Things We Can Do To Make the World Better. Let's be positive and at the same time assertive. We can make this better.

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Things We Can Do To Make the World Better

by John Kendall Hawkins

We all sense the world is entering an era of rolling pearlharbors. one crisis following another filled with unhappiness and tears -- sunset, sunset -- shortly no one cares...Below, in no particular order, is my own list of things we might try to do to fend off the general gloomy gussiness ahead. Won't you respond friends, send me some money, or tell us all what you would do?

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Regulate Guns

Don't ban them. We might need them. Don't look now, but there appears to be tyranny ahead. Did you know, my good dos equis friend, that Michael Moore is a member of the NRA? (Bowling for Columbine.) Remember how he confronted Moses/ApePlanet/Soylent Green Cop with an appeal for simply regulating the f*cking things. The country has about 425 million guns floating around. Can't we all just get along -- with just one apiece on average? On the other hand, we definitely need to be ready to go all Concord Minuteman again. I wish they had guns here in Australia. No, really. If tyrants ever showed up here in Assange Country...shhhhhhhhh...

Just today (08/24), Paul Street, in Counterpunch made the astute observation:

...while the Taliban is terrible, it does offer a good global example and role model in one sense: it shows again (as did the Cubans and the Vietnamese from 1959 through 1975) that Superpower can be defeated even by small and poor nations through dedicated popular resistance. This at least is something from which non-reactionary movements, nations, and peoples around the world can and should draw inspiration. The Mafia Don Uncle Sam, with its 500-pound bombs and its giant network of bases, is not God...

If we must be Minuteman against tyranny -- and taxation without representation (secret wars). then we must. It says so right in the Constitution. We "have a duty."

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Open Up Insider Trading Rules to Include the Spouses of Congresspeople

Nancy Pelosi and the other Democratic dinosaur Feinstein are feeling that their insider knowledge may be on Jeopardy: Answer: My husband's accounts are not mine therefore I'm no insider. Question: What do you say when investigators ask about your stock market prescience?

I mean: in jeopardy.

It's unconscionable that Congresspersons should gain from their public service. Wait, did I say that right?

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Democratic Socialism

Why not? Why not guarantee every American free health care, free education, free welfare? That's rhetorical, son. Full HEW. You need a heart transplant: Take the old one away and replace it immediately (Duh); you shouldn't have to fight to begin the transplant process, nor find a specialist on short notice. Are we not human? In Australia, we find a model: tertiary education used to be free in the '70s, under Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Free. Any degree. You could follow your bliss to doctorhood (and move overseas) or to lawyering (although that would be a wasted career here, but you could complete the degree online so as to avoid embarrassment). But when they offered it, few showed up. Which is probably why they offered it for free, come to think of it. Then Gough got assassinated politically by the CIA and the Mafia (I'm probably only kidding) and the freeby got nixed (probably by Nixon). Now most conservative Aussies who remember him will tell you that nobody liked Whitlam anyway. So what if England interfered in our affairs?

But still, even today, tertiary education is a fantastic deal for the would-be degree-seeker. There's a lifetime allotment for each citizen (up to $155,000), and if you finish one degree and still feel hungry, you can do another. Mangia! You may have to take out a state-sponsored loan, but repayment is tied to your ability to repay. If you choose to get a degree in art, you can, without some f*cking loan thug threatening to ruin your life before it's begun, and leaving poor hungry artist, you, thinking about joining the Army. Tsk-tsk. And they have a decent safety net (not generous) that keeps many people afloat.

The whole system is, while flawed, a model of generosity compared to the nastiness of the American Dream con. From what I can see, capitalism is keen and healthy here, lots of millionaires.

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Moratorium On Wars Everywhere

A Brown University study has reckoned that the US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion. Further, they report, 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases have been put into the air.

Let's pretend that Climate Change, plus Covid-19 and the pandemics to come are the Terror we must fight to survive as a species. Maybe, if we put a profit motive to it, we can come up with a cure for Climate Change in 9 months.

