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.