Fake Slogans for Real People

It’s clear they aren’t going to help us, isn’t it?

Now is the time to take over the narrative.

And you think, this is not my beautiful wife, 

this is not my beautiful house. 

And you think, well, how did I get here?

Is this the history of humanity that always had idiots 

reigning over her or is this the history of a bunch 

of idiots who ended up enslaving humanity?

We need to do this ourselves.

Turn thy neighbour thy other cheek.

It’s easy to accept the diagnosis, we have gone way too far,

Earth is nearly dying, we need to change radically right 

now,thank you covid, but let’s please do this collectively.

I don’t need no policeman telling me about my health

and

I don’t need no doctor telling me about rules (my safety).

Slow down, cool down, scale down.

Lokalize it.

Don’t rebuild.

If we still are soul bearing people, then we need to get

rid of these bloodsuckers now.

Don’t rebuild, build new.

The Plot Against Humanity*

 

Aye, ye wretched of the earth. Aye, ye prisoners of want, I will tell you something. When the size of the disaster engulfing us becomes apparent, we the people will be deemed to have succumbed to the fear porn a bit too readily, having accepted the story in all its consequences and thus fully responsible for any personal losses. We will not be compensated for our woke willingness to accept authority. Rather, we are spoon-fed ownership of the enfolding economic black hole event. This is how such circumstances are always dealt with and, notwithstanding the Grand Canyon type of abyss we are currently staring in, the powers seem to have chosen once again in favour of our dear implication, meaning we get to foot the impossible bill.

I believe this reading of events must be considered completely erroneous and rejected fervently by a vast majority of humans. I believe the people of Earth should be viewed to have been gracious and courageous in accepting the plight of safety first. They have sacrificed their livelihoods and some even their lives. They have done what was asked of them by people who demanded to be trusted in the light of unexpected circumstances. Trust is the basis of any functioning society. It was commonly around when people lived locally and has lost some of its lure in our globalised electronic community. At least, that’s what we thought, that we were mentally ready to step onto the next level of awareness. Yet covid has shown us a different reality. All over the modern world people have eagerly put their faith in authority, even when they felt they would normally not readily do so. There is a strong sense of togetherness, with all its responsibilities, spread out over the internet, and people have picked up on that. Yes, it’s dangerous, yes, we stay at home, yes, we are willing to sacrifice some more. Now we the people expect this loyalty to be met with trust. You cannot leave us exposed to the whims of Mammon when we have just destroyed everything we had. You owe us, global leadership. But will the leadership listen?

Judging by what they have done so far, things aren’t looking good. All their talking is about money and more lockdown. Everybody knows by now that they got it all wrong and that we may hope to be nearing the end of the first assault with summer coming. Meanwhile, new disease rumours are released hourly to keep us indoors a while longer and then longer. They really seem to be enjoying themselves, our leaders, don’t you think? It’s all those near-future dystopia films and novels in one for them. They’ve finally got us in the treadmill and they can do to us whatever strikes them as opportune. We have ultimately become the sheeple, the people who used to live in a sheltered reality where things were relatively okay, and who are now, completely disoriented, running in the direction of the clouds. We will be stripped of our identities and all treated the same, which is lousily, ask any sheep, and to our masters’ desire. Seeing where your voting rights have led you in the 21^st century, I believe the time has come to bring this madness to a halt. What’s being done to us is no longer viable as a form of society building. After having lost our gravity in society, we the public are now forced to live in ghettos, with some of them easily turning into concentration camps, where we will be sort of kept alive according to what our designated carbon footprint will allocate to each of us our ration of energy in its broadest sense, including all derivative coefficients such as food and security and other calorie dense services. It certainly aligns with the most recent leader posturing for scientific solutions. I read somewhere Israel has been doing this to Gaza for some time already, so they may have sold the results.

Well, ain’t that swell, this new normal? You know, there really is no need for it to be like this at all. We are educated people who understand that the capitalist paradigm has met its sudden end – as we knew it would always be sudden – and that we must bear responsibility for what is already threateningly called the new normal. It must be our normal. It is therefore time to accept that consumerism could not have continued for ever, that it could have gone on a few years more without this damned virus, but now that it is here or at least its consequences are here, we must make the most of it. And the most, that is not what our leaders are planning for us, sheeple. We really have to do this ourselves, on a local level and a regional level and a communal level and a world level, sharing knowledge and working towards common goals while enthusing people ever further up that greasy pole to slide down and join the meme. Because it’s working. We know it is.

How crazy must this get before we say enough? I see people wearing gloves and masks all the time when they are out of their homes, going shopping or walking the dog and recently their children again, some even in their cars. These people are not honestly informed about the dangers and don’t know what to be afraid of, so they freak out and live under stress, stress being detrimental to one’s health, as is the silent obesity plague. We should stop being afraid to get infected and start worrying about not infecting other people, and act accordingly. You will notice you can take off your mask most of the time as long as you do not deliberately cough in people’s faces, which in my mind is a minor danger. Put it on where it’s deemed appropriate, as in shops, and allow people to slowly come to terms with the reality of life with a virus, not the freak show put up by our faltering leaders but a deliberately correct assessment of our collective situation. I see lots of desperate thinkers voicing their concerns on youtube to a few thousand listeners each, so there is certainly promise out there.

