't take the fire from the living room and move it to the dining room to "fix" the problem. We've got to put out this fire completely, tear down the ruins and build a completely new, fireproof house.
The Ovis Aries Syndrome?
Unfortunately most of us, the 99%, have been so indoctrinated to the top-down, hierarchical systems that have ruled us for millennia, we can't conceive of doing things any other way. Even when it gets bad enough to arouse a bit of rebelliousness in us, all we seem to do is meekly plead for the system be repaired.
Only the complete demolition of the existing system and its replacement with an entirely new, non-profit, open civil society will suffice. It's time for us to finally become civilised.
Populations are now so receptive to blindingly successful systems of indoctrination that willful ignorance has become the new intellectualism.
We have been conditioned to comply rather than question. Ideological "belief", blind loyalty, patriotism and faith trump rationality and critical thinking every time. My country right or wrong! Think about it if you can.
We have been trained to "believe" that competition is better than cooperation. We so believe regardless that common sense and experience show clearly, repeatedly and incontrovertibly the complete opposite to be true. Competition is merely a euphemism for war. As anyone knows, in any such scenario, if someone is to win, someone else must lose. To the winner go the spoils.
Now, after centuries of cleaving to this ill-conceived, regressive paradigm, despite overwhelming evidence of its utterly destructive nature, we have a class of parasite, the "1%", that has finally "won" the "competition" and is sucking the Life out of Life on a global scale.
The sustenance of the parasites, today known as "capitalism", with its all-encompassing program of globalisation, a usurious, privatised monetary system based upon fraudulent commodity money and the for-profit paradigm of gluttonous, unrestrained consumerism must be utterly eliminated.
That fire must be drowned, leaving not so much as a smoking ember. No chance can be left for this conflagration to ever be rekindled. Thus deprived and isolated, the parasites will die off. They are utterly non-productive, incapable of self-reliance and can only survive by the labor and depravation of others.
And the first one now will later be last...
Parasitism is an aberration. Life is ultimately a symbiotic process. Given a chance to evolve within the constraints of natural law, the human species could become a fully functional partner in the Life process.
The Universe is yet emergent and humanity nascent.
The consummation of the marriage of Mammon and Mars has produced an offspring that relishes in and profits from destruction and death. If the small minority that worships this monstrous deity is allowed push the rest down a path that is clearly suicidal, our species will never attain its full potential.
The creatures we named dinosaurs dominated Life on Earth for over 200 million years before succumbing to natural forces beyond their comprehension. Not their fault. Could happen to anyone.
After a paltry 200 thousand years, the species Homo sapiens teeters on the brink of extinction as a result of its own hubris and recklessness. Nobody's fault but our own.
That the critical moment we now face would come was clear to me at least 30 years ago and I've tried to warn people of it most of my Life. Being a mere blue collar labourer, without "credentials", my voice was never heard.
Now that the credentialed pundits are announcing old news as new and the masses are finally responding tepidly to the oppression that has been building stealthily around them for so long, I fear it's too little, too late.
The momentum of this Imperial cycle has passed the Rubicon. The sad and bloody folly that passes for human history will be repeated yet again. This time, I'm afraid the blood will bathe the entire world.
In my opinion, if the protests, demonstrations and civil disobedience in Amerika escalate and start to gain momentum, cohesion and broad support, our ostensible government will make the dictatorships we allegedly oppose, even though many if not most were installed by us, appear benevolent by comparison.
The hypocrisy of Hilary Clinton, condemning various tyrannical regimes for using violence against peaceful protesters, whilst our militarized police are doing exactly the same, is simply nauseating.
We are a global family, community, tribe, clan; whatever descriptor you pick, we are all fundamentally the same, bound together by Life. It's time to recognise that this is an asset, embrace it and use it for the benefit of all.
It is time for the parasites that profit from death to be cut from the body of humanity once and for all.
If not, then in this time of cancerous kapitalist globalisation, what has happened to the least of us will soon happen to all save a privileged few who will fiddle with gluttonous glee while burning down the house...once and for all.
"There is no way to Peace. Peace is the way."
A.J. Muste
A.J. Muste
According to Nova, it can be traced by DNA that apes took on human DNA and stood upright about 6 million years ago. About 3 million years ago, along came 'Lucy', whose DNA can be tracked in every living human being today. While 200 thousand years (the date I think when 'our' kind killed off Neanderthal man) is relatively long-sighted in comparison to the Abrahamic Trilemmite (Christian, Muslim, Jew) perception that God created 'Man' only about 10 thousand years ago, it doesn't do justice to our infancy, I believe. I hope some new calendar after the coming cataclysm will show something like "January 1, 6,000,000". The 2000 something date has our minds set very myopically.