Listen to a reading of this article: "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.
Have always had a problem with capitalism, even when I was much younger. Could not understand why until I got older and started digging into the real history of our current economic model. And it is killing us and the planet, despite what anyone says. The dystopian results speak for themselves for anyone with an expanded awareness. It is now a question of can enough people wake up in time to stop the madness? We will see. No one can say we live in uninteresting times...
Blaming capitalism for common human behavior is lazy.
Any species that continues to produce ina closed system will eventually pollute its environment to the point of degradation and colony collapse. Did you never take basic biology and grow a yeast culture in a petri dish and watch as the colony consumed all the available energy, massively overproducing until it consumed all the food and poisoned the dish ?
Were the yeast cells capitalist ?
In the 70s I recall helping to cull an out of control rabbit population, between the ranchers and the environmentalists they removed the predators from the environment which allowed an unrestrained rabbit population to do the same thing the yeast did, eat all the food, pollute their environment and end up sick and dying.
Were the rabbits capitalists ?
The point is that humans are just another species of animal following the same pattern. When low cost energy is available we overproduce just like any other animal. It has little or nothing to do with the economic system in play and everything to do with the cost of acquiring energy.
"Expansion of consciousness" is the solution, but how to achieve it? It's not going to happen the easy way, one person at a time, because time is too short and we are too inclined to complacency. But it may happen when we're hungry and cold in the darkness we seem so determined to bring on ourselves. Without ever asking the people of Germany, the German foreign minister donned sackcloth and ashes (maybe not?) and proclaimed that Germany had to take the economic hit so Ukraine would win the war. Wall-to-wall lies. This enforced austerity is a war being fought in the interests of the 1%, .1% , .01% on down the line of the shadow state, who plan to take over the assets of the thousands of failed businesses. Got a better explanation, anybody? And it is this lot responsible for the rapine and razing of nature, the maximum profit lot, who would sell their own grandmothers, and in fact have managed to make seniors a profitable enterprise: thousands were sacrificed during Covid, but there's always more where they came from. This lot is profane and demonic, and nothing is sacred to them, but money. Don't wait for their expanded consciousness.: it ain't coming anytime soon.
You write of the effectiveness of psychedelics, which brings to mind psilocybin, which brings to mind the topic (see "Entangled Life") of fungi pharmacologically seizing control of animal behavior (e.g., ants & zombie fungi). In like manner the bastions of Capitalist consumption , from fashionistas to pharmacistas to industrialistas have zombied the human mind to the endless semi-covert examples of ecocide all around us. And if you count all the reproductive-disruption of estrogen-mimics and other hormone-mimics and hormone-antagonists released by criminal corporations into soil and water, you'd be inclined to think "genocide." Hence, I understand that view.
We're not going to make it, Caitlin. The problem is too big and the will too little, period. All we can do is our own little part and hang on for the rest of our personal little ride through the time we have here. I can only suppose we missed our opportunities when Henry A. Wallace was replaced by the democrats, and JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcom were taken out of play. Perhaps people like John Lennon and others as well. Stick a fork in it...we're done.
There are big misconceptions about what capitalism is and this article shows it.
Capitalism is the natural result of free economic interaction among humans. Even in communism there is capitalism (black markets).
Our current system, however, is not capitalism. It is an oligarchy fueled by the fact that out money is broken. A small cartel of central bankers, bankers and politicians took over the monetary supply from the people to feed their greed.
The necessary result of this is inflation. With inflation over time preference rises. When our money is worse less tomorrow, we overconsume and use other investments (e.g. housing) as money, because it holds its value better. This leads to global destruction of ecosystems.
To fix these issues, and also issues of wealth inequality, we need to take away the right to print money from the elites, and return to a sound monetary standard which humans strived on for centuries.
Bitcoin is the separation of money and the state. It could bring along a new renaissance, just like the separation of the church and the state did, lifting up the human race and protecting our planet.
I knew I was in trouble when I was a kid when it came to capitalism. I kept asking "Why?" all the time whenever people tried to explain to me how capitalism worked. "People have to keep making cars because people will want to keep buying them because they make money from making the cars," I was told. I had the audacity to ask "Why would anyone need to keep buying cars if they already have a perfectly good one? You wouldn't make bad cars that needed replacing or else you wouldn't be in business for very long." Adults would just give me a blank share and tell me to shut up. Yeah, I knew I didn't belong in this capitalist society at that very moment. I had to turn on the lights and get the hell out.
