thousand year mistakes

Read an article by Bill Mckibben on getting arrested to protest a coal fired plant and some one linked to this article in the comments. That second link is what I call infiltration. I guess doing it once is probably possible for most anything anywhere, but where does the resistance strategy really gel? Does it require too many bumbling and now paranoid scientists and mall cop types now that this shenannigan succeeded? Or can we count on the american inability to identify a map period as a second use reappropriation of the "master's tools" for the manufactured ignorance so unavoidable today?
McKibben doesn't want any rowdy types though, everyone must dress as if they are on their way to a (white) protestant church. Apparently congress owns this thing and they can just stroke their john hancocks around and make it burn another kind of fossil fuel. joy.

So I came up with the idea to write this piece and celebrate justice. Justice in the face of ~10,000 years of bad decisions, rewarding those who made them with power and legacy, technology and all of the other accoutrements that go along with the fly paper we huddle from and get stuck to in this wonderful modern world. First: I must google how far back does it go? Could've guessed, John Zerzan interviewed by Derrick Jensen provided an answer. Oddly enough, now that i think of it, I've seen both of them speak to, Zerzan in Syracuse 2-3 years ago, Jensen in Binghamton last year. While Zerzan wasn't nearly this cogent when I saw him speak, this piece was easier to digest and jibed with my understanding of anthropology, which too has made me sympathetic to anarcho primitivism/ eco-anarchy for many moons now (not that i'm counting).

This just provides a backstop. It is politically useful that we all share the belief that primitive life was brutal, harsh and short. But only after we switched to agriculture. Agriculture allowed people suplus from excess crop and thence: wealth. Maybe it started with the Joneses who everybody apparently has either been trying to keep up with or whom the our rebellious forebears badmouthed and were thusly repressed by their barbarian hoarde.

First mistake: agriculture, boo! booooo. end result: franken food, factory farms, ecological devastation, corn syrup, obesity, false scarcity from commodification and globalized trade in cash crops leading to preventable deaths form starvation, malnutrition, anorexia, obesity. oh and food poisoning too. Starts here but the population problem gets in the way of it ending here because coupling the worlds population of us , a tertiary level predator with the worlds remaining mostly devastated ecosystems= dieback. Can't sell the die back, at least not honestly even with truth in advertising. People must be manipulated in the abbatoir towards the killing floor if we are to believe what we see everyday.Agriculture is the mother.

The stream of thought then jogs to the right in the development and progression of authoritarian personality, culture and society on my way back to the next big mistake: monotheism replacing tribal spiritual practices. Much like direct democracy, which at least was somewhat practiced here by our indigenous neighbors whose stolen land we now inhabit, some people are a good fit with the 'process". Those people facilitate other peoples experience of mystery in the world and embracing mystery as an unavoidable fact is a great reminder to all of us on our pursuit of critical transivity. It isn't about celebrating our ignorance but finding ways to be that minimize the harm ignorance exercises on us when left unchecked to form it's peculiar morbid routines. It isn't about some crass personification of the forces of nature but a direct experience with life beyond the known boundaries and the mystery of existence. When people started forcibly converting each other, they set a really, really bad precedent into motion. unfortunately for everybody, those with obviously more sophisticated spiritual practices were fought violently in the name of the current normative spiritual traditons. My suspicion is because the behavior patterns needed to repudiate the onslaught was incompatible with their spiritual constitution at some level. It was still intact and it is always easier to destroy than to build.

Second mistake: militaristic forced conversion to synthetic religion. BOOO! BOO! BOO!
This also conveniently welded the aggressive personality with an alien concept of morality, thus, now discipline(read regimented, preoccupied with rules, obsessed with the right perception and inherently lacking self esteem sufficient to question inequality as they create the lesser other to be sacraficed in themselves in their gesture of loyal abasement to the soverign then project martial judgement on all who are unwilling to folow suit) is frequently confused with the types of value we are taught to desire so we can attain wealth and the favor of our cruel and cold god. This abberation set the foundation for two things. One was a demystification among "thinking" people no longer attached to outcomes of their actions as severed form the earth which accompanied the scientific breakthroughs and the development of empirical scientific process. Second was a capacity for cruelty towards others and nature that could only arise from a hoard of ork like creatures who were denied the connection to beauty and meaning in everyday life and who would hunt down anyone, child, elder, woman, man suspected of cavorting with the devil in similar ways. To me this seems inextricably linked in crucial ways to the eventual rise of colonialism, the slave trade and it's logical conclusion of fascism replete with an ethnic cleansing and social darwinist moral philosophy. Evangelism is the warped and addicted father. Empiricism is the estranged but equally absolutist uncle, who may still be of some use were he to come down from his pompous ivory tower, learn to laugh or something.

