I was going to write about my garden, which is fully planted, but there is so much going on in the world right now I find myself needing to sow some ideas in the fertile soil of the internet first.
So here goes with some random thoughts.
* When you steal the contents of a store you are a looter.
When you steal the contents of an old growth forest you are an enterprising industry leader.
* When telling a lie, tell a whopper. Keep repeating it. If challenged, double down.
For example - "You are free." "We care." "TINA." "Corruption only happens in other countries." "You have Freedom of Assembly."
* You can rob more money by owning a bank than by robbing a bank.
* There is never enough money for the people's projects.
There is always enough money for propping up crony capitalism.
* When you dump a load of steer manure on a CEO's doorstep you are engaging in "domestic terrorism".
When that CEO dumps toxic shit in your drinking water he is engaging in "bringing jobs and prosperity to your community".
* When a crowd of people are in the street (some with automatic weapons), disrupting traffic and screaming moistly for haircuts and a sit down fast food meal, they get a police escort.
When a crowd of peaceful, non-violent, non-armed citizens are in the street screaming (also moistly) for justice they get pepper spray, rubber bullets and police infiltrators/provocateurs instigating violence to discredit their message.
* When you try to save the Earth you are an ecoterrorist and will be rewarded with scorn and incarceration.
When you succeed in destroying the Earth, if you are lucky, you will be rewarded by becoming a billionaire.
I can see who the real looters are, and where the real violence is coming from.
It is not the citizens I have seen in the streets, who are largely peaceful and compassionate toward each other and loving toward their communities.
Right now the real looters are on a record-setting multi-trillion dollar rampage. It is the largest transfer of wealth in the history of large transfers of wealth.
And the largest purveyors of violence on the planet are state authorities trying to keep our necks under their knees. "We can't breathe!"
These truths aren't being reported while we are obsessing over The People's understandable reaction to an obviously messed up social and economic situation.
Well said
ReplyDeleteYou are so spot on. This is the truth. It is so infuriating to have that label of terrorist applied so selectively and untruthfully. Trevor Noah did a serious piece on society breaking its contracts with its people similar to the ideas you have so eloquently expressed here. Thanks for your voice in this wilderness of spinning the truth. We need it now more than ever. Nancy
ReplyDeleteI will be looking up Trevor Noah, because he is right. It has all broken down. That is all right though, because now we have an opportunity to build it all up differently. In a way that works for everyone, not just the looters.
DeleteGreetings,
ReplyDeleteA poem from B. Brecht:
Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times ?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them ?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph ?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone ?
Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him ?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep ?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it ?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors ?
Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill ?
So many reports.
So many questions.
Yes, so true. The history books leave all of this out, don't they? Who really are the "little people"?
DeleteGreat post!
ReplyDeleteSo very accurate. What we need are people out in the streets protesting ALL of the corruption, avaricious destruction and wanton decimation of life. Protesting is a start, but we need much more than signs and marching. We need to completely overhaul and overthrow the entire rotten system. Otherwise, those in power will "allow" us to march, over and over and over again without ever really getting anywhere. In fact, that's what they prefer. A veneer of "freedom" to speak our minds and march, but only in the designated places and times that they allow us to. And the suffering and corruption continues unabated, while they pay lip-service to us, pretending to care and to listen to our concerns. The people need to reclaim their power and unite.
ReplyDeleteThings are starting to crack, and the light is beginning to shine through.
DeleteReunite! Reclaim! Restore! You are right - we have to stick together and keep up the pressure the likes of which have never been seen before.