These dictatorial powers exist to allow for our ruling
oligarchs to use all of the police powers of the state to protect their stolen
wealth, along with their vile lives, from the inevitable wrath of their subjects as the economy worsens.
Also, because their wealth is based upon their control over the existing means
of generating wealth, they will not allow for fundamental change in how we
produce surplus wealth: energy, for example. Coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
fission are what we get. Never mind that we are destroying the ecology of the
planet (something that sooner or later will kill most humans by the way). Never
mind that production of conventional oil has been flatlined since 2004 and must
soon begin to decline taking out ever larger swathes of our economy as it does.
Never mind. It works for them. And they control. Period.
I could go on, there are other interrelated,
impending crises, however that is not necessary. We live in a nation, and on a
planet in which citizens do not exercise control over their destinies through
electoral politics. The existing political system in all major nations,
including in the US, is IRRETREVIABLY broken. As soon as people realize that,
then it becomes clear that change can ONLY come about through extra-political
actions. The Arab spring, the Occupy movement, are the merest foreshocks of
what is to come. These movements, even if non-violent will be ruthlessly, murderously
if need be, suppressed on behalf of the threatened oligarchy by the compliant
politicians of the state. Until they succeed that is.
When people come to understand
that the most that our visionless, thieving, rulers can do is to merely prolong
our ever increasing national and planetary agony just long enough to bring
about total, as opposed to merely partial, ecological collapse, global famine, the
absolute implosion of our economy and so forth, then our civilization will have
entered into a fundamentally new configuration. One in which We the People
assert our innate power and terminate the destructive order which has enslaved
us.
The giant sucking sound produced
by all of those who have so mercilessly exploited others will indeed represent
the utter doom of these pallid, hiding under a rock, maggot like creatures.
However, it will also represent the deep and fundamental reconfiguration of our
present unsustainable civilization to a sustainable one. One in which the first
humane, ecologically conscious human civilization emerges.
If we do not act, but rather
collapse passively into the giant crisis-attractor, along with our doomed, avaricious
oligarchs, now about to terminate our present civilization, we will still have
a fundamentally new societal configuration: a Global Dark Age. Choose your
future: hell for god knows how many ages to come on our plundered, despoiled
planet, or something imperfect, but much brighter.
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