Then people went and turned excess driven wealth into a paradigm that the entire world must engage in. Compulsory capitalism! land not owned or used by bussiness interest became manifest destiny from this sensory deprivation disease that infests the minds of those who are blinded by its bling, deafened by the ca ching of cash and dumbed down enough to be spoon fed whatever those in power need you to believe today. War was declared on those against the will of the masters of the universe. Of course only the innocent and the pawns died. Blood stains us all, and it will not disappear no matter how you try to wash it off.

Capitalism is the child, the child that tantrums when it does not get its way. The child who over simplifies the world. The fickle child who has no self esteem but cannot keep itself from showing of. The selfish child. Capitalism, always with the next thing to sell, the dream of wealth without work, miraculous, growing, like vines, suffocating everything, cancerous. Capitalism, the child who just can't learn and has no one to step in and say "stop! NO!" Spoiled, vindictive, unkempt. Capitalism would rather despoil the entire world than let us try, in case we are right. In case they are wrong. And if they can't have everything, then no one will have anything....
Capitalism is ready for a nap, or better yet ready to grow up dialectically.


In summary, the thought I started out with is that we keep making these awful choices as a species. Not everybody because there are still some isolated people who are lucky enough to not have had contact(or very much contact) with this disease, and there are those of us who have made it through and seen their way of life as a natural conclusion to the sustainability question. Who do we follow, what we do, what we think about, how do we allow ourselves to be lead by fear. These questions keep coming up in our dialect, because the answers just aren't what you might hope they would be. This current dilemma, the econopocalypse is the end result of ten thousand years of failing to make the right choices and we've finally been pinned down by it. The triumphalism was never more than cheering and jeering by the fans in the stand watching the game but never knowing what the rules should be, nor what would happen at the end of the game. Most just always just rooted for the team with the better marketing gimmick, and that was what it was all about, that was the substance to their triumphalism. The future is plain and has no wrapper, it simply is because there must be more to why we exist with all of these complicated thoughts and emotions that to divert our attention or to indulge in some eternal consumerist hunt for deals or whatever. We're not just going to die off, and I'm sure arrogance will drive people to draw the line in the sand with their creature comforts. That is auto selection I guess so adaptation is a key survival skill now.



You(probably to some extent) and I make the pendulum swing, and i keep looking for a good place to jump off before I just say FUCK IT! and jump off wherever I am. because where else will i ever be otherwise, just the same back and forth. work, home, work, home, hope, despair, hope, despair, seasons go by ever faster. no time for this, no time for that, family's getting older, closer to death... will I ever see my grandmothers again? no time, back and forth running in circles, debt, wealth, debt, wealth, death................

all the while the sound of flowers dying.
As they die, so do I watch the terxture fade of true wealth in hope and dreams of life not for profit, but just to be lived. It must be realized before the portal closes.
In the spirit of total resistance.- Orphelin de Nephilim

