'Granny D' in the West Virgina Woods

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

by Doris "Granny D" Haddock

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-24.htm

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And as a species, are we not waddling toward the cliff? Why has no great leader stood upon a rock with sufficient persuasion to halt the march and save the day? Are the forces now too great against mere words? Are the zombie masses, holding the hands of their children, on a Jonestown-like death march we cannot fathom or halt? Is it evolution itself we are watching, with our species automatically pre- wired for extinction when, say, there are, by God's count, more Washington lobbyists than tree frogs-and with stickier fingers?

It seems dark. Great electrical shovels, like invading space monsters, take apart our mountains. The monstrous machines called international corporations take apart the small farms and family businesses and democracies here and around the world, pushing people into cities and into powerless poverty, our global ecosystem and survival be damned. The great middle class employers like General Motors are purposely bankrupted by a behind-the-scenes elite so that manufacturing might move to more profitable lands without union and legal protections for human beings. The air is filled with warming poisons. Any attempt by the people to organize or even fairly vote is opposed and dismantled. Dark times. The government is now tracking our calls and putting barbed wire around us when we gather together as free men and women. A slave society, prison industries, yellow and black skies, great manipulations to kill off whole problem populations. A monstrous earth is the vision we can now im! agine because, in fact, the great war between humans and the tumorous corporate monsters we let loose is raging. You will see in your lifetimes the outcome.

If we can learn something useful from nature in this battle, it is this: lemmings don't get to vote. Lemmings, these days, only get to watch Fox News. They don't have a chance, in other words. We can't win this battle from inside the pack.

Strategically, I can imagine two possible outcomes for this battle. One is dark and one is bright...