Good stuff written! I have been wondering what 'we the people' worldwide can do about the blatant corporate takeover of governments, finances, resources, media, and the military, and I have been frightened for awhile about the world cartel that has been monstrously growing and gobbling up everything.
I don't know about anyone else, but here in the USA, most Americans have been sleepwalking (including me) for far too long, or have been down and demoralized about the sickening situations here and abroad, and I'm not just speaking economics. Listening to news about how many other countries are having these huge economic difficulties and going bankrupt is nauseating and sad. We're watching the dominoes fall on countless levels...things are way more dire and interconnected worldwide, on so many more levels than we can know. The short term and long term ramifications of this interconnectedness are hideously chilling in many more ways than economic, unless people can and will unite to stop it. But what to do, and how to do it? Some of the responsibility, especially for energy, the environment, and consumerism, has to rest on the people. Boycotts and putting pressure on the corporations to do the will of the people is one way to get corporate attention. If nobody's buying, they do pay attention and lower prices. We don't have a manufacturing economy anymore in America. Personally, I ignore the whole consumer culture as much as possible, except of course, computing and the internet! After watching the video "the story of stuff" it is beyond sickening. I highly suggest seeing it. She does have a more upbeat section at the end on what to do.
The government and the media tell everyone to "shop shop shop" to fix the economy. That is about the WORST thing we can be doing. It will not help anything and will make us all much poorer and even more inclined to go into debt.
Economic and media control of the people is the way that a lot of the people are kept demoralized and afraid, and people's spirits kept low, desperate, traumatized, apathetic, cynical, and fatalistic. So I'm wondering a lot, every day... what can we do? What will we do? "They" are not going to do it or fix it for us IMO, not without some "help" in the way of pressure from the 95% of the rest of the people who are sick of being treated as subhuman. It seems the time is ripe for getting off our behinds and saying "NO MORE!" But that, of course, would require hard work and consciousness! Those things are not exactly encouraged or popular here in America; in fact, I believe consciousness and questioning of how things are done are now "illegal".
I wonder, especially here in the U.S, if people will rise into becoming what they can be, as people in times of crisis have it in them to do? Most of the globe has been dealing with far greater problems on whether they have the latest plasma TVs or not, so I know we can do it. Unless as a culture we are just too soft. The type of "toughness" it's going to take is to be willing to be interdependent and work together, rather than against each other. That's why, I guess, I feel such fondness for the global internet community, which I think has the greatest chance to solve the problems that face us in new and creative ways. We can't leave that to the corporations!
The problem is, it's all so big everywhere you look. And so corrupt.
I can't and won't even talk about war in this post; it's just too awful to contemplate more brutality and insanity. I am ashamed I didn't do more before. Thanks for letting me rant.