only you can prevent false scarcity

I have been increasingly thinking about survivalism. Today I read a post from the Washington Post about this computer programmer guy and his family. They (he?) figured out the safest place in the world based on a number of criteria and decided to relocate to New Zealand. Not sure having things like that broadcast in articles confirms the status, and I've thought of relocating to places ranging from the rural locales outside the city where I live to the Canadian Maritimes, British Columbia, Virginia, a Caribean island, Hawaii, somewhere in central or South America (Costa Rica, Belize,Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Argentina, ) to Europe, the steppe, anywhere peaceful, and relatively uninhabited.
What I came to realize a bit earlier, it's not where you locate, it's who you locate with. Maybe I'll be fine just outside of town, or even in town, who knows. What I do know is that it will be different everywhere. I know that I don't want to be an outsider stranded halfway around the world from where I belong.
So I had an idea to form a survivalist collective with friends and family. I will ask people who I know if they are interested in agreeing to try to meet up and find each other somewhere safe and liveable. We can come up with ideas and probably multiple networks and work on pooling our resources without dislocating and bugging out too early.
I'm not your typical survival type. I believe a society is reinforced by it's tolerance and it's ability to resolve conflicts in ways that benefit the most people. I believe education as a tool of critical thought is the defacto foundation for sound decision making crucial to any participatory democratic society. I am pro gun, pro self defense, eco-imperitive, anti authoritarian, inclusive wealth equals sharing anomaly. The next world will be on a smaller scale, with spiritual challenges and rewards, with human interaction and celebration the root source of our will to go on as opposed to the techno-economic straightjacket that suffocates us and ransoms us out piecemeal with paychecks and gadgetry. I believe rent and interest equals exploitation, and things on too large of a scale poison their surroundings . We should only pay as far as things cost, and scale can yield us a livealble sustainable world with plenty of room for everybody to contribute what they are good at, or to further develop what they could be good at. Overcoming the scarcity mindset is a meditative purpose of mindfulness. Also, by the time we actually produce the things that sustain each other we will find the cure to 90% of mental illness and alienation we experience currently. We will experience the evaporation of the idiocy of opinion replaced with the dull grit of practicality which can polish us into something evolved instead of obscuring us in a cloud of hot air. The fall will be marked with people dying foolish deaths and in as far as society can prevent sectarian bloodshed such as has been found in Iraq, sub saharan Africa, or Afghanistan so will it be successful. Once a place goes down that road, don't expect it to end, time to move on. So we have to preserve peace in as far as possible and first order is destroying conventional notions of ownership and distribution to alleviate the despair that would otherwise arise from false scarcity, thereby restoring a sense of community where we are all ultimately responsible to each other to preserve the liveability of our surroundings and the safety of our families and friends.

BIG TIME!

Yes everybody, we've arrived. And departed?
I've been saying this for way too long. I should be in a primitivist bunker(cave?) somewhere living off of rations but apparently I'm just not that talented or organized. Instead I'm congratulating myself for fighting off a bread crust of illegal debt thanks to this website. When what we need is more of this guy's ideas. Write down NOW! why should anyone be honest when it comes to debt when we can be assured they are going to follow a straight line trajectory into catastrophe which we're all lined up to hit. It's all going exactly as someone planned it to go, because there is just no logical excuse otherwise unless incompetency has been purified into some everyday substance the gross majority of people have no chance of avoiding exposure to. That kind of plausible deniability on this scale just doesn't add up, and even if it did, we really are fucked either way as far as capitalism saving anything for its lumpens who are now the bottom 95% of us thanx so much popular culture and MSM....

I guess it's a good time to blow whatever credit you have left on doing those things you wanted to before you died, because for most of the people out there, that's going to be the next phase. We won't see a debt write down without a population write down, and now that we can all be sure some military/ nsa intelligence wonk is proof reading all of this after that first article.

Here's a note to you and all of your buddies: your superiors lie to you, they make shit up to get you thinking they know something no body else does because the world can't handle the truth. Ever heard of this speech by Gen. Smedley Butler? Or Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex? Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel's backyard wars are all just weapons testing exercises in live fire conditions and assymetrical psychological operations so you all have the practice to control a huge well armed country full of angry people here. Refuse the orders to repress your fellow citizens when we rise up against our debt slavery. Join us. Don't be a tool for the ruling class, use your intelligene to make a better world. Lead the way with your bravery of dissent and perhaps many of your comrades will see your example and recognize your leadership. The Milgram experiments were shown to be less effective when somebody had the courage to defy authority and bear that unknown consequence. You may well find yourself at the precipice of a moment when you will be asked to do things that may catch up with you in a trial of crimes against humanity if you don't find the strength to refuse.

Maybe there is still some spark and shadow of heroism left in military service despite the rote brainwashing they force everyone to go through ... I'm almost certain we will be finding out in the next few years when they are called up to confront those of us who actually believe in the realization of freedom, not it's mockery in this current form, not it's inversion as it's mirage of the abstract higher ideal. Freedom as tangible practice, practice which encourages more of it, wealth as generosity in proportion to what you have and as a common good so that everyone has something and we find that shared something to be what's worth defending... the terms of the debate are getting starker by the hour even if you don't want it to go there. It's like the countdown to hide and go seek has started on some grand scale.

