Wednesday, April 06, 2005

 

We're doomed unless we act

So nobody is ready to act because frankly it just isnt that bad yet here. Its actually pretty good for most people. You know, food, water, shelter, all these things can be obtained fairly easily, though we usually do have to work hard to keep them coming. But what if all that changes? We're lucky to have stability now but the corporations and governments of the world are contributing to an instability for the working class people and eventually we wont have anything left. The corpos will have taken it all and claimed its theirs to sell back to us. Man I need to quit smoking pot so I can figure this out more solidy, but frankly I'm a little scared to. What I figure though is that the existing systems of governance and money (capitalism is part of the money system) are corrupted beyond repair, they can't be fixed from within their frameworks and something new needs to start. I cant do it by myself. I dont know even where to begin. Part of me thinks the only way for a new civilization to rise is by firmly planting roots somewhere and defending those roots at all costs. So that means staking out a good sizeable chunk of seemingly unused land and basically setting up shop. Grow crops, mine for minerals, and start a new country. And that new country within a country needs to be defended because you know the corpos wont stand for any of their land which they lay a claim to being simply taken over by a bunch of landless hippies. So we'll need to defend our newly claimed turn so that we can make improvements to the land and have the stability of being able to make use of those improvements for our livelyhoods. The shrub once talked about his political capital he needed to spend around the US presidential selection time -- well maybe we need social capital. A system of capitalism where its the people, not the big moneylenders, who actually decide what jobs are worth doing and then provide the incentive to get those jobs done. Capital based on reputation and real work of value.

But to defend an enclave like this against outside agressors we'll have to take up arms. I propose 3 month tours of duty followed by 9 months of living life and being a productive member of the community. If you act like a moron, hurt people, are too selfish, or otherwise do things that would justifiably result in some kind of punishment, then the community would need to decide to banish you or not. Other than that, people would do what they wanted and everyone's deeds would be open to scrutiny.

I'm sick of working for some corporation within the crooked framework of capitalism. I could try to run my own show, but then I'd just be more a part of the problem.

Perhaps some sabotage is the way to get things going. Take out telecom switches. Prevent trains from running. Stop the couriers. Stop the brinks trucks. Stop everything. Shut it down.

Well we all know its going to get a lot worse before it gets any better, so perhaps we can help it along. Thats why I'm always so upbeat about the price of oil rising or the US dollar tanking. The sooner this shit is over with the sooner we can more to our bright green future, but its going to be a tough road and it could be hard surviving.

Comments:

It's strange, but eco-terrorism is a career path I have considered for a long time. Today's society has so many precisely made gears and cogs that it would take little to throw the whole system into disarray. Walk into a major metropolitan area during rush-hour with some friends; push all the shopping carts from a local store into the middle of an intersection. The effects will be felt for hours. Park your car in the middle of an important on ramp for a highway, get out and walk away (probably passing cars as you do so). Heck, take a bunch of girls, stand them topless on a highway overpass with signs in their hands, the traffic snarls will ensnare the city.

We are most definitely on the edge of the precipice, the only question is what will push us off, our own greed or the actions of a specific group.
 
Cool :) Something specific that I wanted to do was orchestrate a campaign to take out the hwy 407 toll collection abilities. Well, at least for non-transponder people (transponder people are suckers anyways -- if you want to drive on that thing regularly you need a servo setup that flips your license plate over at the press of a button) who are billed by the system taking snaps of your license plate when you come on and go off.

What I want to do is very very simple and should be pretty effective until they can dispatch someone to clean it up -- and can be done on the cheap. Thats right, I'm talking paint balls. Cover the camera lenses with paintball paint! But of course we'd have to take out all the on/off ramp sensors for any on/off ramps that are to be travelled, since if you end up having only one end of your trip snapped by the system, it'll just assume that you travelled as far as you could have on the thing.
 
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