Only in America is the Definition of Insanity Lived Out With Such Oblivious Impunity

[Orwellian_Ghost]

These are the last hours on the deck of the Titanic, and the chamber orchestra is now playing "Nearer My God To Thee" as the ship continues to take on barrels of water per second, and all but one or two lifeboats have been filled to capacity and launched into the open seas of escape from the capsizing horror-and with no guarantees that they will survive. Throngs of the doomed are drowning in the steerage compartments below-those indigent, third-class, "racially impure" masses of humanity that the "first-class", who helped design the "unsinkable" vessel, kept locked away below the decks of obscene privilege and conspicuous consumption. Some say that economic depressions don't affect the poor because they are already poor, but I'm certain that a black mother in the projects who can now give her kids only two meals a day will become acutely aware, as will her children, when she can only give them one.



But only in America is the definition of insanity lived out with such oblivious impunity. Only in America do we continue to believe that "this time it will be different" in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Faith in any of the three leading candidates running for the presidency to have the capacity or desire to affect any significant change is nothing less than blatantly illogical and irrational.

But one's abdication of critical thinking in the face of the U.S. election charade is neither the most disconnected or the most dangerous course of action. More deadly, in my opinion, is the failure to grasp the reality that not only the empire but civilization itself has entered a process of irreversible demise. This phenomenon is larger than the onset of a Second Great Depression. It's even larger and more momentous than the reality of a cartel of criminals who engineered a mortgage meltdown, the repercussions of which will be reverberating throughout the global economy indefinitely. As I have stated repeatedly, what is unfolding is absolutely unprecedented and is juxtaposed with the equally dire realities of climate chaos and Peak Oil. In their attempts to make sense of these momentous realities, New Age devotees tout the significance of 2012, and the Christian right insists that the rapture is imminent. Equally sychophantic are those who argue that while the current challenges are unprecedented, so is the technology which can alleviate them. Pervading all three groups is a profound disconnect from ecological, scientific, and human reality.

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In a nutshell, there are three realities that every reader of these words must prepare to deal with: Food, fuel, and fascism.

So I won't leave you with my advice but rather ask you a number of questions. My questions to you, dear reader, are these: What are you doing to prepare for the "Three F's"? What keeps you hooked to the U.S. election charade, even when a part of you knows it is a charade? Why do you choose to put your energy there rather than putting it into survival? What do you fear would happen if you let go of your "hope" and stopped trusting an electoral process manufactured from start to finish by empire? What might happen if you stopped engaging in that process and started focusing instead on creating options?

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http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/379/

[DebJ]

1. You have my pity and my prayers.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

2. Sounds like religion

which shouldn't be confused with politics.

I'm not a believer so save the prayer for another.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. What are you doing to prepare for the "Three F's"?

Well I hope to try Square Foot gardening (which I recently found out about when surfing the web) in my back yard starting pretty darn soon. It's a start anyway, and as they say, "better to light a candle than sit and curse the darkness."

When our landlord gave me permission to start gardening in our side yard the first thing that my husband and I did was to go outside with a garden claw and start tugging on the crabgrass. Once we realized that it, the crabgrass, was winning my husband suggested building a series of raised beds filled with soil mix. I will, in a subsequent post, go into the references for the various resources available here in Barbados for the materials used for building and planting the beds.

The side yard on the southwest side of our house is approximately 10′-0″ wide by 30′-0″ long, and contains (4) 3′-0″ X 6′-0″ beds and (1) smaller 2′-0″ X 4′-0″ bed, each bed is 12″ deep. At this point I will be honest and say that the size(s) of the beds are purely a function of the least expensive, most available wood in 12′-0″ lengths. As soon as my husband, the resident handyman, nailed the beds together and moved them to the side of the house I sat down in front of my computer to revisit small scale gardening. In my search I discovered Square Foot Gardening a technique developed by Mel Bartholomew, a (semi)retired Engineer, innovator and businessman from New Jersey.


SNIP

The basic premise of Square Foot gardening is to construct 12″ deep raised beds measuring 3′-0″ X 3′-0,” after which each bed is divided into a grid of (9) equal square feet with each square containing a different “crop.” We doubled the concept to create 3′-0″ X 6′-0″ beds; as long as you create the “square foot” grid any size bed will suffice. Mel suggests using plastic dividers to demarcate the grid, we made do with some nice biodegradable twine and copper nails.

The Square Foot gardening method was very attractive to me as it purports to be an efficient use of limited space, consumes less water for purposes of irrigation, and due to the high density of the planting is a natural deterrent to pestilence. I can say that in the beds that I have planted thus far I have a significant variety in limited space, I am able to water all (5) beds with (3) to (4) buckets of water, and I have not yet, in the last (3) weeks, spotted a single slug.

http://greenbb.wordpress.com/category/sfg-square-foot-gardening/

Official Square Foot gardening web site: http://www.squarefootgardening.com/

[opihimoimoi]

7. Try container gardening...large used containers, cleansed and cut to size will do

elevate and you have an op to go hydroponic ...the liquid will drain into a lower contaner...which will be used to water again when scheduled...

[Orwellian_Ghost]

4. Kicking

[BrklynLiberal]

5. K & R!!!!!!!

[flashl]

6. K&R nt

[FlyingSquirrel]

8. I have a confession to make.......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3012552