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The lies we’ve been taught are so deeply ingrained, we haven’t been able to think straight. At this late date, we are learning to see all too clearly.
Nearly every plan — and in reality, there is no plan — to save the world from climate disaster is an economic plan.
Why is that?
Nearly every person on Earth is on an endless pursuit of money. This isn’t ambition and a consuming desire to get rich. It’s the humbler goal, to eat and have a roof over one’s head. To stay alive one more day.
What makes this necessary is our existing economic system. We live within this system like a fish in water.
Now it’s easy to give the system a name — capitalism is often identified as the enemy. But it’s more than capitalism. It’s every system that enables an elite to force others to work for them, for most of their lives, often until death.
Whether you are working to meet the demands of the Chinese Communist Party, or Putin’s Kleptocrats, or the widespread Plutocrats best symbolized by Wall Street, you are caught.
And all of these systems — which seem to be in competition with each other — are united in exploiting you and in ruining the biosphere of our Earth with oil.
Ironically, the greatest danger in the world, and the worst abuse is where the world is united, not where it’s divided.
Obedience of the Masses
Your work is almost certainly useless and very likely destructive. Both you and the planet would be better off if you did not work.
This seems like a ridiculous claim. We have all been taught about the merits of work, of how it builds character, how work gives us a purpose, and how ambition focuses and energizes us. Idleness is the enemy. Or so we are taught.
What this means is that every moment you don’t use to earn money, to work in servitude to an exploitive and undeserving elite, you are lazy and useless and your life is empty.
The exact opposite is true. This bears repeating. The exact opposite is true.
Work is meaningless, work wastes your life, work is immoral because it demeans life, and because it’s a…
