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I was about to reply to some responses I had to a post on another website's discussion board last night when I just thought whats the fucking point?, someone had bandied the word ' commie' about and the implication was I was being overly pessimistic but the real problem is that none of us in the west has a vision for the future, certainly not a widely known or shared vision anyway, we are just winging it with most people struggling to get by and to try to understand how we got into the mess we are in now. You know, people have information fatigue for evironmental issues, it doesnt matter that the current food crisis pushed down the news agenda by a flurry of high body count natural disasters is in essence a profoundly political issue and hints at the massive problems we are going to have down the line with conflicts over what and who crops, land, water and other resources are actually used for when we have a global population of 9 to 11 million as we are expected to mid century, No, what seems to matter is that we arent expected to think or do anything about it, like its just the way we live, from day to day , week to week, a sort of social myopia. Dont worry folks because someone, somewhere is going to do all the real worrying and problem solving on our behalf, only they arent , because our societies function on the basis that we should create and consume as much as we can and fuck the consequences , thats the short term vision , only its not working as the economy and environment are on a crash course on just about every front, with poorer nations and people expected to pay totally disproprtionately to their contribution to the problems. The poor are destined to pay for the problems of the future, the poorest will probably pay for it with their lives , but it keeps coming back to this for me, do we actually have a collective vision ? a vision that inspires and carries us forward? ] cant see one and that makes even anarcho primitivism look like a more viable option by comparison, except there are too many people around so that anything we do in large numbers fucks up and ends up back at the economy versus environment resource management nightmare. We have arrived at the scenario where solutions are only going to be available and viable for the few. Ideologically speaking we seem to be frozen in our tracks, we have this instinct that something terribly bad is going to happen to us pretty soon, we just have no framework to act on it.We can band tiogether to wage war on terror - spectres we cant see - but we cant figure out where we want to go when the future is staring us right in the face! Poverty and alienation are byproducts of lack of shared vision as without one more and more people are just excluded. I daresay a shared vision will rise out of the emerging east , communistic, democratic, fascist or whatever, but we've turned the spear of destiny inwards to culturally and economically disembowel ourselves with it for the benefit of a priviledged few, this is how empires and civilisations go into decline and fall , they lack the shared vision to do anything but disintergrate, just dont hold your breath waiting for our leaders to act or fall on their swords, they are more likely to be constructing bunkers in the Hamptons or planning on sending us to battle against more ghosts.
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