The False Face Sky.

I was gonna post this thing I wrote the other day. Same call for the same shit that I don't expect to happen. although it is amusing that the economy has collapsed, albeit who knows if the shell game is really up or if the illusion makers can pull off another convincing scheme to get the majority believing in belief again. I hope it's really on it's permanent way down, not because I wish peoples dreams and expectations to fail, just so we can come up with a real solution when those people finally give up on this shit brained idea of ...... whatever form of expletive capitalism you prefer to call it. The word expletive represents all expletives not any particular one since I couldn't think of just one descriptive word for it.

Believing in belief. sounds absurd doesn't it? The one useful thought I had recently had to do with that old beaten dead horse I always drag out from under my bed for these blogs: the Mohawk Valley Formula. No link, guess you'll have to google it or swallow the big pill and read some of the older shit on here. This interview with Michael Hudson caught my attention and filled in the missing intellectual link.
besides finding his debt writedown solution the only reasonable one so far, this quote caught my attention:

" I learned the reality a few years ago in London, talking to a commercial banker. 'We’ve had an intellectual breakthrough,' he said. 'It’s changed our credit philosophy.'

'What is it?' I asked, imagining that he was about to come out with yet a new magical mathematics formula?

'The poor are honest,' he said, accompanying his words with his jaw dropping open as if to say, “Who would have guessed?'"

There it is. The end result of the formula is a mass audience with some significant portion watching or, reading it for a pastime, finding themselves in the hall of MSM illusions and simulacra believing their artificial and cherry picked narratives which tend to filter heavily any appearance of class. Thus we are given the bootstrap philosophy, the blame the weak philosophy, the rich are just like you and me philosophy... and here we have it, the annointing of the rich as a self made nobility. It scaffolds the illusion of support and legitimacy over our whole society. It redefines their legitimacy in a shared landscape with the default state of existence in the larger culture. While it doesn't share the wealth, it does share in this mystical simulacra common the filtered reflection of reality. This creates a false consciousness bolus among the conventional which lends to the myth that you can work hard and be honest and some day merit a larger share. That being possible makes it a fair system. That myth being extremely unlikely makes it's representation as such the realm of speculation amongst the cynical, the jaded, the agitators, those who appreciate irony, and those who recognize it for what it is. In short it is an enormous, shrouded lie that leads to wasted lives in so many avenues and is of such a scale most people can't recognize it for not being the real sky, because it has filled up the sky for their entire lives and the lives of their recent ancestors.

Maybe no one even believes any of this shit any more beyond the incredibly naive. But of those that do how many possess the aptitude for self reflection to sort out the fact or fiction that models their actions? What I'm looking for is some reason as to why no one reacts. Are they really happy enough as it is? Is it learned helplessness? Is it some combination of fear and greed? Is it some variation of the Milgram experiment and a majority just go along with whatever anyone who seems to fit the archetype of someone who knows what they are doing regardless of the outcome?

The bigger question, and the better one to me is how do we interrupt this meme? Can anybody do anything about it, and could anyone know what the next step is beyond this incredible collective hangover which hasn't seen daylight yet? Do we co-opt it or better yet modify it into a vaccination against obedience to the point of stupidity and self destruction. Or is that a fool's errand? Do we help it crash or do we try to figure out where we can avoid it's chemical reactions as it decomposes violently? I guess reaction is up to the individual. How many out there would rather talk about action in it's pure context, only to find that everything is a reaction from this monstrosity, navigating it's communicative medias, dealing with it's pre-fab opinions, and it's legions of dysfunctional waste. So many things ruined, and when the tsunami comes, then comes a whole new scale of reaction, a whole new set of parameters, a whole new development in the war for control versus decontrol and the possibility for untethered action.

