[Peace-discuss] peak bless 'im -ism

[C. G. Estabrook]

  "Today we do not know what we have to do, but we have to act now, because the 
consequence of non-action could be disastrous. We will be forced to live ‘as if 
we were free’. We will have to risk taking steps into the abyss, in totally 
inappropriate situations; we will have to reinvent aspects of the new, just to 
keep the machinery going and maintain what was good in the old—education, 
healthcare, basic social services ... as Gramsci said, characterizing the epoch 
that began with the First World War, ‘the old world is dying, and the new world 
struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters’."

See SLAVOJ ZIZEK, 'A Permanent Economic Emergency":
<http://www.counterpunch.org/zizek10152010.html>.

On 10/16/10 8:24 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> "Without the Shedding of Blood there is No Remission of Sins."
>
> It is naive, silly and ridiculous to think that those who are running the system
> are going to willingly hand over the reins of power.
>
> They control the opinion shaping media that manipulates
> the general masses that want the sex, lies and circuses that Big Brother 
> promises.
> They control the currency. They have all the important land.
> They have the guns and the ability to incarcerate.
>
> The great mass of people in their miserable pitiful lives
> of existential fear, farting, fucking, and quiet desperation
> are unwilling nay unable to move outside their comfort zones.
>
> They are only dimly aware of what is happening to their world.
> They will ask for more and more and more regulation, more authoritarianism,
> and more security that will progressively rob them of their liberties, their
> livelihood, and their lives. They will think that they are right in asking
> for Big Brother's iron hand and protection and they will be reassured.
>
> The masses can hardly be expected to make any sort of meaningful response let 
> alone offer resistance.
>
> Those who are aware of what is going on are limited in number.
> They are hindered in their efforts by personal differences and ideologic 
> hang-ups.
> Some are rebels by nature and most are neither good leaders nor obedient 
> followers.
> There will be several different factions.
>
> Many rebel leaders will be incarcerated.
>
> "I've got some friends inside."
>
> There will be much bloodshed as the rebels and looters and vigilantes and 
> paramilitary groups clash.
>
> The rotted american cities will become even more dangerous as the competition 
> for basic needs,
> food, water, clean shelter, heat, automobile tyres, clothing goes over the top 
> out-of-control.
>
> The better cities that somehow retain industrial production
> will be heavily guarded and access to them will be limited to those with 
> explicit permission to enter.
>
> Some will seek to live quiet lives of subsistence in the countryside but there 
> they will be plagued and plundered by marauding gangs
>
> Disease will claim many, as long forgotten illnesses like diphtheria, tetanus, 
> botulism, cholera return with fervor as does famine.
>
>
> When they said, "Repent. Repent." I wondered what they meant. - L. Cohen.
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