26-01-2010, 09:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-01-2010, 09:51 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
When I say 'take it back'....I don't want what America 'was'; I want what America could be...its promise.....[in all senses of the word]. I want it with the wisdom of the Native Americans and a HUGE apology to them and recognition of the genocide and imperialism, slavery, torture and other horrors we visit[ed] upon them. I want equality and justice and peace and for people to understand [and live] knowing that capitalism is in direct opposition to democracy and a whole new set of paradigms must be set up to replace the old ones that failed [I'm being kind]. I want the beauty of the land and the People to prosper and be happy - not fat zombies believing in the synthetic propaganda, history, values. Real education and extending a friendly and equal hand to all others - be they other humans or other species. Nothing like America ever was - but what it could have been and still [just] can be. If not....it will not be...soon...nor will anything much else be living...and the transition will not be 'pretty'....but it will be poetic justice, perhaps cosmic justice given the way the majority have played ostrich for all too long. An end to the domination model and a change to the cooperation model; ecocentric not anthropocentric thinking and acting; worship of the feminine wisdom that was suppressed and dominated by men [along with the domination of just about everything some 15,000 years ago - read Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade]; an end to wars and conflicts; living as if life mattered - all life; It is not going to be an easy task.......so roll up your sleeves and lets get going....time is short, the task gargantuan, the stakes ultimate. Jensen's ideas of dismantling of the worst of 'civilization' also resonates with me. And if most don't want to follow, I personally want to find some spot to declare free of the other tyrannies, to live out the last few of my years, with a few sane and moral persons. 
hakehands:
hakehands:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass