Is it me or do these cops look like Stormtroopers, except in black?
I read Jim Kunstler's "Clusterfuck Nation" each week. A habit that I started when I learned about peak oil. His blog used to be solely about peak oil until the economy was destroyed. Now he focuses there, I think mostly because the current economy really hides what's happening in the oil world. If the American people were aware that Peak Oil was hiding behind the corner, waiting to jump out and pummel any real economic recovery, they would pull their SUV into the garage of their McMansion, shut the garage door, leave the engine running, and wait for the scary future to fade into oblivion. Kunstler's final paragraph this week, where he's continuing a thought on the possibility of all this erupting into violence goes like this:
"I raise this possibility [the possibility of violence] because no one else has, and I think we ought to be aware that all kinds of strange outcomes are possible in a society under severe stress. History is a harsh mistress. For all his 'star quality' and likable personality, President Obama is increasingly perceived as impotent where the real ongoing disasters of public life are concerned, and he has made the tragic choice to appear to be hostage to the bankers who are systematically draining the life-blood from the middle class. Whatever we are seeing on the S & P ticker these days does not register the agony of ordinary people losing everything they worked for and even believed in. In a leadership vacuum, centers don't hold, things come apart, and rough beasts slouch toward Wall Street."
When he says "no one else has," I think he must mean anyone with a wide audience because I've telling people for the last couple of years (even before the Ron Paul Revolution - based on economic factors) that this country is headed in that direction. If you've read Ron Paul Revolution blogs, then you've read plenty of people talk about the fact that violence is a very real possibility. I haven't read about anyone advocating violence but I know they are out there.
At this point, it seems like a no-brainer, if the government continues on its current path. How long can you kick people out of their homes while giving Wall Street CEOs billion dollar bonuses before people start to get a little bit miffed?
Each day, it seems we move closer to that reality.
One of the commenters on Jim's blog said that it won't happen. I don't remember the exact quote but the idea was that Americans have gotten too lazy to bother with violence. They'll just keep on taking it. They'll probably whine a lot thought (okay, I added that last bit).
My hope of course is for a peaceful and deliberate revolution but I think the government will fight change hard enough that people will get impatient or angry and violence is going to be the natural consequence. When voting doesn't change anything, what's left for people in a Democracy to do? When voting has been taught as the only answer to get your way, where are people going to look when that's taken away from them?
They are going to look to the example. The example of their personal world. Living in a country of violence both internally and externally. What is the record for the United States not being involved in violence over seas? I have no idea but it can't be long. Since we got the atomic bomb, it's probably been zero when you consider all the meddling we've done in Central America, South America, and the Middle East. Movies, TV shows, and video games center on violence. War is glorified. Violence is the answer. When something isn't "right", by gawd, we can set it "right" with some violence. Not to mention that who ever has the most guns gets to pick the definition of what "right" is. How handy is that? Maybe the American People will want a little piece of that. Maybe they'll want it enough to fight for it.
Ruling over people with violence will end up in a karmic return. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Violence begets violence. The system stays in place as long as you can convince the people that they have a say in how they are ruled. The graft, corruption, and skulduggery needs to remain unseen by the people. Greed needs to be capped at some point so that the parasite doesn't start killing off the host.
We have passed that point.
How long will the American People put up with it?
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