OUR WORLD IS SERIOUSLY BROKEN

How About We Stop Trusting Those Who Broke It to do the Fixing

I used to be a socialist. I decided that’s what I was in a high school economics class Yes, we used to have classes in economics before our owners decided it was more important to teach us that the earth was flat, the Sun rose in the west and humans- unlike every other species on the planet except perhaps for seahorses - are nonbinary). Our knee-jerk liberal teacher didn’t intend to teach us to admire socialism and truthfully, I might have been the only student so impressed. It seemed to me the workers could do a lot better owning the means of production themselves instead of working to enrich someone else merely because he/she had the capital.

So for many years I stuck by my socialist principles, thinking what a better world we could have if only we learned how to share. That was before I realized that government itself is the problem. The real function of government is self-survival and it hardly matters what it calls itself, it always ends up as Animal Farm. I consider it a good sign, however, that there are many groups formed around the idea of sharing and cooperating rather than exploiting and competing. I read a newspaper article, printed in the 1890’s concerning certain Native groups potlatch ceremony in which they gave away their belongings. Except that giving away stuff is considered sacrilege by committed capitalists and the article concerned the State stepping in and outlawing the ceremony.

I believe that all early human societies were far more likely to have been sharing rather than hoarding societies. Can you imagine an early society surviving at all were we to have had a paleolithic Bill Gates type in it? Everything for me, nothing for you - and no one, not even the ruthlessly selfish, or psychopathic could have survived such a society. They would have been kicked out of the tribe. As well they should be!

And currently there are groups that have formed and continue to form for the purpose of sharing. Some are local and some global working toward building a new (old) economic system based on collaboration. Shared Squared based in New York City says their focus is on making sharing cheaper, better, easier. There is also Ouishare which is international with branches in several European capitals. The School of Commoning offers workshops in collaborative consumption economics.

Can’t say how successful they are or might be, but collaborative consumption enterprises seem to be springing up everywhere. Seems a far more sustainable method of positive environmentalism than using one’s private jet to travel between destinations to meet other private jetters claiming concern about what the rest of us are doing to protect the environment. Somehow it is up to us, the job doers, to protect the environment and up to them, the money hoarders to tell us what we need to do. Unfortunately, when you live in a demented society in which we are lied to about just about everything, trust is always an issue. These organizations could all be backed by our current fuhrer, Klaus Schwab. If not, they seem closer to a system which would enable an actual democracy to exist.

Can you imagine a world in which people cooperated with each other to make life better, the world more sustainable for all; a world in which children actually did have a chance at a life worth living; a world which provided enough for all, no children dying of starvation or forced to eat bugs; a world in which the living celebrated life rather than the current world having the life squeezed out of it for a penny more of profit, a pound more of working class flesh by death cult psychopaths; a world in which we were all awake enough, aware enough to protect the planet we were planted on, protected our own lives, protected life above all rather than playing the fools, the brainwashed zombies doing the bidding of soul-dead tyrants.

Instead we have ourselves convinced that it makes a difference which uniparty stooge gets elected to play the part of president, to do the bidding of those who’ve bought our planet out from under us. They say we need population control, so kill a few hundred thousand more lives, not so sacred if born on the side our owners tell us to hate. Ask them why they hate, but there is no cogent answer as to why.

I am in a strange world with very strange and alien creatures. They don’t question, they simply obey. And censor and condemn those who are able to see the insanity which has befallen our entire civilization. We are living through a second Dark Age, possibly ultimately even deadlier than the first, while the zombified among us act as foot soldiers for the demonic forces of the death cult psychopaths. This too shall pass. But when? And with how much damage done? Will humans still be human? It’s a concept - “human-ness” - poorly understood by the tech billionaires seeking to un-humanize us. How much damage will they be allowed to do to us, to other species, to the earth itself, before they are stopped?

A long time ago there was a musical on Broadway called “Stop the World I Want to Get Off”. Funny how it hasn’t been remade for a modern audience. Everything else is since this also seems a time of maximum artistic sterility. I only mentioned the play because that is exactly how I’m feeling these days: stop the world I want to get off.