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Larry Carlson, The Lightning Express, 2008.
Who Are The Oppressors?
The oppressors are those who want to control and manipulate the coercive powers of State, those who want to game the rules, change the playing board in which the game is played for their financial well-being, often at the expense of the citizen.
The oppressors are those who seek power solely for the sake of power, those who wish to legislate their own twisted version of morality on the rest of us because they believe that they, and they alone, receive absolute truth.
The oppressors are those who believe in an objective view of reality, that this is the way that it is and that there are no alternatives, they have a static view of reality, and wish to enforce that reality. The oppressors are those who are afraid of change, they are afraid of change because they are amassing financial fortunes from the present, whether or not the means that they are amassing them is immoral or harmful irrelevant, because for the oppressors, the ends always justify the means.
The oppressors are those who are hypocrites to the highest extent. They extoll the virtues of the free markets, they claim the supremacy of laissez-faire, they adhere to the religion of the invisible hand, but at the slightest disturbance to their income streams, they will cry to the State for forgiveness.
The oppressors are those who grant forgiveness to those who cry for it, because the oppressors would never want to bite the hand that feeds, they are incentivized to win their next election, their timelines are as short as their insight is shallow.
The oppressors are those who perpetuate the myths that keep the beast alive. They are the story-tellers, the myth-weavers, and the narrative-producers. That Republican and Democrat represent philosophical differences, that an economic system contingent upon finite goods can produce infinite growth, that freedom can be legislated, we are awakening to the lies by awakening to the fact of our own narratives.
The oppressors are those that absolve personal responsibility for problems they have created. It's always someone else to blame, some other organization, some other individual. They wish to break the causal chain of events.
The oppressors are those that think external salvation is coming, whether that be God, technology, or otherwise. The oppressors will never tell you that it is up to you to change things, because recognizing that, recognizes that you have power, and the oppressors do not want to recognize the power of the individual.
The oppressors believe that humans are resources and that we are here to consume and be consumed. They attempt to turn our biological urges into cash flows through the modern black magic of marketing while making us feel inadequate, insignificant, and empty. Being content with ourselves and saying "enough" with regards to what we have is their greatest enemy.
The oppressors are dividers, they aim to split, to draw us from ourselves, and to pit us against others. They do not want us to realize what we have in common. They draw false dichotomies, they sketch lines in the sand, they will create enemies when there are none.
The oppressors see you as a cell on their Excel spreadsheets, you are nothing but a potential cash flow. How can they monetize your thoughts? How can they place you into a marketable demographic? How can they influence your neuronal impulses so you can buy their poisons?
The oppressors do not care about the environment, they see the natural world as nothing but raw material to be transformed by human ingenuity into something grand. Yet they fail to realize the economy is dependent on the natural world, the natural world cares not whether our economy continues, or whether we do.
The oppressors will make friends with human rights violators, dictators, and terrorists, as long as they remain subjugate to our national goals. They will readily turn a blind eye to injustice, war crimes, and genocide, as long as they recognize their place as a pawn in our games.
The oppressors will use fear as a weapon. They understand that fear makes one suggestible and revert to our primal instincts, they understand that fear makes one unable to think critically, and they will use Pavolvian methods to prompt their desired outcomes. They will propagate crises to jam through agendas which are never to the benefit of the many, they will manipulate, they will use propaganda, and they will deceive.
A Decree
We all share a common fate, and that is death, so while we are here, for this brief cosmic interlude which we perceive as our lives, let us act upon our higher human faculties to make this suffering which we know on the material plane less of a burden amongst fellow man. We can act as medicine for each other.
Our petty differences and boundaries exacerbated by nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and other separatist movements enacted so that we may more firmly define our groupings must be relegated to the past, a past where our internal evolution was not glimpsed nor realized, a past where we did not yet know what it truly is to embrace our humanity.
Compassion is the highest form of self-knowing and is a spontaneous and logical outgrowth, let us all know and act from this place towards others, this will lead to peace.
