249) Day 17 -- Reason #17 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political corruption, Part 1
A man is known by the company he keeps. — Aesop
248) Day 16 -- Reason #16 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: David Suzuki
We are the Earth. This is not just a slogan. It is one of the deepest, most robust and profound facts of human existence.
And yet, we have built a civilization largely in denial of that fact.
247) Day 15 -- Reason #15 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
I remember reading articles about the coming insurance-catastrophe, THIRTY YEARS AGO, circulated amongst the re-insurer companies — which are ginormous pots of money that insure the insurance companies.
The re-insurers knew, decades ago, that climate change costs for insurance companies were going to rise to uncontrollable levels in the near-to-medium future. Which is happening…now. Literally now, in 2025.
246) Day 14 -- Reason #14 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Let's talk about Slavery in North America in the 21st century
Except, oh fuck, slavery never really ended. The cotton-plantation version of it that we’ve seen in movies, did end, sort of. But what really happened to slavery is that it EVOLVED. It metamorphosed into something that doesn’t sound like slavery any more, but still is. It got re-branded.
245) Day 13 -- Reason #13 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: "53 days"
Using ENTIRELY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS, one step at a time, Hitler dismantled the German government, and replaced it with his own authoritarian dictatorship.
This process, from Chancellor to Dictator with absolute power, took 53 days.
244) Day 12 -- Reason #12 to revolt against predatory capitalism
I am reminded of Pascal's wager with regards to hell. If you include the possibility of "infinite suffering" as the outcome to a choice, then that choice is insane, even if the chances are pretty low.
But the chances of mass destruction and infinite suffering due to predatory capitalism are not low. They are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
Humans have created a system that ONE HUNDRED PERCENT GUARANTEES unimaginable suffering.
243) Day 11 -- Reason #11 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
These are still the early days of extremist control over YOUR freedom. It gets worse from here. We are entering a hellscape of CONTROL, under the guise of FREEDOM.
242) Day 10 -- Reason #10 to revolt against predatory capitalism
If you give people something, like a button to press, that they BELIEVE exerts some control over an outcome, people will press that button and CONVINCE THEMSELVES they actually have control. Even when the outcome is completely, utterly, uncontrollably random.
241) Day 9 -- Reason #9 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
The environment is our air. Water. Heart. Lungs. Mind. Community. Family. Peace. War. Starvation. Abundance. Genocide. Ballet. Sports. Music. Grandmas and Grandpas. Laughter. Love. Hate. Acceptance. Intolerance. Greed. Ethics. Sex. Beauty. Joy. Freedom.
240) Day 8 -- Reason #8 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
Facebook, Instagram, and obviously X (ex-Twitter) are brainwashing us, en masse, and we’re becoming increasingly horrible to each other, as a society. “Follow the money” to see why this is happening.
239) Day 7 -- Reason #7 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
How does it feel to remember that your TIME, that is, your LIFE, has been sacrificed to make other people rich?
238) Day 6 -- Reason #6 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
The predominant message being given to Canadians and Americans about “cutting regulations” is, quite simply, bullshit. It is a lie. But it’s great for serving the DONOR$ who give tons of $$$$ to political parties and to politicians privately, and on whose boards politicians go and sit after their political career is over, raking in even more $$.
237) Day 5 -- Reason #5 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
You know how there’s all this talk about Canada’s “terrible carbon tax”? You know how Pierre Poilievre and his ilk are telling Canadians that the oh-so-hated Carbon Tax, evil machination of Trudeau, is driving inflation and making us all struggle to afford food?
Well, it’s just not true. It is a bald-faced lie. But it sure gets voters to hate the Liberals, eh?
236) Day 4 -- Reason #4 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
We are told “this is inflation”. It’s not. It’s corporate greed. Turns out that disasters, like COVID, are great smokescreens for gouging the public and getting away with it.
In other words, our corporate masters wait until we face deep challenges in society, and then ….they help us. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Just kidding.
235) Day 3 -- Reason #3 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
You work your butt off, 40 hours or more a week, week after week after week, to barely make ends meet.
And they make that money in ONE DAY.
234) Day 2 -- Reason #2 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
Over and over and over, everywhere that Conservative “pro-business” “common-sense” “efficiency” rhetoric takes hold, it means only two things….
233) 365 Days, 365 Reasons to Revolt Against Predatory Capitalism: Day 1 -- Reason 1
This goes FAR beyond “left vs. right” politics. This is about basic shit, like Freedom. Human rights. The ability to live in a world of beauty and culture and safety and peace, rather than a prison of control and violence. We are entering humanity’s last stand.
232) The beginning of revolution is knowing what the hell is actually going on: Let's start with the Military-Industrial Complex and how it controls our governments
Civil society at large (i.e., you, me and the rest of us) needs to start learning in-depth about the way that the “state” (i.e., our governments) is controlled by war.
231) Who, really, are your friends? Some reflections during the often-weirdly-lonely holidays
Truly, we’re never alone. And when we feel we are and that nobody cares, I suspect all it takes is some courage to reach out, and the social web responds, helping us realize that we’re embraced in a web of friendship, far greater than we generally appreciate.
230) The Salvation of Eden, Chapter 55 -- Getting better at not falling down?
Melkorn was the perfect student, at least as far as effort and enthusiasm were concerned. No matter what happened, no matter how many times he fell, he never gave up, never got frustrated even. He just kept trying.