I have come to think the price of admission anywhere in the world, (except in America and Europe, where enough dough will get your ass kissed in any circles) is service to others. We have been indoctrinated by an earth devouring capitalist system to believe otherwise. Believe that giving only depletes. And that mankind and civilization came about through kings and warriors and "great men." But the essential glue of man the social animal, and society has always been on cooperation and sharing. That an endless stream of elite thieves have always managed to steal the fruits of that cooperation does not matter. And the best that is in man still rests on the same fundamentals -- cooperation for the greater good of all.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
There ain't no escape from collapse
by Joe Bageant from his website. Joe responds to a person wanting information about escaping the coming collapse of society for those of us in the advanced(?) capitalist countries. Joe appears to be living mostly in exile in Mexico after living in Belize, and has an earlier experience of living off the land in the US. So I think that he is highly qualified to offer his words of wisdom.