-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2016 02:47 PM, xorcist@sigaint.org wrote:
It's a counterpoint to all the technocratic libertarian bullshit that appears here. as if that republican crap somehow 'punk'.
This society is sick and perverse and needs to be put out of it's misery like a rat dog that just bit some gentrified whore's kid.
While I do understand the frustration and anger to our current society and situation, I would encourage you to think a bit about what society would actually turn into upon its collapse. Invariably that comes at huge price, generally involving bloodshed, and resource shortages, and when things get really fucked, regional warlords, rape, pillaging, etc. Societal collapse is never a good thing for the people that have live through it. The USSR handled the transition about as well as can be expected, and organized crime took over a great part of their national wealth nearly overnight.
Ain't no "if" about that collapse; "when" would be more accurate. To condense the behavior and design-mandated outcomes of industrial civiliation into one sentence: Unchecked exponential growth inside a closed container does not end well. That applies to the global material economy, which has already exceeded hard limits and /will/ produce mass casualty events.
As sick as this society is (and I do agree on that), bloodshed is relatively at a minimum, and resources are plentiful. Hell, even the homeless can be overweight and have ipods and shit. There are egregious acts of systemic violence, naturally - and I won't condone a single example of it - but I will note that oppression of blacks by police is certainly less today than it was in the 60s. And everyone is better off than we would have been under nearly any monarch that ever lived.
And the wonderful achievements of Progressive Liberalism only cost us: Ongoing wars of economic conquest, enforced poverty and de facto slavery in the NeoColonies, refugee columns headed north from North Africa and the Middle East, massive environmental degradation at home and abroad, and upcoming mass casualty events on a scale never before seen. Here in the USA we have epidemics of non-communicable diseases (due to "necessary economies" in industrial food production), a positively /dangerous/ mass of disaffected former Working Class people looking for scapegoats and quick fixes, and a wider income and assets gap between the ruling class and peasants than was present in feudal societies. And, oh joy, the U.S. domestic economy is being looted by military interests while State Security forces are being rolled in to "contain and control" a projected large scale popular uprising. But our "homeless people" can have a shiny toy to compensate them for their lack of basic security and so-called necessities. Yes, they are marginally better off than (for instance) the residents of cities bombed out by U.S. proxy forces to protect and serve the U.S. National Interest. So that makes it all OK. Nobody in Amerika is so bad off that murdering some kids overseas can't make at least a tiny bit better off; all boats rise on the tide of blood.
My point, in as much as I have one, is that on the whole -- while human societies are deeply ill, with a long enough view of history it seems as if we are ever so slowly healing. I do understand that this isn't fast enough for you. I do understand that you deeply yearn for a just society. But there just isn't anything that can be done to heal instantly. It's not the way healing .. growth .. works at any scale.
Slowly healing? But not fast enough? I wish I had the kind of income and assets that make it possible to submerge oneself in that delusional fantasy world. Our Middle and Ruing classes voluntarily participate in rationalizations supported by a propaganda regimen that assures them things are getting better, and all the Bad Things that do happen are absolutely someone else's fault. That propaganda is paid for, along with everything else supporting Middle and Ruling Class lifestyles, by the ongoing war of global economic conquest that keeps the engines of Western Civilization running at full throttle. That engine is fueled by the blood of innocents. Today's "comfortable" lifestyles are capitalized by borrowing against a future that will not happen, and every passing year of business as usual makes the upcoming crash worse. We are not in hock to human creditors who can be bribed or bullied to forgive the debt; we are up against cold equations imposed by the laws of physics.
But try to keep in mind, when you yearn for its collapse, you might well be wishing for your sister, mother, or other innocents to be raped, or killed. You might well be wishing for a situation where kids need to whore themselves to help scrape up some food for their families. And YES that happens now. But we need not wish more of it on ourselves.
Blame the victims, and anyone who disagrees with you about how fucking wonderful Industrial Age civilization is. That's the Party line. Meanwhile, the "mature, responsible citizens" who parrot that propaganda line do not WISH for their relatives to be raped and killed: They support the rape and murder of whole cities, which pays for their comfortable, upwardly mobile lifestyle. They also pointedly ignore the fact that their own families WILL face that kind of deprivation and violence as an unavoidable natural consequence of living in a purely self-serving fantasy world.
Just a thought. And honestly, some days I think "fuck it all" too so, I get it, I really do. But I try to keep the other stuff in mind too. YMMV.
The thing we call civilization now faces an existential crisis, but as long as it serves their self interest our Middle and Ruling Classes will welcome any opportunity to indulge in pathological denial. Intelligence only means one has better tools to defend rationalizations; education is a synonym for indoctrination; "success" motivates reactionary Fascist conservatism regardless of any Liberal or Progressive mask it may wear. Sorry, I know this extended rant of mine will annoy a few people, amuse a few others, but change not one fucking thing in the real world. Sometimes one must vent. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX8sI5AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqTUgH/3AdwbRHDxJOODV1+UK8L2Xd Mhce//CHJRrnLzw+iEBjK75B+1nuPCmQtcNKbIvI0M7LgLh86O8GGwbh2ij5E64+ HZ7KR47AEr4kpz/jTjTftszzDOcmrWQC/izbNawjmw5zvvArgC6WJ9bQxCC2TmZR lyT8O0q41x/M2IBEdY/4fkPEqhQYWPmiDDQrOllDqBYh4TojbZba0c4t+NMDubxe sQNzbDgxo6P33zH2qJc0FBFpOUP9Vo1f60c9U1C9PManw2TlP1XHMu/0Sza8hsoZ 8Ls061+ryvxIN4+hFFXQ86PzL/BdirxDwh/u8VR4v1kJdvgJLnouML8XWiT4jMU= =FqMF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----