Speaking our minds

[Mouse]

Curt, you said this:
As for our speaking our minds....

we could (!) let it be. Aint no one listening any old how. Let us....consider ourselves .....

silent observers. Not any easy job. On the other hand, we save ourselves a load of problems trying to convince the unconvinceable. Short & sweet little hints should suffice. A lot like salting our puddings. I trust that if we can find that balance in the amount of info / warning we emit, we can make a dent. A big dent. The louder we shout, the smaller the dent. Silence is no option. Strange, no?

Personally, my garden grows. All is well. We live, we learn.

Really appreciated that shared stream of consciousness.
Couldn't reply on 'ourselves and our environs' thread due to first day failed connection and now absence of reply button. Wanted everyone to know, still thinking about what you said there, this is such a difficult and painful area of life, so important a part of everything, how and what we communicate. Salting the pudding. Short and sweet little hints should suffice. That could save me an awful lot of trouble and frustration.

Sometimes I'm scared of being knocked off my bicycle by a petulant pillar of the establishment. Yet riding the bike downhill is the keenest joy.

Isn't it art that allows us to blast the air open. Ah that reminds me, recorded a strange wordless song on Sunday morning. Well, one word emerged and took up abode for a while:
"No.................."

[waldopaper]

have followed Mickey Z's excellent prose ever since first encountered on dissidentvoice.org... essays equal in art to Hal Crowther and Joe Bageant! Humbly wish to throw in a couple of extra mental pennies:

There is no “government.” There is no “political process.” There is no “country.” The great collective that passes for the USA is a network of corporate fiefdoms controlled by looters turning imaginary paper into machines, food and protected territory as fast as they possibly can… because they know the approaching die-off will convert monetary feudalism to the real feudalism of fortresses, food and weapons.

Mickey Z. lays the whole thing out right here in less than 50 minutes. "Civil Unrest" is EXACTLY what is expected... which is why the laws and hired thugs and concentration camps are in place right now. Hart is correct... only a REVOLUTION will keep us from slavery. But here's the difficult part:

It must be the kind of "Revolution" that has never been seen before... perhaps a hybrid of various techniques. As soon as it is "organized," it will be infiltrated and co-opted. As soon as it gets "violent" (or even LOOKS like it MAY become so) it will be brutally suppressed. The "process" for peaceful change is GONE. The avenues for forcible change have been anticipated. We must do what is NOT anticipated.

So we have to be creative. A general strike may be a good place to start... but it's only the beginning. A revolution means "to turn around." It happens quickly... it WILL happen quickly... it is happening NOW. It is usually the COUNTER-revolution that is brutal... because those in power do not give up that power easily. A revolution is a paradigm shift... a "tipping point."

The current (and it's going to get worse) economic collapse is part of all that... the clash between Two Intellectual Systems: matter-energy and monetary culture. It (the revolution) is happening NOW.

Instead of thinking in terms of "revolution" (already in progress), perhaps we should be thinking of ways to avoid the brutality of the counter-revlution.

Yeah, this is a cross-post. This squirrel of little brain must bury his nuts beneath the original trees. YOU decide wothehell THAT means.