[Peace] "We'll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals":

[karen aram]

Good one from Caitlin Johnstone:
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> By Caitlin Johnstone <https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone?__cft__[0]=AZXfRjMBCsF04B7EFIHOJJ-tc8JgZINgKo-iCJ-54YEbObMnD1UpkaUO5YQ6nEGeW6a0qYA_8u0Qr919Y9BNxHkvFMxhfsK_6s-z9n0n8wbn_4AEZ5pPtFbXPhMqMzO19P5L4g3Z1un2okHUVOAGlMJUNZNf2OJ5EuGW4KBWTSrGTAa9qhITjS8NX_agI8Z6lxI&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y1.g-R>
> Excerpt from "We'll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals":
> The powerful are able to manipulate humanity collectively to such an extent that our compliance now has us staring down the barrel of extinction on multiple fronts. No individual can stop them. They won't be stopped until the people begin thinking and organizing collectively too.
> Which is of course why all collectivist movement is stomped out with whatever degree of violence is necessary. Our rulers are not even the slightest bit worried about us as individuals, but they are absolutely terrified of the idea of having to face us as a unified collective.
> If individualism ever had an argument to begin with, it certainly hasn't got one anymore. Humanity's collective behavior is now so powerful that it can literally end our world. The only thing we can control now is whether that behavior is toward health or destruction.
> Oh you just want the government to leave you alone and let you go about your business as an individual, do you? Well guess what blossom? Even if you went off grid and lived a truly independent life, the ways the powerful are organizing the collective will still get you killed by nuclear war or environmental destruction. Even if you support a radically individualist status quo like voluntaryism or minarchism, you're never going to get a chance at creating that status quo without mass-scale collective organization against the current status quo. An "anarchist" who dismisses mass collective organization is just a LARPer.
> The need to begin thinking and organizing collectively has shown up at your doorstep. The luxury of thinking of yourself as an individual is no longer yours. Unhealthy mass-scale human behavior will destroy us all if we cannot make the changes necessary to turn it toward health.
> We will either rise as a collective or perish as individuals. All other options have been taken off the table.

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