nihilism can be the best answer for some things

The problem with 'ideologies" is that they are blanket solutions to complex layered problems. There are instances where democracy is a very preferable system for decision making. There are other choices that do not lend themselves so much to the same process. It requires a proper situation, a mentality amongst the people that lends itself to cooperative endeavors where advocacy for one's rights or rights of those close to you is not mutually exclusive with the rights of all collectively. For example, political opposition to pollution controls make no sense in any way except as a narrow advocacy of a special interest which is influential beyond the scope of it's actual actions due to accumulated excess value traded on the market and earmarked for that corporate person to extend itself in it's one or two dimensional way into politics. It automatically and adversely reacts to changing the business model out of fear. Direct democracy or anarcho-syndicalism even could not be relied on to enforce a different set of mores if the livelihood of those involved was questioned or jeopardized. It could be expected that if such a progressive model worked it's way into power that there might be a different conventional understanding of interrelationships such as pollution to the greater well being of the people and ecosystems happening in and around it. However, there is no defacto a priori reason precluding the present status quo form being more convenient and thus the rational choice.

In the same sense anarchism applies to being an ideal we should strive for in many ways. But human nature being what it is, what is there to preclude a place with fascist culture from acting the way everyone there felt they were born to act and invading their peaceful neighbors? The biggest problem with the total lack of power is that it must be an cultivated and ingrained cultural philosophy much in the same way democracy needs certain planning and reasoning skills to be a norm in order to function for the needs of it's participants.

That said, we see a very unusual version of socialism rearing its grotesque head as the american experiment attempts to bail itself out of the next great depression, the same logic spouting forth from some very conservative (or assumed to be) minds. Here is where the political system starts to unravel. To look towards the point of this bailout is to perceive the silhouette of the beast called capital attempting to be resuscitated by any means available to its keepers. There is nothing they will not do to try to maximize the life and reach of this horrible expression of human ingenuity which has wrecked the planet's ecosystems, and created massive problems no one has the tools to solve (or the will to use them if they did).

That said, here we have a time for nihilism. Destroy all of the illusions! We must. It's more than mere iconoclasty, this requires a revision of what our options are as human beings with conscious free agency. If this wretched system is taken off the table, well then what is there to replace it that is not as bad or worse? Every day is another choice to continue to participate. We choose to accept money for our meager share of responsibility in eco-cide, the genocide of indigenous cultures still outside of the wicked machine, the repression of each other not simply by having a universal system of representational valuation e.g. money, but by it's extremely gross mal-distribution, leading to poverty, chaos, intensely horrific living conditions and a whole host of malefic wraiths caused by excess and deprivation still lingering in the rotting forms of past prejudices.

This line of reasoning appeared to me earlier today as a vision of the future.

I foresaw a TV news program, perhaps many programs, with the regular talking heads saying the opposite of what they used to preach.

The scenario is the extreme devaluation of US currency(hyperinflation) caused by issuing money because no one is willing to buy our debt and we can't operate the country without it.

An erogenous zone of sorts will be passing by, boosting exports, but alas….

We’ve spent the past five decades eroding all of our manufacturing capacity,

and all we can make

and sell anymore are

autos nobody wants or can afford,

weapons nobody should wish upon even their enemies, and

drugs which are technically legal only because we control the entire process outright to the point where we can force them on the unwilling(e.g. vaccines and certain psychotropics in some circumstances).

Remember that these talking heads reversing themselves is necessary for the continuity as they are like beloved characters from TV shows with whom we are taught to identify as recipients of perpetual one way discourse. They have been given authority by virtue of us being forced to look at them, listen to them and refute their terrible nonsensical illogic.

They are perpetual distraction, and even if you can avoid them you can't avoid others tainted by their exposure to emotional based logic who are vulnerable to being sold a bill of goods.

During the hyper inflation,

you will hear about the recovery over and over again,

with the fake-it-till-you-make-it crowd being given the bullhorn trying to coerce battered people who’ve already been hoodwinked by the outward logic of the system to believe things are fundamentally restored.

Things are fundamentally retarded as far as the economy goes,

no offense intended to those with physiological based developmental issues please,

but it is an exact descriptive of the system and it's effects on human development.

Conventional logic dictates that then "they" can take the money out of their mattresses and

bring it back to the casino for the professional gambling addicts on wall street to play with.

However, hark, what have we here: no one is buying debt, still even though we’ve stayed so faithful to the exact reason and logic that caused this incredibly unbalanced system to lose its balance and fail.

