Reform or Revolution?

[DeSwiss]

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- You can't fix (or reform) a system (Capitalism) that was designed from the start to rob people, so that it doesn't rob them anymore. It's time for a new paradigm.

http://nocureforthat.weebly.com/6/post/2011/03/michael-moore-america-is-not-broke.html">America is not broke.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.

Today just 400 Americans http://www.alternet.org/economy/149918/9_pictures_that_expose_this_country%27s_obscene_division_of_wealth/">have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have more loot, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true.

http://nocureforthat.weebly.com/6/post/2011/03/michael-moore-america-is-not-broke.html">MORE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNuSEZ8CDw&feature=player_embedded">VIDEO

[Newest Reality]

1. Can we make an individual and collective

shift from the old, ingrained, rugged individualist paradigm?

You know, that pick yourself up by your bootstraps, sorta' Western Zen paradox? Work hard, play by the rules, do the right thing and work even harder and you too can make it, live the good life, even be wealthy.

Oh, and there were several examples of the "self-made", (who relied on exploiting the labor and talent of many, many others) held up high for all to see. The funny thing is that that inculcated, financial ideology worked exactly like pyramid schemes, (like selling vitamins or getting referrals) in that they hold-up the founders or early entrants as examples of just how great the scheme will work for you if you are loyal, persistent and make the sacrifices implied.

Well, now it is time to shift that paradigm in our own perspectives and maps of reality. While it is one thing to respect ownership, (even when you are being owned?) and property, it is another thing to pay more attention to the source of wealth and just who is involved in its creation and accumulation.

The wealth of the few did not come out of thin air. It is either a part of their inheritance of previous exploitations or the result of having power over others and exploiting profits from others. That, in turn concentrates more power in the hands of those who own and control.

In that case, that wealth and power came from us. It is, in part ours. We are not reaping anything in the way of profits upon our personal investments in the general sense. Yet, we, (when our government works FOR us) pay for and provide the infrastructure labor and purchasing power that enables multinational corporations to exist and profit.

This equation is out of balance now and we all know that the stakes are getting so very high that almost everything about our collective future rests in the balance.

[DeSwiss]

3. Collective disengagement from the existing system.

- It's the only "peaceful" way.....

[Newest Reality]

5. That's right on spot!

I would have gone into that, (and it deserves to be elucidated on) however, my reply would have been a full-length article.

Start somewhere, but start. Start small, but get going. Change your life in ways that remove power and wealth from the current system and put it into something else; something new, progressive and sustainable.

The next twenty years will not resemble that last twenty. So, why not help to shape those years?

[drokhole]

2. "In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model

...You create a new model and make the old one obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

[DeSwiss]

4. Exactly.

http://thevenusproject.com/">The Venus Project