31-08-2010, 09:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 31-08-2010, 09:55 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Just watched the film of Collapse. Aside from his endless smoking while being interviewed, and his [slight] downplaying of the importance of other living things [other than humans] surviving, I'd say he is pretty much on the mark...and a very sad and depressing reality he paints of the present and immediate future. Meanwhile the TV-blind, Societally-blind, Brainwashed-blind, etc. go on thinking things will soon be back to normal. What we all remember as how life was is gone forever. The only question is what new world we will contruct, if any..... :afraid: It is a film worth seeing, IMO. I slightly prefer Life At The End Of Empire - but they are on the same theme, just having slightly different points of attack. The 'bad-guys' have really destroyed us...but the human population, as a group, have allowed this to happen [for the most part] over the centuries and certainly in the USA they just layed down and begged to be raped in every sense of the term..... Now comes the accounting for not having paid attention.... Gonna be a very rough ride, worldwide for the rest of our lives and likely that of the children alive now. The best we can do is get rid of just about all of the 'leaders' - be they polical, financial, other.....they are the problem and can not be any of the solution. New paradigms are called for - so far from the current one - few can even concieve of it, yet. YUP! We're all ****ed - how one prepares and responds will determine how much. :afraid:
"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