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moss May 3, 2017 10:15:13
Replying to thesweetcheat

Well I read the Road to Wigan Pier many, many years ago. There was E.P. Thompson - The making of The English Working Class, and Massingham - Prophecy of Famine. Social history books that applied to their times, today Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything and Paul Mason - Post Capitalism and then there is Owen Jones on - The Establishment. Gosh that Mason is difficult to read!
The long view of history, says that it will all change, chaos is the best arbiter of that, one of the problems stem from the fact that there are just too many of us humans around, though others would argue against it. I am with David Attenborough on this. Until you can stop people from aspiring to better cars, bigger houses, and maybe larger capital from their houses they have invested in then perhaps it will be fairer. And here I quote Wendell Berry

"In keeping with our unrestrained consumptiveness, the commonly accepted accepted basis of our present economony is the fantastical possibility growth, limitless wants, limitless wealth, limitless natural resouces, limitless energy and limitless debt. The world ending fire of industrial fundamentalism may already be burning"....

Anyone here for 'de-growth?'

E Ethericat
Ethericat May 3, 2017 10:57:49
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Anyone here for 'de-growth?'
Considering it's the most vital and urgent issue facing us aside from possible impending global war, you can count me in. It's the endangered elephant in the room that dares challenge the vested economic interests of the neo lib/con political-corporate elite. Large sections of the public prefer a head in the sand approach, or a sympathetic 'what-can-you-do-eh?'shrug, and a media that largely toes the general line or prevaricates. There is no impartiality. FUCK IMPARTIALITY. The satanic blatherings of the globalist gimps deserve no quarter on this. Modern humanity has been seduced by mass consumerism, and the me first culture of entitlement. Left/Right both utterly shameless and in on the act. Sock puppets of the elite. If we don't wise up devastation will force it on us, and you know what the irony is? These same corporations will smell where the new money is, some already are - ecology, but it may well be too late. In the global insanity of Kali Yuga, I'm still genuinely convinced that humanity and the planet will turn the corner, but the journey to that point will be catastrophic.

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

Here's Jane Goodall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JLvIxdbjQ