Whatever happened to the word "progressive"? We on the far left were driven back to using it after "liberal" became another descriptor for "compliant company shill." (Listen to Phil Ochs' song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" on YouTube. Apparently the change to the meaning of "liberal" took place some time in the 1970s.)
Now "progressive" has followed "liberal" down the capitalist rat hole.
We'll have to come up with yet another word for who we are. "Hippy," anyone? They'll never steal that from us.
The UFO material is fascinating and I agree, deserves attention. I'm not ready (yet) to assign it as just another pentagon conspiracy to garner more money for the MIC - partially because the MIC so far, gets whatever funding it wants from the US corrupted government - in fact, it gets even more than it wants yearly. Although, at the same time, I wouldn't put it past the pentagon/deep state to propagandize the American people with yet another fake threat - to militarize the nation even more than it already is. Which is pretty nuts.
However, the 2004 Nimitz UFO incident - was a kind of heads up for me personally. Before that incident became pretty well known - I was inclined to dismiss all UFO stories as more folklore than possibly real. But that 2004 Nimitz encounter - is like, wow - you have several trained USN pilots reporting not only visually but instrumentally these objects, along with different technological state-of-the-art radar platforms on the Nimitz and other support ships *also* reporting these objects, and then of course you have the actual video recordings along with voice reactions from the pilots themselves. Post interviews with the several of the pilots (not just one, so multiple confirmations) also have been pretty convincing (at least to me). Again, still *might* be an elaborate plot - but the UFO story at least for me, was more convincing than those I've seen in the past.
If these objects are really of alien origin, they most likely are not actually manned - but some kind of probes - given the speed and dynamics that have been recorded - no living biological organism could likely survive in them. But who knows, given the age of our own civilization - and the calculated possible ago of other possible intelligent species (just in our own galaxy) it is far more likely that there are species out there that are far more advanced than we are - by 100s of thousands of years. So who knows what kind of technology some other species might have in 100 thousand years. Inter-dimensional space travel? Anti-gravity machines? Etc.
On the other hand, why all the hokey pokey? Why not just introduce themselves to the human race? Or is the human race just a bunch of observable ants to them?
In any case, an interesting mystery. I remain still on the fence until actual communication is established. I wonder if it will happen in our life time, or given Fermi's Paradox, we really are just all alone in this vast space? If so, it would be an awful waste of space.
"No model where human behavior remains driven by profit can address the problem that ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable." This is an assertion without evidence.
Caitlin might want to consider the 470,000,000 people killed by the CCP, not to mention the 20 to 60M people killed by Stalin. I understand why people get frustrated with monopolists like Bill Gates, and sociopaths like Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, and their love of ESG, which is starving millions, and making fuel unaffordable for hundreds of millions of Europeans. But you can't endorse communism without explaining how--for the first time ever!--your solution is going to be different.
Finally, if you want to attain higher consciousness, why don't you start listening to the videos at the Academy of Ideas? Or why don't you enter Jungian analysis? Or why don't you return to your faith? Any of these would be a start, and by no means, the end.
Here's what's great about Caitlin: her ability to see through propaganda. But that great ability needs to also be directed at her own writing, because she tends to be very dogmatic. I listen to Biden and all I hear is assert, assert, assert. That's very annoying. There is no need to be that way.
Weaponizing space it is. Not content with being and having been the worlds biggest polluter since the Industrial Revolution and unwilling to be displaced from that lofty perch, America has in its sights the corruption of the moon, and Mars. Now that’s even loftier. Should we cheer for failure of the massive moon bound rocket?
The main unexpectedly disappointing development in the last two years for me has been the enthusiastic adoption of the supine scratch-my-tummy posture by the EU. The invasion of Afghanistan by NATO forces without a soupçon of regret or soul-searching already had expressed it eloquently but I wasn’t listening.
I'm not sure what they are up to with the UFO narrative, but I bet dollars to doughnuts they are preparing to use it against us sometime in the future.
Have always had a problem with capitalism, even when I was much younger. Could not understand why until I got older and started digging into the real history of our current economic model. And it is killing us and the planet, despite what anyone says. The dystopian results speak for themselves for anyone with an expanded awareness. It is now a question of can enough people wake up in time to stop the madness? We will see. No one can say we live in uninteresting times...
