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Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:41:23 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43610Good for you Jack. I hope to be able to retire some day as well, but these days I’m not so optimistic. Failing that, I just want an early death without a lot of pain or drama.
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Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:02:14 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43609Ol’ Scratch: All any of us can do at this point is conjecture. I think/feel your conjecture is as good as anyone else’s; including mine.

If I am to continue my quest; it is the abolition of money; believing that the consequences of that would allow it to take IT’S own course … as opposed to someone attempting to run it, control it, put it into effect. Granted for that to take place would require IMO, a critical mass of humanity to see that as a possible way forward.

Liked you, I am not very optimistic any of it will come about.

I do enjoy blogging and listening to other’s ideas and putting forward my own. It could well be that I now being retired and reasonably settled, have the time, the desire and the energy to do so.

Jack Waddington

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Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:28:29 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43608The holistic path will be the only viable option, which likely means we’ll never pursue it. Reduce our numbers dramatically and get back in sync with the basic rhythms of the rest of life on earth. That will be very tough though, because we’ve already disrupted life on earth so much. Given the huge time delays involved in AGW, it very well might not even be possible anymore at this point.
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Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:11:37 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43607Ol’ Scratch: I totally agree, Something has happened in the universe of us earthling planet colonizers. It’s been a ling time coming and I for one will do my best to keep the momentum going.

The only problem as I see it is:- by which path should it go?????

Jack

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Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:04:43 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43606No, I think your idea is a good one! Not possible under the current paradigm, but that paradigm is being rapidly replaced with one or ones where it will. Humans are in the process of remembering that physically, we’re all animals and all in this together. Our technologies and the discovery of cheap energy allowed us to dream that we were gods on earth for a time, but that time is rapidly drawing to a close. Like most such “gifts from god,” we squandered the opportunity to advance the species and the entire earth and instead went in for obscene profits for the few. It all seems inevitable in retrospect, as even though a fairly large minority of people recognize the truth of our predicament, absolutely no one has even proposed a credible way out of it absent a fairly messy and likely bloody total western societal and political reset. But that’s the essence of financialized western corporate capitalism anyway: a “full-spectrum” self-reinforcing system that not only gets more virulent and more malignant as it grows, but very effectively drowns out all opposing systems and means of dissent in the process. There’s a truly monumental struggle ahead of us to unseat it, and it might very well kill the patient in the process.
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Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:01:54 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43605Ol’ Scrtach: Interesting proposition how it all might manifest itself. However, I feel it is very forlorn to attempt any prediction/conjecture as to how it might manifest itself.

I agree, that things are all falling apart on both the political and economic fronts. If we are just thinking of tweaking what already exists, then it will merely be a reshuffling of that, that already exists; as has happened in all the past revolution. Nothing fundamental changes.

Leave us all alone to do our thing and take the consequences, without blame of anyone or anything, for our actions. It’s very simple idea … BUT a hard one to grasp.

Jack Waddington

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Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:41:49 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43604I think you’re abolishing of money idea – at least for the masses – will get some traction very shortly, but not in the way that you might think. I think the next collapse, likely the big one, will involve bank bail-ins (the robbing/seizure of people’s personal accounts to “balance the books”), before the currency finally collapses altogether. Any replacement currency will almost certainly be digital, with fine, upright, corporate denizens invited to take part (along with a copious number of other strings attached, I’m sure), and everyone else sent their “termination notices.” That of course will be the final straw for the US as a “going concern,” and all the cards will finally be laid on the table. The common citizens – the riff raff or ferals – will have to self-organize as best they can, with many taking up arms against the federal government/corporate oligarchy and likely getting snuffed out in the process, and the oligarchy mostly abandoning them where they can, and hunting down and slaughtering them wholesale where they can’t, exactly as they’ve been practicing the third-world-over in the wake of WWII. Interesting times ahead, for sure!

The surviving feral population will emerge much smaller and heartier than ever after several generations (assuming the world is habitable that long), but their lifestyles will be much different than what we know now. In that atmosphere, sharing and comity will once again thrive, not necessarily because anyone wanted it to be that way, but simply because there was no other alternative if they wanted to survive.

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Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:04:50 +0000http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/?p=7385#comment-43603Ol’ Scratch: It depends on developments among the peoples of this planet. Some disalutioned with the extreme left, others with the extreme right, and some beginning to realise that the middle does satify our human needs either.
It’s slow incurring development and if, as I hope, that the one solution of abolishing money might, just might, have some credibility, then slowly happen. If it doesn’t, and that is a possibility, then I see the end of the ‘homo genus’ going extinct and perhaps with it, life on the planet.

The only consolation for me is that I doubt I will be around to see it. It’s all a conjecture in the end, however much anyone may consider themselves an expert. One other aspect to all this is the proposition by Benjamin Lee Whorf stating:- “we THINK in language”.
For me, looking around at both sides of the political arguments it’s all about words and catch phrases. Rarely if ever taking our deep instinctive feelings into account. This brings me back to this current blog page proposition; that we need to learn how to be forgiving. If it is not instinctive to play out our feeling, through the expression of them, but instead have to be educated, calling it:- “forgiving”, then I feel we surely are doomed.

Taking up the last thread over here on the left margin again. Not to apologize for Stalin, but keep in mind that capitalist interests the world over were scared shitless of the Communist revolution in Russia, as capitalism itself was by no means the lock then that it is now. [Roosevelt’s New Deal having been originally sold as a program to save capitalism from itself.] So much so that significant interests within Great Britain and the US both backed Hitler’s little party until it was clear that he had much larger ambitions, then took full advantage of the carnage on the Russian front, which decimated both the Nazi’s and the Russians, before shamelessly claiming credit for “winning” the war.

The current and past vilification of Communism within the US is nothing more than the continued propaganda effort to portray capitalism as the only “reasonable alternative,” even though it’s clearly and spectacularly melting down before our very eyes. Hard to say exactly what will come next, but rest assured it won’t be a “kindler, gentler” form of anything for quite some time yet. There’s simply too much money, power, and privilege at stake for the rich to simply lay down their arms in magnanimous defeat, and the ruins of the meltdown will hardly be a cakewalk to endure for a human population that’s now several orders of magnitude greater than that which is sustainable, absent cheap energy and a thriving industrialized agriculture culture to feed and house them all.