Bunker in and let the world fall apart!
(This is an overall exposition of my ideas, aka Wisdom of the Jungle.
It's not my style to be long, but challenges such as these deserve proper attention. Perhaps someday school children will be avidly reading stories of the jungle such as these. I don't think even Dalai Lama can be this deep --or free) On Nov 8, 4:44 pm, Deidzoeb wrote: On Nov 8, 3:29 pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Free Spirits of the Jungle" wrote: On Nov 8, 3:02 pm, Deidzoeb wrote: The thing is to lay out the SOLUTIONS that even a monkey can follow.... I read some kind of anarchist article suggesting that if we organize communities well enough and they thrive and become really successful, there would be no need to persuade other people or lobby to change the system or society or the govt, because people would want to copy those techniques and make their own communities successful and thriving. Awesome theory, but I'm afraid some people are so dumb they wouldn't notice, or so greedy they'd want to keep being capitalists. The thing, my friend, is the capitalist lion doesn't want competition. Too many of those tired of our communities breaking down would rather live in a kibbutz or similar enterprise. Chomsky sometimes mentions kibbutzes as examples of anarchist communities that have been successful, although he has said the modern ones in Israel have turned right-wing, if I remember correctly. I don't know much about them. They are also places where people move for SAFETY. The lion can't provide us safety, we must look for ourselves. I'm sure there's no place for the homeless either. I really don't understand how these rich capitalist societies can't deal with their own homeless and then dump the problem to charity. This charity then is tended by the churches where they manage the food, and WHOEVER CONTROLS THE FOOD, CONTROLS THE JUNGLE... (yet another story) HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY One day all the little animals went up to the King of the Jungle and complained about their poverty, and in particular about the fact that every time, during the dry season, they had to travel long distances to drink the precious fluid, and demanded a WATER WELL be built for them... They cited how the resources that they contributed to the kingdom were wasted in WARS and EXTRAVAGANT PROJECTS to the tastes of the King... He, however, replied with all kinds of excuses: the lack of resources, that it wasn't a matter of him not wanting it, but that it was a matter of "priorities" --which was one of his favorite words... Meanwhile, an Owl --who had very good eyes-- had been observing life in the jungle, and thought this way: "Every time there's a dry season the little animals must come to the little dirty waterhole where the Lion waits for them... Had they been well fed and strong, he would have had to run after them and even risk resistance. And, more importantly, the little animals are forced to fight the Lion's wars as the quick way out of poverty..." And that's how the Owl landed an important --and well paid-- post in the brand new Astronomy Department created by the King of the Jungle -- to the effect of exploring life in other planets... One thing we can do is fund and educate the people with Credit Union funds, which is people's money anyway. Imagine that possibility for those surviving at the edge in Mexico. Hey, but there would be no cheap labor for America! The secret is that we could easily afford products made with expensive American labor, and afford to feed, clothe, shelter and educate everyone in the world through high school and up to college if we chose to spend money on that instead of wars and fantasy missile defense systems. All these issues are as complex as the jungle, so my model helps in understanding the complexity and inter connectivity of the problem. Yes, stopping that waste of the lion will help provide water for all. Notice I'm not for multiplying the aid to Africa. They must grow their own rice and beans, which they can. We can help them with technologies and know-how though. I don't know what the solution is to helping everyone around the world have good standards of living, because if we try to keep manufacturing jobs in America, are we taking jobs away from Mexico and China and elsewhere? I don't think jobs are necessarily the solution anyway, because that might be helping capitalists make more for themselves, not necessarily helping workers get what they deserve. Buying a big SUV certainly doesn't help anyone and I'm yet to see American workers refuse to make them. So let the SUVs go the way of the dinosaurs along with anyone behind them. I often see towns dependent on the military industry fight for their jobs. Hey, let them eat peanuts. :) Like I see these bumper stickers: "Out of work yet? Keep buying foreign." Okay, I'm glad they acknowledge that the free market is full of fail and they need subsidies to keep businesses afloat. (Choosing to buy American is like a subsidy, because you're sacrificing some extra money to pay for a product you could get cheaper from somewhere else.) Although they wouldn't admit it's a subsidy. You must make a conscious choice as to what lion to feed. Cheaper prices make you forget you are feeding communism but it's still real. But let's say I spend an extra couple thousand dollars to buy a Ford that gets lower gas mileage and maybe isn't as reliable as a Toyota. That would be subsidizing some American workers at Ford, but it's also subsidizing American capitalists, people who are going to profit from Ford but who don't do any work to deserve it. Why do I need to subsidize those parasites? If I was going to subsidize American jobs, how about a company that was owned and managed by the workers who deserve it. That's choosing NOT to feed any lion. There was a bicycle manufacturer from Oregon producing recumbents, but I think the competition from Taiwan made them quit. I'm not against competition from Taiwan where they have a better healthcare system than America. They also produce very good scooters, something we could be using more. (Not sure of their carbon footprint though.) I don't know how to boil this idea down to fit on a bumper sticker response though. "Still buying American? How's that working out for ya? Have they been loyal and kept you working even in hard times? Are you supporting the workers or the rich people who can afford to invest in Ford?" And you are feeding Climate Change as well. Ugh. Here's the lion... THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Once upon a time, in the deep jungle, lived a Lion and a Monkey... One day the Monkey, tired of the Lion taking the LION'S SHARE, and seeing that such injustice represented a danger to all, demanded JUSTICE... The Lion, yawning and stretching, said, "You would have to have paws and sharp teeth..." Then the Monkey, who was very clever, devised a plan: He would go to the costume store, and look like a lion... When the HUNGRY LION saw him, noticing that the new lion wasn't a match for him, and fearing COMPETITION, killed him on the spot -- before the indifferent look of the little animals of the jungle... And that's how the Law of the Jungle was re-established one more time... (NOTE: Other monkeys survived him...) Yeah, I don't know how we declaw the lions. And violent revolution would probably just replace the old lions with some new lions (given that the people who could best carry out violent revolutions are lion- ish). We must pacify the beast and give him a banana, a symbol of peace in the jungle. ;) Dude, have you read any stories by Subcomandante Marcos? He writes little parables about cockroaches and stuff, they're pretty cute and manage to get across political ideas. Sounds right up your alley. Or maybe that's where you read some of this? These jungle stories are mine and have led to this funny character of Wise TibetanMonkey. Well, even Buddha is being questioned. They gave me a tough choice: "Do you want to be a Monk and live without sex?" And I said, "No way, I'd rather be a Monkey!" Anyway, I haven't read SubComandante Marcos --I'm ComandanteBanana-- but have read this Mexican writer, whose most famous story I reproduce: The story reads, in its entirety: Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. ("When [s]he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Monterroso *** Don't you wished this DINOSAUR went away? ;) |
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