Blaming capitalism for common human behavior is lazy.
Any species that continues to produce ina closed system will eventually pollute its environment to the point of degradation and colony collapse. Did you never take basic biology and grow a yeast culture in a petri dish and watch as the colony consumed all the available energy, massively overproducing until it consumed all the food and poisoned the dish ?
Were the yeast cells capitalist ?
In the 70s I recall helping to cull an out of control rabbit population, between the ranchers and the environmentalists they removed the predators from the environment which allowed an unrestrained rabbit population to do the same thing the yeast did, eat all the food, pollute their environment and end up sick and dying.
Were the rabbits capitalists ?
The point is that humans are just another species of animal following the same pattern. When low cost energy is available we overproduce just like any other animal. It has little or nothing to do with the economic system in play and everything to do with the cost of acquiring energy.
"Expansion of consciousness" is the solution, but how to achieve it? It's not going to happen the easy way, one person at a time, because time is too short and we are too inclined to complacency. But it may happen when we're hungry and cold in the darkness we seem so determined to bring on ourselves. Without ever asking the people of Germany, the German foreign minister donned sackcloth and ashes (maybe not?) and proclaimed that Germany had to take the economic hit so Ukraine would win the war. Wall-to-wall lies. This enforced austerity is a war being fought in the interests of the 1%, .1% , .01% on down the line of the shadow state, who plan to take over the assets of the thousands of failed businesses. Got a better explanation, anybody? And it is this lot responsible for the rapine and razing of nature, the maximum profit lot, who would sell their own grandmothers, and in fact have managed to make seniors a profitable enterprise: thousands were sacrificed during Covid, but there's always more where they came from. This lot is profane and demonic, and nothing is sacred to them, but money. Don't wait for their expanded consciousness.: it ain't coming anytime soon.
You write of the effectiveness of psychedelics, which brings to mind psilocybin, which brings to mind the topic (see "Entangled Life") of fungi pharmacologically seizing control of animal behavior (e.g., ants & zombie fungi). In like manner the bastions of Capitalist consumption , from fashionistas to pharmacistas to industrialistas have zombied the human mind to the endless semi-covert examples of ecocide all around us. And if you count all the reproductive-disruption of estrogen-mimics and other hormone-mimics and hormone-antagonists released by criminal corporations into soil and water, you'd be inclined to think "genocide." Hence, I understand that view.
I enjoyed reading this post. Thanks.
What you think is capitalism is crony capitalism which currently is technocommunism.
What system would you prefer?
True anarchy and patches would work once this fake capitalism anti-free market system is replaced.
Spot on as usual. Better than my morning coffee, which is the best coffee on this planet.
We're not going to make it, Caitlin. The problem is too big and the will too little, period. All we can do is our own little part and hang on for the rest of our personal little ride through the time we have here. I can only suppose we missed our opportunities when Henry A. Wallace was replaced by the democrats, and JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcom were taken out of play. Perhaps people like John Lennon and others as well. Stick a fork in it...we're done.
There are big misconceptions about what capitalism is and this article shows it.
Capitalism is the natural result of free economic interaction among humans. Even in communism there is capitalism (black markets).
Our current system, however, is not capitalism. It is an oligarchy fueled by the fact that out money is broken. A small cartel of central bankers, bankers and politicians took over the monetary supply from the people to feed their greed.
The necessary result of this is inflation. With inflation over time preference rises. When our money is worse less tomorrow, we overconsume and use other investments (e.g. housing) as money, because it holds its value better. This leads to global destruction of ecosystems.
To fix these issues, and also issues of wealth inequality, we need to take away the right to print money from the elites, and return to a sound monetary standard which humans strived on for centuries.
Bitcoin is the separation of money and the state. It could bring along a new renaissance, just like the separation of the church and the state did, lifting up the human race and protecting our planet.
I knew I was in trouble when I was a kid when it came to capitalism. I kept asking "Why?" all the time whenever people tried to explain to me how capitalism worked. "People have to keep making cars because people will want to keep buying them because they make money from making the cars," I was told. I had the audacity to ask "Why would anyone need to keep buying cars if they already have a perfectly good one? You wouldn't make bad cars that needed replacing or else you wouldn't be in business for very long." Adults would just give me a blank share and tell me to shut up. Yeah, I knew I didn't belong in this capitalist society at that very moment. I had to turn on the lights and get the hell out.
Whatever happened to the word "progressive"? We on the far left were driven back to using it after "liberal" became another descriptor for "compliant company shill." (Listen to Phil Ochs' song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" on YouTube. Apparently the change to the meaning of "liberal" took place some time in the 1970s.)
Now "progressive" has followed "liberal" down the capitalist rat hole.
We'll have to come up with yet another word for who we are. "Hippy," anyone? They'll never steal that from us.
The UFO material is fascinating and I agree, deserves attention. I'm not ready (yet) to assign it as just another pentagon conspiracy to garner more money for the MIC - partially because the MIC so far, gets whatever funding it wants from the US corrupted government - in fact, it gets even more than it wants yearly. Although, at the same time, I wouldn't put it past the pentagon/deep state to propagandize the American people with yet another fake threat - to militarize the nation even more than it already is. Which is pretty nuts.
However, the 2004 Nimitz UFO incident - was a kind of heads up for me personally. Before that incident became pretty well known - I was inclined to dismiss all UFO stories as more folklore than possibly real. But that 2004 Nimitz encounter - is like, wow - you have several trained USN pilots reporting not only visually but instrumentally these objects, along with different technological state-of-the-art radar platforms on the Nimitz and other support ships *also* reporting these objects, and then of course you have the actual video recordings along with voice reactions from the pilots themselves. Post interviews with the several of the pilots (not just one, so multiple confirmations) also have been pretty convincing (at least to me). Again, still *might* be an elaborate plot - but the UFO story at least for me, was more convincing than those I've seen in the past.
If these objects are really of alien origin, they most likely are not actually manned - but some kind of probes - given the speed and dynamics that have been recorded - no living biological organism could likely survive in them. But who knows, given the age of our own civilization - and the calculated possible ago of other possible intelligent species (just in our own galaxy) it is far more likely that there are species out there that are far more advanced than we are - by 100s of thousands of years. So who knows what kind of technology some other species might have in 100 thousand years. Inter-dimensional space travel? Anti-gravity machines? Etc.
On the other hand, why all the hokey pokey? Why not just introduce themselves to the human race? Or is the human race just a bunch of observable ants to them?
In any case, an interesting mystery. I remain still on the fence until actual communication is established. I wonder if it will happen in our life time, or given Fermi's Paradox, we really are just all alone in this vast space? If so, it would be an awful waste of space.
"No model where human behavior remains driven by profit can address the problem that ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable." This is an assertion without evidence.
Caitlin might want to consider the 470,000,000 people killed by the CCP, not to mention the 20 to 60M people killed by Stalin. I understand why people get frustrated with monopolists like Bill Gates, and sociopaths like Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, and their love of ESG, which is starving millions, and making fuel unaffordable for hundreds of millions of Europeans. But you can't endorse communism without explaining how--for the first time ever!--your solution is going to be different.
Finally, if you want to attain higher consciousness, why don't you start listening to the videos at the Academy of Ideas? Or why don't you enter Jungian analysis? Or why don't you return to your faith? Any of these would be a start, and by no means, the end.
Here's what's great about Caitlin: her ability to see through propaganda. But that great ability needs to also be directed at her own writing, because she tends to be very dogmatic. I listen to Biden and all I hear is assert, assert, assert. That's very annoying. There is no need to be that way.
Weaponizing space it is. Not content with being and having been the worlds biggest polluter since the Industrial Revolution and unwilling to be displaced from that lofty perch, America has in its sights the corruption of the moon, and Mars. Now that’s even loftier. Should we cheer for failure of the massive moon bound rocket?
The main unexpectedly disappointing development in the last two years for me has been the enthusiastic adoption of the supine scratch-my-tummy posture by the EU. The invasion of Afghanistan by NATO forces without a soupçon of regret or soul-searching already had expressed it eloquently but I wasn’t listening.
I'm not sure what they are up to with the UFO narrative, but I bet dollars to doughnuts they are preparing to use it against us sometime in the future.
looking into UFO;s is more important than looking into the plandemic mandatory lockdowns and clot shots....got it...https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/exclusive-proof-that-the-top-israeli?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email