These are the last hours on the deck of the Titanic, and the chamber orchestra is now playing "Nearer My God To Thee" as the ship continues to take on barrels of water per second, and all but one or two lifeboats have been filled to capacity and launched into the open seas of escape from the capsizing horror-and with no guarantees that they will survive. Throngs of the doomed are drowning in the steerage compartments below-those indigent, third-class, "racially impure" masses of humanity that the "first-class", who helped design the "unsinkable" vessel, kept locked away below the decks of obscene privilege and conspicuous consumption. Some say that economic depressions don't affect the poor because they are already poor, but I'm certain that a black mother in the projects who can now give her kids only two meals a day will become acutely aware, as will her children, when she can only give them one.
But only in America is the definition of insanity lived out with such oblivious impunity. Only in America do we continue to believe that "this time it will be different" in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
Faith in any of the three leading candidates running for the presidency to have the capacity or desire to affect any significant change is nothing less than blatantly illogical and irrational.But one's abdication of critical thinking in the face of the U.S. election charade is neither the most disconnected or the most dangerous course of action. More deadly, in my opinion, is the failure to grasp the reality that not only the empire but civilization itself has entered a process of irreversible demise. This phenomenon is larger than the onset of a Second Great Depression. It's even larger and more momentous than the reality of a cartel of criminals who engineered a mortgage meltdown, the repercussions of which will be reverberating throughout the global economy indefinitely. As I have stated repeatedly, what is unfolding is absolutely unprecedented and is juxtaposed with the equally dire realities of climate chaos and Peak Oil. In their attempts to make sense of these momentous realities, New Age devotees tout the significance of 2012, and the Christian right insists that the rapture is imminent. Equally sychophantic are those who argue that while the current challenges are unprecedented, so is the technology which can alleviate them. Pervading all three groups is a profound disconnect from ecological, scientific, and human reality.
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In a nutshell, there are three realities that every reader of these words must prepare to deal with: Food, fuel, and fascism.
So I won't leave you with my advice but rather ask you a number of questions. My questions to you, dear reader, are these: What are you doing to prepare for the "Three F's"? What keeps you hooked to the U.S. election charade, even when a part of you knows it is a charade? Why do you choose to put your energy there rather than putting it into survival? What do you fear would happen if you let go of your "hope" and stopped trusting an electoral process manufactured from start to finish by empire? What might happen if you stopped engaging in that process and started focusing instead on creating options?
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