It’s not failure. It’s a logical sequence.

As it gains steam and becomes oppressively obvious that the old ways are not going to ever work again, just when people would be ripe to consider creating a world of possibilities unshackled from the boundaries of scandalous acquisition being sanctified by lobbyists, lawyers, politicians and courts; this call will go out. “We need to redevelop our national industries outside of the pressures of the international markets telling us what we can do, where we can do it, and how we can do it.” This will be the resurgence of american protectionism. The ugly twin of the neo-liberal globalization, a twin because it serves the immediate needs of it's one true master: those whose existence and needs trump all the rest of ours because? They worked the system. They exploited the opportunities. They worked their way to the top. They inherited it from long lines of blue blood. The point? They are better, worth more even though in death they will share a fate with everyone else who ever existed, with every living creature. Maybe, maybe not, but that's how the system acts on their behalf.

There will be increasingly nationalistic bleating about jobs, and a new anti-free trade tack may even be welcomed at first blush by those of us opposed to its monstrosity as it currently plays out.

Unfortunately this will be the sign on the road to fascism that we've reached the suburbs and we're almost there. The refrigerated leftover ethos of the "war on terror" will be turned over to the "war to save the economy", since that is what it has always been about. They will make it's fate tied tightly to yours in as far as they can.

Another ploy to act ostensibly in the interests of the masses, while it is really about protecting the position of power of the ruling class.

It will be a way where they will be able to mitigate the full impact of having worthless currency that equals money losing meaning as a prime motivator for human behavior. Maybe the borders will even be sealed.

I’m not saying what replaces it will be any better should the system fail haphazardly. I'm sure it would be a wide spectrum of things in different places , or even many different things in the same location (or near location).

It could be better, but only if we accept possibility and think forward logically from that point. ( my feeling of total decay being inevitable puts me on a fringe I’m willing to occupy).

Without any planning it will surely be worse, but since people are always planning, it will depend a lot on who is planning what and where they are.

IMHO, the best ideas for dealing with this stuff, unfortunately for most centrists, it’s an old bogeyman they have long been taught to fear in the self interest of their masters. A thing called libertarian socialism.

It was developed to deal with serious class inequalities that inevitably are generated by unfettered wealth accumulation models when they stop being able to function due to fundamental flaws. Like accumulating so much wealth at the top it dries up the consumer spending model it lives on. SUPRISE!!!

Good riddance I say, consumer spending only exacerbates eco-cide, and without it, only make the next world more likely before more eco-cide has occurred. So hurry up and bungle it already, but be sure to bungle it right so it loses credibility forever and the weirdo future fascists can deify and fetishize this modern world as their sociopathic dystopian ideal already.

Cooperative models can't work without a reconventionalization of notions of property for the benefit of most people, a redistribution for excess holdings to equitable distribution. Don't think of it as taking away from grandma, unless she is super wealthy, more likely it will be guaranteeing your grandma will never go without ever again. Anybody coming down off their high horses is probably somewhat culpable, needs a dose of reality pills and should consider themselves lucky if they get off better than your peers from the French Revolution. I'm not saying I'm for it, it just happens to be what they deserve.

Fixing the current system almost inevitably will be able to do nothing but promote current inequitable situations, albeit with another bandage solution to a mortal wound.

The banks should fail. The markets should fail. There should be crises that reflect reality. Only through debt elimination and equitable redistribution can we face and deal with the root causes of social malaise. Only through a new community where basic needs are guaranteed as is the ability to contribute towards the world meeting those needs can we evolve beyond this current dystopic status quo which is strangling the world in social and ecological ruin.

Imagine your debts are illusions, scarcity can be overcome if enough people decide they can cooperate to help each other meet their basic needs. This could be the purifying fire that should presage a better world, but like all things much sacrafice should be expected. When society's demands grow to absurd proportions, then we must all(or maybe just enough of us) refuse. In anticipating this moment, people everywhere should develop the tools needed to cooperate through the stress of that breaking point, only us supporting each other can yeild a bearable world in the end. Go ahead meet yourt neighbors. If you don't like them meet the next group of people who live slightly further away. If they don't work either maybe consider your interpersonal skills as a revolutionary weapon and talk to yourself in the mirror or something.