The Big Picture Vol. 2

There has always been a struggle….most likely there always will be.

It is human nature to struggle, in some that is expressed as full out rebellion. In others it is reduced to complaining under their breath. Or worse….being afraid to even do that.

On the other side of the struggle, there is the range of full time crackdown on the rebels….actively supporting supporting the crushing of rebellion by The People, to indifference and willful ignorance. Ignorance has two forms those who cannot get information….and those who ignore inconvenient or uncomfortable information. Cracking down on ‘rebels….even those who merely mutter is a full time struggle for the status qou-sters

The two biggest chunks of information that are being ignored right now, imo, are Climate Crisis which is literally off the charts in its acceleration….and the fact that not just America, but pretty much the entire planet, is now a Corporatocrasy.

It has been for some time of course, at a lower profile. But as with absolutely everything else any thinking person would condemn as evil or at least Wrong! …under Bushco it has not only flourished and thrived, but has also revealed itself much more nakedly. They are no longer trying to hide it, very much….the fact that they are out to buy up the worlds resources and control all distribution of said resources. Though I don’t get into it much here….the distribution part is critically important as well.

Chevron and Burma is just the latest example of corporations gone wild. Whether it is their intent to be evil or if they are just fulfilling the mission of corporations with brutal efficiency, regardless of consequence to People and to the planet, what they are actually doing to the planet is incredibly and fatally harmful. And certainly with the oil companies and insurance companies, it is VERY easy to ascribe evil intent. I sure do. It is hard not to do the same with many others as well, Coca-Cola buying up water rights worldwide and the chemical companies and Big Pharma etc. The MIC is of course a No-brainer, you can’t get much eviler than selling death.

But the real point is, is that these corporations….in a purely corporate self preservationist internal logic, are now openly buying governments. They then use these governments to obtain and control that countries resources. It seems that there is no limit on their behavior, their ‘business practices’ ….as long as the stockholders are making money.

If you control the worlds resources and the worlds governments you control the world. Though perhaps not a conscious conspiracy, it has become a defacto one. Especially when you factor in the interdependency of needing resources another corporation controls to make your corporations product. Not to mention….mergers.

I won’t try to hazard a guess as to what degree of control the corporations hold these governments or what percentage of the worlds resources they now own. It is not any where near 100%, of course. There is not much point to it since the numbers will just increase. After all, no one is stopping them. Or has any plans to. Hell, no one in power will even talk about it. Because of course….they are all to some degree or another, beholden to those very same corporations. Especially, the Media. And of course their is the money that fuels Americas political process and lobbying industry.

And to further muddy the waters….we are all beholden in various ways as well, whether we own stock, or we work for a corporation or are dependent on a corporation buying the product of our work or merely through consuming corporate products. We are all in the web. Which of course is part of ‘the plan.’ The corporations depend on the consumers. The consumers depend on the corporations. It would be the perfect relationship if it wasn’t for the consumption and waste and destruction it engenders.

And as long as most people are getting what they want….dividends, a paycheck or just Twinkies, it is perfectly ok. Until they start to shed their ignorance and see what the cost of their consumption is. And no, I am not purity trolling. I do not condemn people ….neither do I support people…profiting from corporations. It is the system we live under and condemning people for living under a system is silly. Especially since most people became invested in the system before it truly revealed its raw and destructive face. Or at least when they were young and had no knowledge of the true cost of the system we now live under.

George Bush and his policies didn’t come out of nowhere. They were shaped by two forces, the Religious Wrong and the Corporations….what used to be called Big Business. They got him elected so he would remove any restraints…moral or regulatory from them so that they then could…..go hog fucking wild on fucking everything up. Who was one of Bush’s biggest supporters? Ken Lay from Enron. All of this is old news of course.

But it can longer be denied….just as with Climate Crisis. The Corporatocracy has truly become an enemy of The People. ALL of the planets people. They are the ones who have shaped and are exploiting this world we live in. This world we all bemoan everyday. This is the root of the nearly all the problems we face. From War to Warming to SCHIP etc. But this is also the foundation on which our present society is built. And this is the society that the corporations are working so hard to spread to every corner of the globe, even as that society kills itself more rapidly the more it spreads and the bigger it gets. It is a race to see if we can use up the worlds resources before climate change caused by the consumption and waste products of those resources changes/destroys the world we know now.

Not to mention that the imposition of this society onto Islamic life and culture is, shall we say, proving problematic. Especially since the corporations want to steal their oil.

Many folks have known this for years, many are still coming to terms with it. But as we move forward we must stop pretending the situation does not exist.

The corporations now control our political process and thus to an extent our government, they also control our media. They have shaped our society into a suicidal cycle of consumption. Yet they are the basis of all of our financial structures. And much of our social structure….if you consider watching tv a social structure, but aside from tv, think how much corporations affect your everyday life. They are ingrained.

Mitigating Climate Crisis and taking control back from the corporations will both force massive changes on life as we know it. Just getting off oil will change our lives…dramatically. We either have to face up to the fact that we are committing slow suicide or that we MUST make dramatic changes. And at the rate climate change is proceeding….alarming even the alarmists…we have to make these changes sooner rather than later.

We must react to climate crisis, that means reacting to the corporations who, with our help, are fostering it.

Also, ending the cycle of eternal war for the oil corporations and the profits of the Military Industrial Complex seems like a good idea.

There has always been a struggle….this is the shape of ours. The People vs the Corporatocracy.

Now what do we do about it?