[UC] Re: [UC] Re: [UC] Re: [UC] Fwd: Nestlé draining watershed

[Glenn moyer]

Thanks Rick.  I think the people, who take great risks with unpopular positions required by their principles, are driven by something far stronger than any possible recognition or thanks.  The great heroes, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, risked their lives to awaken people in the attempt to save the future!

I think the banality of evil, which Hannah Arendt analyzed in the rise of German fascism, is the true crisis we face.  Individual healing and connection to the sacred, or continued enslavement through addictions; in all neighborhoods within the body politic of the military empire, will determine the survival of humanity or extinction. 

Our shared principles as Americans and humans have collapsed due to a pandemic of addictions.  It's not simply the insatiable greed of our pharaohs, nor the tactics and manipulation of corporate media destroying hope, but the normalization of what the healthy human mind would immediately understand as evil.  When I risked my happiness in this neighborhood, I was terrified at how far "normal" had sunk in neighborhoods and the direction American society would inevitably take as a result.  Part of me wanted to move to South America long ago, but I simply couldn't shut up and be a good boy.

As we sprint toward extinction, the shame is that "human nature" is not the cause, as the neoliberal dictators insist.  Desire and attachment is the root of all human suffering.  I was lucky to discover the truth of the dharma at a young age, which allows me to see our consumer culture and human possibility differently than those in "denial."  (Denial, as a function of addiction) 

The mass addictions in consumer culture, which have been popularized and normalized, allow the exploitation of both greed and fear among the masses.  Unless the masses can overcome their denial of the suffering inherent in grotesque materialism, they cannot take that "first step" toward recovery.  So you see, protesting around single issues, while remaining addicted, is the game of the powerful 1%, and will certainly lead to human misery as well as extinction. (The severely addicted consumer cannot understand the importance and sacredness of justice and equality.)

The sad part is that humans can thrive and survive, when they set themselves free from the demands and laws of materialism and worship of neoliberal capitalism!  True happiness and true contentment is never found in slavery to materialism, electronic hallucinations, addictions, etc.  True joy comes with freedom from desire and connections to all other life.  As humans, the physical location that allows that interconnection is the public commons.  Whether it is at the natural activities open to all in a public park, public universities and schools, public libraries, etc., it is in the public commons that real community develops and real joy is possible. (Happiness through materialism is a dangerous delusion for the individual and when it becomes the only shared value in society, dooms humanity.)  As the public common was being destroyed, I became radicalized and could no longer play along with the fake "civility" that was really a demand for obsequiousness to power.     

A series of private fortresses on private property leads to isolation, addiction, suffering, and perpetual wars. 

As the ancient Greeks understood with the concept of leisure, and Freud with the super-ego, the ability to reach the higher levels of human possibilities can only come when the basic animal needs are met.  Pharaohnic or neoliberal capitalism seeks to enslave the 99% by making their animal needs (e.g. food, water, health, education, shelter, etc.) constantly under threat.  And to control the middle classes, they exploit the addictions and insist upon coveting the luxuries of the plutocrats and oligarchs, as the only route to happiness.  What a complete and terrible lie!!!!

I think many folks have come to understand that hope for America and the planet requires a massive uprising or revolution, and I believe that is not possible against the power of the police state unless the "revolution of values" (MLKing) occurs.  And a revolution of values depends upon freeing the masses of people from the chains of addictions and materialism.  Overcoming denial is the 1st step.

I better stop now, because folks have generally lost the ability to concentrate on anything more than 140 characters.

Always a pleasure, and keep speaking truth to power;

Glenn

PS: Coincidentally, I just got back from Charleston and a pilgrimage to the recognized house of Denmark Vesey. 

PS 2:  I'm not on PFSNI since I left Penn, but feel free to share my responses with them.  But please don't share with the censored list, UCneighbors. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Conrad
Sent: May 30, 2013 3:12 PM
To: Glenn moyer , pf...@ccat.sas.upenn.edu, univcity@list.purple.com
Subject: [UC] Re: [UC] Re: [UC] Fwd: Nestlé draining watershed

Thank YOU Glenn,

If political is r/t power then Monsanto unfairly using our governments, courts, and armed powers to control planetary food (or as seems to be the case too often, to indeed jeopardize our food and our health) is nearly as much political power as you can get. Then add Nestles and others controlling water...  Thank you Glenn Moyer, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and others who protest!

On May 30, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:

Rick,

Thanks for courageously speaking up as a citizen!  Underlying all the problems destroying humanity and the planet is the training we Americans have silently accepted.

Doing one's duty as a citizen is relentlessly attacked and marginalized.  We are trained to talk publicly about our favorite brands and sports stars, but never to speak about democratic processes, scientific method, or truth.  It's cool to attack truth tellers and real journalism, but totally uncool to speak of anything labeled "political."  Truth tellers are stinky whiners and sex perverts like Bradley Manning, Glenn Moyer, and Julian Assange, whom should be executed.

And then, people wonder why the corporate noose continues tightening and new wars begin.  They think George Bush caused the vast and ongoing war crimes instead of looking in the mirror at their sealed lips and cravenness!     

On this list, neighbors were relentlessly attacked as "processaholics" during the gentrification, until UCneighbors and censorship put the final chill on citizenship and free speech locally.  Most of our neighbors are terrified to speak up about anything important, and there are many serious real problems we face!!!

The Bolivian revolution finally occurred because of corporate ownership of water.  Common people were forced to pay half their income or lose access to drinking water.

Thanks and keep speaking out. There are still some fellow citizens among the sea of happy consumers!

Glenn, a citizen    

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