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nebrisAug. 25th, 2012
"When I say 'time's a'wasting'...well, look at what is going on around you. We are right now in the middle of Collapse...
This is not a “Mad Max” scenario, with masked barbarians roaming the wastelands, though we will get some of that sooner or later...
It's the daily erosion of the general quality of life; government services [police, fire, sanitation] strangled by 'austerity', bad roads that never get repaired, food of lower quality getting more expensive, etc. Look around, the list is endless...
It's a steady increase in social and political violence, both verbal and physical; ever more hateful rhetoric, demonizing 'the other', individual brutality, spree killing, rising numbers of murder/suicides...
It's each of you working harder and longer [if you're lucky enough to have employment] for less and less merely to survive...
It's a future of endlessly rising energy costs that strangle the economy day after day no matter what we do...
It's Climate Change; increasingly bad droughts, violent storms and blasting heat...
It's the Powers That Be [The Monied Interests, etc] hoping to 'ride this out' and hoarding as much as they can to stave off their inevitable fall as long as they can and blocking nearly all possible solutions in the process because of the fear that said solutions will cut into their power...which they most assuredly would.
And then there is The War on Women...
Naomi Wolf stated it quite succinctly, "It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social control." The Powers That Be need those 'forces of reaction', Christian Fundamentalists, White Nativists and all the other fearful/hateful low information voters of both genders, to hold onto power. And Women's Rights are a direct threat to that agenda.
All the gains from of Second Wave Feminism in the '70's and 80's that had been thought safe are now under attack and in many cases are being rolled back. This is a function of Patriarchy, the need to control women on the most basic level, as Reproductive Beings. And to do this women must be hemmed in socially and legally.
Therefore Collapse is not some abstract issue for you, my Sisters. It is about the type of future that you will have. It is unfolding as you read these words. And if you don't Get Busy, it will be more of the same Male Dominated crap you already have to deal with, only increasingly so and this time without any recourse."
..here is the thing in its entirety..
"When I say 'time's a'wasting'...well, look at what is going on around you. We are right now in the middle of Collapse...
This is not a “Mad Max” scenario, with masked barbarians roaming the wastelands, though we will get some of that sooner or later...
It's the daily erosion of the general quality of life; government services [police, fire, sanitation] strangled by 'austerity', bad roads that never get repaired, food of lower quality getting more expensive, etc. Look around, the list is endless...
It's a steady increase in social and political violence, both verbal and physical; ever more hateful rhetoric, demonizing 'the other', individual brutality, spree killing, rising numbers of murder/suicides...
It's each of you working harder and longer [if you're lucky enough to have employment] for less and less merely to survive...
It's a future of endlessly rising energy costs that strangle the economy day after day no matter what we do...
It's Climate Change; increasingly bad droughts, violent storms and blasting heat...
It's the Powers That Be [The Monied Interests, etc] hoping to 'ride this out' and hoarding as much as they can to stave off their inevitable fall as long as they can and blocking nearly all possible solutions in the process because of the fear that said solutions will cut into their power...which they most assuredly would.
And then there is The War on Women...
Naomi Wolf stated it quite succinctly, "It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social control." The Powers That Be need those 'forces of reaction', Christian Fundamentalists, White Nativists and all the other fearful/hateful low information voters of both genders, to hold onto power. And Women's Rights are a direct threat to that agenda.
All the gains from of Second Wave Feminism in the '70's and 80's that had been thought safe are now under attack and in many cases are being rolled back. This is a function of Patriarchy, the need to control women on the most basic level, as Reproductive Beings. And to do this women must be hemmed in socially and legally.
Therefore Collapse is not some abstract issue for you, my Sisters. It is about the type of future that you will have. It is unfolding as you read these words. And if you don't Get Busy, it will be more of the same Male Dominated crap you already have to deal with, only increasingly so and this time without any recourse."
..here is the thing in its entirety..