Reply #104: We are at a turning point in history...

[The_Commonist]

...or in herstory, depending upon your perspective. And, it's going to be people like you, NavyVet07, who ultimately decide which turn we take.

I believe that for the past 30 years or so, the conservative agenda has been to destroy the functions of government and privatize everything. They want to be able to profit from every single human activity, down to the very last breath that we take. There is profit to be squeezed out of every tree, every stone, every step you take or don't take. They want those profits, and they believe on the one hand that government is keeping them away from those profits, while stealing our tax dollars with the other hand.

Add to the mix the notion that there are too many people on the planet. Sorry, but it's true and we all know it. We as a species are stripping the land and emptying the seas, causing mass extinctions and global warming. There are too many of us and we are causing those problems so that we can have more, more, more cheap Chinese made crap that we don't need, and so that every penny of profit can be squeezed out of us.

We are not doing anything about the fact that there are too many of us on the planet, and that's where disaster capitalism comes in. The profit-seekers have found a way to kill two birds with one stone! Squeeze their profits out of us while we live our lives, while killing as many of us off as possible. It would be a brilliant system if it weren't so clearly evil and disgusting.

So this begs the question - what do we do about this? How do we stop polluting ourselves and killing ourselves off for the profit of the 2 or 3 percent of the humans on the planet who own most of everything?

That's where you come in, my new NavyVet friend! May I quote you from your words above?



"We as Americans need to be in a binding force, and we need to change ourselves from the inside out and not rely on the government anymore."

I could not agree more!

"We the people are the mechanism that will eventually turn this country around, and if we do not band together I am suggesting that we will perish in the fashion that all other empires have."

This empire is in its death throes.

"...this mountain might just be another grain of sand in our history, but we are facing SERIOUS issues and it seems people just shrug them off as a passive threat."



Americans are largely ignorant of the world and of history, herstory and ourstory. And the powers that be do everything they can to keep us that way. It's to their benefit to do so, because if we all got together and decided to "overthrow" the 2 or 3 percent of the people on the planet who own most of everything, they would be toast and they know it!

Of course, if we banded together to "overthrow" the existing order, it would be just as bad for us as it would be for them. Just as many, if not more of us would suffer as are suffering now. Therein lies the rub! And that's where you and I and all of the rest of us need to get to work. We need to design an alternate system to replace the existing order that works within the existing order with the goal of changing it to a new order. I've got some thoughts on the subject, and I call it "Commonizm." You might have some thoughts on the matter that you call "NavyVet07izm." As many of us as possible need to think, talk, and act upon our ideas for how to get out of this mess as possible. Out of that will come something. I don't know what that something will be, but if we try in a positive manner, we just may pull it off. I don't like to think about the alternative.

Welcome to DU, NavyVet07, may your stay here be a productive one!