We have been through this before, remember. Ever since the Berlin wall disappeared, we have been force-fed impossible lies with serious legal consequences in their wake. Every time, we traded a few of our civil rights for a promise of security, while in the end the threat always outsmarted security and rights were quietly disappearing. Nobody seriously spoke about them anymore. Of all the critical thinking and not so critical thinking that have sprung up around these lies, 911 is still the biggie, though covid is busy overtaking it. Funny, that in this screen age it is an invisible danger that threatens our existence. Such a sinister plot, one would think that only aliens could have come up with it. Let it be known then that the alien card has been stuck up the master’s sleeve for many decades.

But back to our road. There will be new leadership, surely. It’s only natural for some people to assume responsibility and for many more to accept and even support this, while an artistically inclined minority will be kicking against the pricks. So we shouldn’t be afraid of that and welcome it, but I think we should at least have had a taste of the freedom that comes when the old tyranny has been rejected and the new one not yet embraced. We should be able to believe we know what it’s like being free, no strings attached, before we grant a new leadership the difficult task of managing our plight. So don’t wait for your newspaper of choice to announce the name of the anointed but go searching for them yourselves. Have a voice. I don’t know what to say anymore. I’m open for answers.

*The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, tells about an effort to install Nazism in USA in the 1930s.

We are normal and we want our freedom

Arise, ye wretched of the earth. Arise, ye prisoners of want. The time has come to take matters in your own hands. You must take back your societies, if you ever had them, but you certainly need to run them now. There is no other way out of this mess covid got us in. We have lost our economy. Nobody’s spending or making any money, apart from the funny money players. We must accept this fact from each other and find other ways of trading services. I keep some cash for cashless times. We must believe we can do this.

Look at our governments, they were totally unprepared for a pandemic, their unpreparedness was of 911-like proportions. They played innocent until the virus had nicely spread and then they locked everybody up to keep the virus from spreading, pretending there was no better alternative, tinba. Well, I don’t buy that. There must be playbooks and trained staff everywhere. All they had to do was give it the get go, yet they busied themselves with centralising power. Now we feel obliged to stay home and learn to live in a different way, if there is another way. There is so far little talk of what comes next. It’s all about covid fear.

We really can’t wait much longer to start taking care of ourselves and our direct environment. Our cities need deep refurbishing after the shocking standstill, and I mean shocking to the system. All our governments are offering us is threats of renewed infection and extended lockdowns. But what happens when we run out of money? We must take control of every aspect of our exterior and not let armed forces lead us into despair. We must listen to people who are already trusted by their neighbours first. We must be clever and learn from each other. We must start thinking about food. Shelter, we have enough.

How much longer do we accept the rule of the mad men taking capitalism to its logical conclusion, when we know the end will be terrible for us, whether death or slavery, it will be the end? This system has lost the ability to contain itself, moving us ever faster into a control state model. Roll out 5G, make everybody traceable, take away our sense of kinship because we can’t smell each other any longer. Long live Queen Covid who got us there! people from the future will know their history. We just can’t let that happen. We are not like that, in our vast majority. We want to raise families and be left alone most of the time. We are normal and we want our freedom, as the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band already knew.

In Catalunya, we know the armed forces are willing to attack citizens, but they do follow instructions. Will they take prisoners all around the country? Are these soldiers really that stupid? Can they be so thick as to believe they are on the right side? Somebody needs to talk to these guys, their aggression doesn’t serve any purpose, it never achieves what wasn’t already achieved. They need to start helping and no longer think they know better. Knowledge is where it always was. We need to keep functioning what we can’t pay for just because we need it. We can’t let it go to waste ‘cause there won’t be much restoring this time, so preserving is the meme. We’ll all be soviets overnight. There’s no going back. The new normal, is what they call it. Let that normal be ours.

What’s to be done? Max Keiser, economy pundit at RT, gives us the following vision: We have now entered a new post-globalization, post-crony capitalist era of hyper-localism, where regions of self-sufficiency replace the system of just-in-time globalization which had been built on artificially cheap credit at the command of supranational bureaucrats and venal plutocrats. And he offers some advice: Ultimately, the winners in this new world will be groups with the lowest expectations about how much wealth they can illegitimately extract from their community. The losers will be those that cling to the legacy of winner-takes-all at any cost.

See, there’s that socialism thing again. You’re going to be East-Germany, northern Europe that is, southern fringe more likely to return to sustainable destitution. Let’s hope the church stays out of it.

I’m more of an agitator than a farmer, but I can imagine keeping getting food in the city won’t necessarily be easy with our supply line from Almería not guaranteed. We will perhaps have to redistribute some of the available lands around the city and find public gardens inside. We need to claim the public sphere and fear no violence. We are the vast majority. We are the legitimate owners of the reality we create every day. If we do not rise to our potential this spring, we never will. There won’t be another chance. We’re entering matrix territory here. It may look alright from the outside, but it won’t turn out to be. And remember, I haven’t heard a politician anywhere in the world say our sorrows will be taken care of. Have you?

We must unite, all locked-down people outside the chain of command, everybody who has seen their life taken away and is left wondering if the economy will be strong enough for their job to survive. The longer this takes, the worse it’s going to be. We’re already doing two months, that’s sixteen percent of a year in lost revenue to start with. Add to that collateral damage, which can easily double the original score, and we’re looking at a third of the economy. And then we aren’t even talking about the prospects of violence when peer groups and armed forces’ claims clash over preference. Violence has never been good for the economy. So it’s all about filling up that public space and reaching out to your neighbours. Do not wait for the tanks to come riding in.