Capitalism Has No Solution To Ecocide: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-09-05 at 02:14:30 )

Capitalism Has No Solution To Ecocide: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible get to just stay in power indefinitely and suffer no meaningful consequences of any kind."-John F Kennedy (paraphrased)

Ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. No possible iteration of capitalism can address this problem. This, in and of itself, is a sufficiently strong argument that capitalism must be abandoned.

No model where human behavior remains driven by profit can address the problem that ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. That is why so many capitalism proponents are reduced to simply pretending that ecocide is not a problem.

Eco-consciousness and anti-capitalism go hand in hand, but the liberals are dominating environmentalist discourse while the commies frequently neglect it. This is a strategic and moral error. This is the strongest argument against capitalism, and it is one which needs to be made.

It can take a while for a principled antiwar leftist to learn that in the big picture they have very little in common with so-called progressives who mostly ignore United States imperialism and just want the empire to forgive their student loans.

The difference between a leftist who opposes capitalism and empire and your average Bernie Sanders progressive is considerably greater than the difference between your average Bernie Sanders progressive and your average MSNBC Clintonite.

None of this means progressives can not be worked with on points of convergence, it just means they are ideologically different and it serves no one to pretend otherwise. The same is true of antiwar right-libertarians. Ultimately there is commonality wherever class interests align.

I am as distrustful as anyone of the new mainstream UFO narratives, but when congress is saying UFOs are a threat that is "expanding exponentially", it probably deserves attention.

I do not know why they are saying it, but they are not saying it for no reason. There is an agenda here, whether it is weaponizing space or running cover for new military technology or just securing more money for the military-industrial complex. I am not willing to commit to any position on what exactly they are up to, but they are clearly up to something.

Not many people from my sector of the political fringe are looking at this, and I think that is partly because there is so much uncertainty and partly because it does not really fit into any of our models for understanding the world. But whatever it is, it is worthy of at least some attention.

The more information that comes out about the effectiveness of psychedelics in treating psychological trauma the more outrageously criminal it looks that these medicines have been suppressed for generations while the world was being destroyed by a highly traumatized species.

We have all had the experience of wanting to change something undesirable about our behavior but not being able to. This happens because the forces driving that behavior are not yet conscious. This is what is happening with the self-destructive behavior of humanity as a whole, too.

There is a misconception in our society that people stop their self-destructive behavior when they apply "willpower", which is really just empty head noises. Actually people change when there is an expansion of consciousness. That is what we are waiting on with the human species too.

That is ultimately why we are destroying our planet despite knowing it is bad for us. We can talk all we want about capitalism, corruption, empire and ecocide, but underneath it all what we are really looking at is the struggle of a thinking species to become a conscious species.

So for me the answer to the "what can we do?" question is usually, expand consciousness. Spread awareness of what is going on in the world, expand our consciousness of what is going on in ourselves, anything you can do to bring awareness to previously unconscious important matters.

And people are already doing this. That is all healthy activism generally is: people working to spread awareness of an important issue. That is also what real journalism is, it is what real political dissent is, and what authentic spirituality is. It is all about expanding awareness.

Working toward a healthy humanity is essentially the task of strolling through the dark hallways of our collective unconscious and flicking on the lights, one by one. It is not easy, but the more lights get switched on the more awake people there will be helping us switch on the rest of them.

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