We were hunters
And foragers
The frontier
Was everywhere
We were bounded
Only by
The Earth
And the ocean
And the sky
The open road
Still softly calls ...
... How perilous
Our infancy
How humble
Our beginnings
How many rivers
We had to cross
Before we found
Our way

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Max-Neef's principles for economics "which should be"
AMY GOODMAN: And if you’re teaching young economists, the principles you would teach them, what they’d be?
MANFRED MAX-NEEF: The principles, you know, of an economics which should be are based in five postulates and one fundamental value principle.
One, the economy is to serve the people and not the people to serve the economy.
Two, development is about people and not about objects.
Three, growth is not the same as development, and development does not necessarily require growth.
Four, no economy is possible in the absence of ecosystem services.
Five, the economy is a subsystem of a larger finite system, the biosphere, hence permanent growth is impossible.
And the fundamental value to sustain a new economy should be that no economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.
Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef on Barefoot Economics, Poverty and Why The U.S. is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation"
We watched the tragedy unfold We did as we were told We bought and sold It was the greatest show on earth But then it was over We oohed and aahed We drove our racing cars We ate our last few jars of caviar And somewhere out there in the stars A keen-eyed look-out Spied a flickering light Our last hurrah And when they found our shadows Groups 'round the TV sets They ran down every lead They repeated every test They checked out all the data in their lists And then the alien anthropologists Admitted they were still perplexed But on eliminating every other reason For our sad demise They logged the only explanation left This species has amused itself to death
Roger Waters :: Amused to Death :: 1992
The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, might now well say of our abuse of it, "Forgive them, Father, They know not what they do." The irony would be that we know what we are doing. When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.
Kurt Vonnegut :: A Man Without a Country :: 2005
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.
Douglas Hofstadter :: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid :: 1979
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert Heinlein :: Time Enough for Love :: 1973

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The [people] are the primary units of the actual community, and the community is composed of the units. But each unit has in its nature a reference to every other member of the community, so that each other member of the community, so that each unit is a microcosm representing in itself the entire all-inclusive universe.
Alfred North Whitehead :: Lecture: Body and Spirit :: 1926
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Charles Darwin :: Origin of Species :: 1872
Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this Particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages.
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley 1954
...our 21st-century global computing platform is still running a 13th-century banking system, and the resulting performance sucks. In any hydrodynamic system, the non-dimensional Reynolds Number characterizes the ratio between inertial forces (the result of mass and velocity) to viscous forces (the result of the inherent stickiness of the fluid). When the Reynolds number reaches a certain critical value, the system changes from laminar to turbulent flow. There is an equivalent to the Reynolds Number for an economic system: the ratio between the speed (and amplitude) at which currency is flowing through the system to the viscosity of the financial medium. The Reynolds number of our electronically-mediated economy has recently gone way up, with destabilizing results. The latest problem is that automated programs — the barnacles of the New Economy — are now trading *within* the frequency spectrum of the turbulent boundary layer. If this happens to a ship, it will slow down, and if it happens to an airplane, it will go into a stall. Where’s the anti-fouling paint?
George Dyson
There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? ....
I think that we are at a crossing in the roads of history, history in the grand sense. One road already appears clearly laid out, at least in its general orientation. That's the road of the loss of meaning, of the repetition of empty forms, of conformism, apathy, irresponsibility, and cynicism at the same time as it is that of the tightening grip of the capitalist imaginary of unlimited expansion of "rational mastery," pseudorational pseudomastery, of an unlimited expansion of consumption for the sake of consumption, that is to say, for nothing, and of a technoscience that has become autonomized along its path and that is evidently involved in the domination of this capitalist imaginary. The other road should be opened: it is not at all laid out. It can be opened only through a social and political awakening, a resurgence of the project of individual and collective autonomy, that is to say, of the will to freedom. This would require an awakening of the imagination and of the creative imaginary
Cornelius Castoriadis