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Why Merely Restore Corrupt Systems When There Are MUCH BETTER Options?

Ray Katz
6 min readApr 13, 2025

See this essay free HERE. Of course we ditch fascism. But why restore a failed plutocracy, continue the abuse of people everywhere, and permanently destroy the Earth?

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Not so long ago, there was a pandemic and we learned a lot. (If we were honest with ourselves, we’d admit that it never ended.) We learned that rich people, giant corporations, politicians, CEOs and executives are useless. We learned that many of US are essential workers. And that NONE of the elite are.

We learned that most of our jobs are nonsense and wouldn’t be missed if they disappeared.

We learned that we hated commuting to work and that we could find better, more satisfying things to do than waste our lives in cubicles or on factory floors. Even making sour dough bread was more fun. And more meaningful.

Yes, sour dough bread is fresh healthy food, we made it ourselves, it tasted great and it was good for us. It was so much better than capitalism and plutocracy — the actual systems we live in, hidden behind the rhetorical lies of “freedom” and “democracy.”

Of course, we didn’t like the disease or being cast into the unknown. We hated the isolation. Oh, and the deaths, many of which were the fault of lies spread about science and medicine and vaccines…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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