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Handling the Truth 09/15/2016 by Eniko Nolan
Now that we’ve had our eyes further opened by the presidential primaries to the EXTENT of corruption within our government, we understand that we need to actually DEAL with this current political reality somehow, or we’re all going to see our living standards decline, our privacy and freedom of speech stifled, and our hearts and psyche shattered. This is the truth. We can’t keep going on like this.
We’re being fucked. We’ve BEEN fucked. We look at history and see all the examples of societies that have been fucked like this by their governments and private industry colluding against the populace in a fascist affair, and they’ve fallen. Without a revolution and renewal, they exist merely in memory. Either they’re gone completely or they’re third world, or a theocratic tyranny where human rights are non-existent while corruption and poverty rampant. We watch it happening elsewhere in real time as we scroll past it until it directly affects us. It won’t be long though. And we see right before our eyes, happening now, within a few generations, that our own society is slipping dangerously in that direction. We don’t want that, and WE are not going to accept that right?! Except we already are. We already are that complacent boiled frog, with one LAST miniscule chance to gather its energy and make the life-saving leap. Too apathetic or distracted to leap now, and that complacency will be our demise. If we are going to do something, this would be the time.
So WHAT are we gonna do? CAN we do something about it? Have we let it go so far that it’s too late to redirect? Will we lose our freedoms? Will we come to know water shortage and famine? Are we going to witness WW3? Will we cease to be outraged by injustice and become numb to others suffering? Are we going to die because of natural disaster brought on by climate change first anyway? Am I being too paranoid? Based on the evidence, I don’t think so. I feel like we’re trying to handle a ball of fire …we drop it we die, we hold it we burn. We think of a way to put it out somehow, perhaps we survive. But we can’t expect the fire to subdue itself for our benefit. The fire will burn until it has nothing left to consume. It may already be too extreme to put out. Can we hold the burning world with one hand while we find the elusive extinguisher with the other? The extinguisher being our awareness and collective actions that at least keep the all-powerful oligarchy barely at bay. Ideally abolish the entire structure of it, but we don’t have the luxury demanding ideals when survival requires our full attention. They count on that. And unfortunately, it’s also our dollar, or whatever currency we’re buying our oil and gas with. If we keep buying what they’re selling, we destroy ourselves. And we’re continuing to buy it and waste it at a rapid pace. We have little choice in the matter, no way of shedding the shackle of dependence. Alternatives squashed and squandered with red tape and misallocation of our tax money. We’re being forced to add fuel to the fire that’s burning us alive.
But this is finite. Resources will be depleted and then what? Humanity will have to transition to renewables anyway when the traditional fossil fuel resources run out. Every drop of wealth will have been wringed out. Then they’ll find a way to ration the renewables. If we’re still here. If we still have a habitable planet. Because not a single drop of oil or a bubble of natural gas will be left in the fractured earth before the fire will extinguish. Right now all we have are our words, ideas, bodies, our integrity, each other. Against drones, corruption, industry, surveillance systems, injustice. We know the truth. We just don’t seem to know how to handle it.
