You need a massive movement to achieve any results and I don't see this happening easily. And I think Ghandi used some tactic with cotten trade (?), went on a hunger strike for publicity and caught Britain at a low moment in their empire. 30% of all food is wasted each year. The Security Council boasts the world's major arms dealers. Our technology is only as wise/good as the programmers and sets the objectives beyond personal control. The culture urges and rewards wealth, accumulation and power. Even organic foods are a snob item. One can try to set an example but it's another matter to impose it on others. But, you are right, one's wallet is a place to start.
On Jan 9, 11:11 am, andrew vecsey <[email protected]> wrote: > The wallet can be the technology/weapon that can destroy who ever is > running the world. Stop buying brainwashing junk movies. Stop watching > these movies or programs if it is offered for free and paid for by > advertisements. Stop shopping in supermarkets, stop buying genetic modified > food, stop playing the game. This approach is similar to passive resistance > used by Gandhi. > > > > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 4:16:47 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote: > > > The human world is in a mess. It's hard to express what is going on. > > My guess is we are being ruled by a small, unelected, hidden politburo > > we could call banksters. I take this as metaphor, much as I would the > > notion the rulers are alien lizards. I also guess they have skewed > > any dialogue we have to make it very difficult to identify the real > > problem we face through argument. This is more or less a 'Dr Who' > > predicament, though I suspect it is the real one we face. > > > Those of us who are democrats (small d) know the answer. We want a > > human world at peace and our institutions based on real democracy with > > government as unobtrusive as possible in the lives of reasonable > > individuals. This, sadly, is the easy bit. Even something as easy as > > this is potentially totalising and fascist. > > > Much, of course, has been written on this, and my conclusion is this > > can't be helping much. My own country, Britain, has made some kind of > > decision to give up empire, but we clearly cling to the coat-tails of > > the USA through the dupes or war criminals we elect - or who know a > > secret case not made to us that justifies war and other rotten > > policies. If I was capable of listing all the literature I've read on > > this matter I wouldn't finish until sometime after a week tomorrow and > > I'm by no means a specialist. Even if the democratic parts of this > > literature is right, it doesn't convince me of any course of action, > > as almost none of it explains how we might lay down the arms of the US > > umbrella without giving up to something worse or simply as bad run by > > people less favourable to my ethnicity. > > > My belief is we must change what dialogue and argument are to address > > a move to real, global democracy. We have new technology that would > > allow this, but currently it is being subsumed into the skewed form > > that has allowed domination through the ages. It could be that this > > technology would tell us we need the American Empire. I rather hope > > it would rather be a call to democratic arms and very substantial > > changes in what we do and can be. Any suggestions as to what this > > technology is or would be?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --
