Thread by @runaheadofme

I've finally reached media saturation. The shocking revelations are predictable, they will keep coming, our current systems are insufficient to deal with this, the solutions are obvious but will continue to be rejected, true justice & the common good are lost in the struggle.

Many sources observe the same things but they are best received in digested form from a clear-eyed Cassandra like @sarahkendzior

I have been a baby bird, stretching out my neck for news for quite some time. My belly is distended, my gut is full of the most perplexing dystopic worms. This puts a different spin to "twitter" since we all imagine ourselves the 🐦 birds, "chirping"

#Twitter is really all about regurgitation, then re-regurgitation, then re-re-regurgitation and so forth. Our tweets are the writhing worms of opinion, marked with our spit and digestive juices to show our tribe and POV

The interconnectedness and intersectionaliity of our modern predicament overwhelms me. Capitalism has reached its fiber optic roots out in every direction, in a mockery of Nature, in such a way that one failure becomes a failure for us all

One atrocity against our fellow creatures (take your pick-- hunting, poaching, caging, drugging, farming, slaughtering) in one place (never just one but many) sets a microbiological wheel into motion that curses all of humanity. It happens again and again. Predictable.

Even if we survive this wave the underlying web of exploitative, capitalistic practices remains-- the Rube Goldberg machine of the next contagion, the next collapse, the next genocide, the next invasion, the next pollution disaster, the next war has begun.

It has already started. The capitalist overlords have already moved on to their next conquest, before this one has ended. The Saudi/ Russian/ U.S. oil dispute plants its boots all over the globe with Yemeni, Crimean and indigenous bodies stuck in their treads.

The trans-national crime syndicate of authoritarians and oligarchs moves on unimpeded by every well-meaning poltician, activist group, humanitarian, or even entire political parties, nation states, international unions. It feeds itself from our struggle.

It reminds me of the plantation system-- an exploitative terror operation that was not an anomaly in our nation's history, but its very foundation-- in that the end goal is to protect the weak and rich through lies, atrocities & misdirection that set the poor against each other

You establish that system through boogeyman level terror, displacement, genocide, disease, misinformation, suppression of independent thought, and constant chaotic confusion. Sound familiar? Slap a badge on some bigot's chest and give another a whip to keep order.

We are not only being sickened by a disease contracted from animals brought to market, we ARE animals brought to market.

We are being subjected to the next "clever" form of slavery. "Nicer" b/c it's almost invisible (at least to the privileged)... but it doesn't seem so nice when the Master diverts crucial aid supplies, insults health care workets, cares more about the economy, shows no empathy

We are his cows, his livestock. He just wants us to get back to work, make him money. The economic thing is worrying, yes, but the dying people? No. We are slaves, bought and sold. We are also commodities. Next thing Master will limit travel both in & out to keep us working.

He just wants us humbled and broken, desperate, ready to do his bidding. So our next steps? Local independence, focus on community, greater interconnectedness at a smaller scale to survive these upsets. Greater respect for Nature. Focus on food, health, education. Cut the strings

#cutthestrings

Understanding how things work is not enough b/c there is a problem with how things work-- has been for a long time.

The question is-- how do we finally change how things work, in a revolutionary and truly lasting way?

I think it comes down to a local and sustainable, mobile and responsive, communitarian and adaptable approach to self-government. #parableofthesower by Octavia Butler has an example, #cuba another. Any such community will be attacked.

Trump honestly can't understand why we shouldn't just be sacrificed-- sold and replaced

"There is no Western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there is a profit to be made from them." --Noam Chomsky

We are seeing this applied to us (not some distant battlefield or village) right before our eyes and all Trump cares about is the potential of profit.