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This crazy cruel civilization only persists BECAUSE WE ACTIVELY SUPPORT IT. Our own destruction, the ruination of the Earth and the doom we are delivering to our children stops—when and if we choose something better.
It is a great irony that billions of people feel totally helpless, feel completely at the (nonexistent) mercy of greedy, selfish and unspeakably cruel elites. This is ironic because it’s the few thousand elites that are weak and powerless. They are completely dependent on us.
This is true across the planet, under every system and leader. Leaders have no power except the obedience of ordinary people—of us.
We do everything for them, everything they ask. Of course, they make it hard for us to defy them. Certainly operating within their rules, opposition is useless.
Some of us, many or perhaps most, give up in advance. We simply submit. Others try to change things within the system that is expressly weighed heavily against us. We behave as if we can beat the House, or the Senate, or the Executive, or (most of all) the Judiciary.
All of them are united in greed, in cruelty, in clueless ignorance, in selfishness—and against us. We think we can march in protest, write to our Congresspeople, and perhaps get a crumb thrown our way.
That won’t work. Sometimes the thugs throw us a crumb, to encourage us to continue the same impotent useless tactics—instead of something that works. But before we look at what works, let’s figure out what we want.
What We Want
Many of us think we want a functioning democracy, that we want what we had before. But that’s not nearly enough. That wouldn’t meet the crisis. That would keep elites bullying people, and would continue the obliteration of our biosphere.
When we think it through—starting from a clean slate—here’s what we want:
- At the very core, we want a civilization that honors our inalienable rights as human beings to be upheld without exception. And our view of inalienable rights is expansive. People must be able to live life fully as human beings—all of us, everywhere.
- Our values must change. The current civilization is failing not simply because of corrupted…