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Audit the Pentagon; Discontinue Reliance on Contractors for Wars

By some accounts, up to $32T is missing and accounted for over the years. Think: Infrastructure and guaranteed HEW along lines similar to that described above. $32T.

As for war contractors. Baaaad. No morality. War should be a necessity built on existential threat, not world hegemony. We could see a definition of evil as the desire and intention to cause others serious harm or worse, either physically or psychologically, and to derive joy from such behavior. (Already we take into custody folks who are a legitimate danger to themselves or others, to preserve the peace and/or to help *wink* them.) But the definition would include bankers and Wall Street f*ckers who intentionally build housing markets and make bundles of cash off the knowing expectation of the total inability to repay mortgages. Sure, such thinking implies that capitalism has to be reigned in. So what? to employ a common Cappie expression.

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Give the UN Cajones

First we fobbed off the League of Nations, created after the War to End All Wars *wink* to prevent future wars. Then we had more wars anyway and the League became irrelevant. Never again requires eternal vigilance. Ask the Israelis. We'll just clown around and end up with more atrocities piled high on our flapjack plate, syrupped over by the MSM. Because we.just.don't.get.it. The Suicide Club was alive and kicking millennia ago. It only got more efficient with technology. But same ol watering hole disputes.

Now we have the United Nations, but America won't listen to their proclamations -- IPCC means nothing -- although the US has a partially world-controlling seat on the permanent security council, and doesn't always pay its dues to the UN (a billion dollars in arrears). Like the League, the UN was supposed to be a more earnest attempt at making sure nation-states came together to keep the peace and to solve critical global issues as they arise. But few people even want to be caught dead in one of their tee shirts, meaning the whole lot of them will end getting bundled and sent to some far flung place like Papua New Guinea and get worn by people who don't understand why the crazy gods threw away a perfectly svelte tee.

American power brokers took away the bull's cajones; it's time to give them back. No, not that way, Donny.

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Total Student Loan Forgiveness

All of it. Go f*ck yourself, Uncle Sam. Loan shark the wolves of Wall St.

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Population Control

Duh. World population, 1900: 1,700,000,000. 2021: 7,900,000,000. You'd think we fight wars just for the Baby Boom action. What, she's gonna say, no? I don't think so. Alice, where are you going? Alice?

Nobody wants to talk about the population crisis. Each of us is about 60% water. Each year there are more and more people. Each year there is less and less water. Something has to give.

Now, the maniacal Cappies will keep pushing us to rabbit on because our pandemic of morbid obesity means economic growth to them. F*ck the Amazon rainforest, they say. Buy something on Amazon -- say, Rainforest Cologne. A little dab'll do ya. Then hit on Alice again. What's she gonna do, say, no?

I know the poles are melting, so theoretically our children's children children will have fresh water in principle -- unless they f*ck it up like that Kevin Costner movie, Waterworld. But we gotsa lay off the ploughing and the seeding and live within our chillens means. It's a favor to the future generation.

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Nationalize Banks, Utilities

Fight back. Don't take any more, Lefty. Cold cock the Far Right Darwinists on the cheek. Thus far, we've had nothing but words to take back the night with, but they've pissed on the Constitution and now we'll have to fight (let's fight). Because the psychos who control things have figured out they are the Lucy link to AIs and fear they'll be rounded up and made to serve the Good for a change. Or worse, Silicon Valley psychos are building AIs in their own images. When the dust has cleared, we probably won't have a population problem anymore. Let's hope it's the T2 Schwarzenegger ending. But it could be the dreadlocked Predator. They're savagely ironical like that.

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Form A New Political Party

It's really a no-brainer. We keep being reminded that political parties are private. They don't owe the public anything but their promises. We found this out when the Democratic Party told a lot of us to shut the f*ck up about Bernie and his disenfranchisement from the nominating process. Really, Hillary might as well have given us all the Finger. Herb private server at home was also another finger. Don't f*ck with Hillary Hanson. Look what she did to Daffy Qaddafi. But they rolled her anyway.

