You are pretty right in saying we must fight, but where I'm not convinced
is when you say "fight against" whatever, because then we are spending our
energy. I think we must "fight for" something and use our energies in
defining what this "something" is.
Once more you're right when you insist on the fact that we, people living
in the first world, are able to change the things positively even if we
stand on the core of the capitalistic expansion system. Which place could
be a better one than inside the castle of the powerfuls to change their
thoughts and define common new goals?
Of course the powerful wouldn't leave their privileges if they are not
oblige to it, and here lies a deeper explanation I could resume with few
questions:
- Does the powerfuls are aware they haven't found the right solution for a
worldwide sustainable development?
- Do they think they are building the correct frame for a sustainable
development?
- Do they realize the current system require real changes to avoid the
coming deeper crash in the human history, a worldwide crash?
- Or do they duck it all and just want to enjoy present time and private
wealth?
Whatever could be their answer, we must prepare an alternative concept for
a sustainable future which should be based on concrete proposals. We must
also be ready to use the most powerful tool we can still manage by our own:
consumption. Last ten years development lies on an overwhelming increase of
US and European domestic consumption. The crash already occured in Japan
because of the domestic consumption slowdown...
A future sustainable development requires a sustainable consumption, it's a
bedrock for its implementation worldwide. I mean, if we, in our first world
countries, are not able to live without destroying the global ressources,
how can we promote equity troughout the world? But the most interesting
point is that by slowing down our consumption, right now, we can provoke a
destabilisation of the current trends, and thisaction will create a real
trouble in the mind of speculators, politically correct analysts and
several CEO. Provoking an earthquake in the so happy world of capitalistic
promotors is a way to change their conceited mind and create the correct
situation to propose the alternative we must work on.
A+
Georges
> It is extremely difficult for those that live in terminal fear for
>their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, to be fighting against
>something as intangible as imperialism. Ultimately everyone on this planet
>needs to become informed and take on the global elite, but I believe that
>many battles need to be fought in order to get to that point. Those of us
>lucky enough to be living in " the belly of the beast" need to be building
>movements that focus on the long term dismantlement of this horrendous
>system. At the same time I think we need to be supporting those in the
>periphery and semi-periphery to fight against those that make their lives
>intolerable, even if that means they may, temporarily, continue to be
>dominated by imperialist forces[which I think in its modern sense is
>synonymous with corporate-financial globalization]. It is up to those of us
>in the core to create the conditions so that all of of humanity can break
>these repressive chains.
>
>I hope I'm making some semblance of a coherent argument. I'm a novice
>typist, so by the time I'm getting to what I want to say I've forgotten how
>I want to say it. I thank you, in advance for your patience.
>
> Aaron.
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