How clear their blythe disdain for human life which cannot be more evident as the structure of rampant unregulated capitalism uses ever more brutal methods to shore up the empty promises of a system devised to extract resources and labor without conscience and which is loosing its creditability in growing areas of the world as the list of victims pile into a growing mountain of death and terror of their own making.

Exactly what leads us to believe the boots of military or paramilitary terrorism will not be directed on our countrymen and children? It goes beyond fascism into feudalism as the final plans for autocratic rule by the new royalty by the age old evil runs a disparate play for totality to grind any remaining humanity into the bloody mud of OUR planet.

If it is allowed to happen anywhere, it can certainly happen here.

The time is short the threat very real and the criminals very visible in their arrogant greed.

If you love your neighbor, you will engage in mobilization to be ready for the next boot to fall.

Lot's of breathless mologue. Still, by reporting upon the darker side of life is there any room to recognise and support positive structures and institutions. The world used to be overrun with animals. Then it was overrun with men. Now it is overrun with weapons. But day to day people worked on projects and survived and have saved parts of the planet and can come together to save more. Let us not forget that people eat chickens. Let us show the world what a non-violent intifada really looks like, with art, media, music, freedom, friendships, fusion, and renewable energy. Suppose we built companies, employee owned, communist or socialist style. These companies would work as capitalists, as individual companies, but would benefit every employee equally. portions of profits would be allocated to sustainable research, development, and promotions. The company itself, with all employees sharing everything, would be wholly accountable to it's public and it's workers only. However, in the companies constitution, there will be mandates to be the pinnacle of labor, environmental, and ethical standards.

Capitalism, communism, all the isms in the world do not create what we have today. We lack a cohesive lifestyle that is in balance with the planet and each other. You know the problems, good. They've been there since time imemorial and you are no Nostradamus or even I dare say the greatest historian. Neither am I, that's beside the point. The point is there is only gloom and doom in your sentences and your dreams are deferred for shock value. You'd have to be an idiot to agree with the world as it is. A smart man to want to have it change. But a great man if you can physically do something to change it when you talk about it and all the time you're not talking as well. So, leading the sheep with chicken little prophecy is ineffective. Creating solar power homes, sustainable water sources, etc, etc, that is your answer.

I'll say it again and again until everyone, especially the poor, can afford this technology. When hunger is only an option.

But talking about the other, violently engaging him, or it, will not solve anything. The only way to change the world is to be the change right?

So no more isms from you doggy man, just solutions, because you are a good enough analyst to figure some out. And, "let's get together and bitch, " is getting stale.

How refreshing to encounter some analysis.

I have, as you say, been beating this drum not for anyone in particular but to keep the warning bell ringing perhaps discordantly to some and monotonously to others. The threat is all too real if one has, as I have been, involved in some of these weapon projects.

I have offered some proposals to change things, as others have, but hold little hope of seeing them implemented before the dark night of terror closes in and although this may sound to you as a 'chicken little prophecy' maybe perhaps it's because you haven't been paying attention. Or maybe your life experiences haven't brought you into close enough contact with the true nature of evil to sensitize you to its approach.

But thanks for the thought.

Brilliant. Your two posts symbolize the two polarities of the progressive vision today. By my current understanding, you are both right. You both agree, and disagree, with each other. It is in this kind of alchemy that fundamental change happens, and that gives me hope.

This little thread was an oasis in the midst of all the spiteful intellectual detritus flying around here.