No, it's time to consolidate into a voter block all the disenfranchised groups into a political party: uni students, Blacks, Latinos, Injuns, and women. What are they gonna do, say, no? As good friend Greg Palast has pointed out innumerable times, these are the people who get mail-in or provisional votes, who Republican state secretaries arrange for catastrophes to happen to their polls -- all of it behind their backs without them knowing. Palast writes, in his immensely entertaining and illuminating book, How Trump Stole 2020:

...on Election Day 2016, a giant hunk of the student vote simply ... vanished. And the Milwaukee Black vote also plummeted...And so, Trump is President...And Wisconsin's student vote evaporated. Nationwide, only two states recorded a drop in student voting. Wisconsin's drop was breathtaking. In-precinct voting by students declined by a third, from 67% to 49 %.

Is it any wonder that Trump thought that a simple phone call or two in 2020 could sort things out? Trump lost (narrowly) because the traditional missing votes showed up this time.

Let's gather these voters who don't get counted (by the millions) and begin a new private party, The Disenfranchised Progressives. Balance of power. f*ck 'em.

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Make Water not War

In the Milley Vanilla War College Report on Climate Change (see my review) the Army revealed plans -- indeed the need -- to come up with a gizmo that will extract water right from the air. War in the desert, they said, makes you thirsty. They wrote:

One of the most recent developments is in the area of atmospheric water gathering. Some researchers estimate there may be as much as 13 trillion liters of water in the air," the Report tells us, and "we" just need to come up with "a device called a water harvester.

I once picked apples with Jamaicans in a New England orchard. I wonder how the rain drop picking would go, and what would count as 'fancy'? My boss said I picked nothing but juice; maybe that would be a good thing this time around.

Well, the Pentagon gave us the Internet, so you know at least part of them has our humanity at heart. Hivemindedness is a form of love not seen since the heady days of August 1968, the year they arrested Abbie and the 8 (7) for their thoughts. Can you dig? Abbie once tried to levitate the Pentagon and negotiated how high he'd lift it with P officials. So they gave us the Internet as a reward. Thanks a lot, Abbie. See you soon.

We need those pocket aquifers. No, not that Donny. Give us the aquifer or we'll go all Occupy on your ass.

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Teach People How to Live In Caves Again

Oh yeah, it's coming. Time to move to Cappadocia. Especially young and feminist women.

If you stay 'here' then men -- the evil men who ended civilization -- have plans for you that will give you the willies. And them, too.

I'll treat you right though in Cappadocia. Underground cities are already there. We will start a matriarchal utopian society. Like at Çatalhöyuk. Yeah, that's what we'll do. What are you gonna do, say, no?

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Reparations

First, see my poem, "What Would Abbie Do?" Catch the vibe, man.

Then, end slavery everywhere. Let that be our new manifest destiny.

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Minimum Income Per Month for Everybody in the 99%

see below

Luxury Tax the Richest

Treat the 1% racket like baseball or the like. Anything over a certain threshold, say $100 million a year, gets taxed. Proceeds go to the above.

Or we go all Mr. Robot on their asses and take everything. Ethical hackers and such. Or we could just wait for them outside and roll them in the alley.

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Encourage a Final Showdown

Stage a massive Waterloo type face-off on a battlefield, winner-take-all, and, when all the warriors are assembled to rumble, drop a f*cking gay bomb on the whole lot. Yes, I'm serious. And watch the festivities begin. It might be a real hoot to see the new minority heteros picked on for a change.

Gay Bomb. Winner of the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize.

(Article changed on Aug 24, 2021 at 7:34 AM EDT)

Authors Website: https://tantricdispositionmatrix.substack.com/

Authors Bio:

John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.