Discuss: Calling All Fanatics

Gone to the root on one fell swoop! :-) (sound of two hands clapping…)

That’s the nutshell. So we know the what. Now we come to “how”.

Mike k, been liking what you say for some time. Are there other places you write?

We are a world of followers.  Who leads is who has the world’s attention.  Capitalism is not adult behavior, but no leader will say that in the western world.  Socialism implies ‘growth’ also, and eco-socialism is way too complicated a concept, or word, for the TV-modified mind.  This is the Age of Entertainment, reason’s narcotic.  A world without a recovering monetary system, without energy for heating water, without petroleum for roofing, without daily meat or seafood, without cars, without newspapers, without the internet…. how much can be seriously publicly thought about by leaders?

None of it.  We need a new kind of leadership.  I am tired of savvy exhorters:  Chris Hedges, Korten, Derrick Jensen, Van Jones, Robert Johnson, Jeremy Scahill, Dar Jamail, the broad spectrum….  on and on and on… It is you who have the world’s attention.  I want you all to take office, make a party, make a march in the streets.  YOU folks are the folks with the megaphone.  DO something. 

Why do you wait?

The way out is the way in

The way in is the way out

Either way is hard to find

But you can’t miss it

If you don’t find it

Keep looking

You might have missed it

When you didn’t find it

Because you found it

While you were still

Looking for it

i love Derrick Jensen so much. and i know it’s not about him, or me, it’s about saving our collective lives, stopping the mass murder and terrorizing of so much life, of so so so many lives of all species on our fair shared parent planet. but i do love this guy so much!

as for me, i am one sadly lazy activist who tries to live most moments responsibly and wholistically, very disentangled from the disastrous nightmare web the evil-psycho-sicko bosses and their few billion lacky-consumer-workers contrive.

here in Toronto our brilliant, heroic, beautiful-hearted, rebel youth have been abused by the hundreds to protect the pimps in their selling of our world’s families and communities of all species to the pervert ‘johns’ of big business.

but doncha just love the upswelling in the streets of mass love and participation for a healthier way? 

peace&love;, ira  
goodnight and thanks.

Thanks for sharing Ira.  I have watched with dismay as the Canadian government has lurched to the fascist right.  It is good to hear that there is active resistance to all that.  Derrick Jensen is here to inspire people to actively oppose their “rulers”.

Does it appear to you that we could move toward sustainability in a much more sensible way if we stopped willfully ignoring extant science of human population dynamics; stopped consciously refusing to communicate openly about peer-reviewed evidence of the human overpopulation of Earth? How on Earth do we reasonably address and overcome the human-driven global challenges looming before the human community if top rank scientists with appropriate expertise reject their responsibilities to acknowledge and deny their duties to examine published evidence and report findings?

Professor Emeritus Gary L. Peters and Professor Emeritus Albert A. Bartlett have chosen a different, seldom taken path, one that is morally courageous, because they have broken the silence by speaking out so loudly and clearly while many too many of their outstanding, similarly situated colleagues have remained electively mute.

After 40 years of activism I share Jensen’s frustration that the vast majority of US seem to be too afraid, uncertain, complacent and/or distracted with materialist matters to be effective change agents.  Except for the relative few (like Jensen), people have to have the rug pulled out from under them before they’ll take action and even then, its often in seeking escape, revenge or blame (thus the rise of the tea party). Things may have to get much worse even than BP before they get better, or (as I’m feeling more and more these days), we are simply screwed.  Maybe its time to face that reality. In the words of Wendell Barry…
“Let hopelessness
Shrink us to our proper size.
Without it we are half as large
And the world
Is twice as large. My small
Place grows immense as I walk
Upon it without hope.”

We are not bound to win but we are bound to be true; we are not bound to succeed but we are bound to live up to the light we possess.
-President Barack H. Obama, (quoting former President Abraham Lincoln)

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
-Henri-Frederic Amiel

Speak out as if you were a million voices.
It is silence that kills the world.
-St. Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380