Concerned Citizen

To add to da Vinci's wisdom here— and to simply “do anything” is not enough either... We need to discriminate between priorities of action; given the combined severity and urgency of problems we face and fact that time and energy is always in short supply. We also have to be clear on "why" we're doing things, and the true intent behind our actions.  A lot of activism becomes just about “feeling better” and “being social”, or to serve some aspect of identity as an "activist" that’s "doing something/anything”. It becomes more about meeting our psychological needs, than about genuinely, intellectually and strategically wanting to solve the problems of society. Alternatively, we also can't cerebrally live in “theoretical land” forever either, with our proposed visionary models we think society should adopt, perfecting where every nut and bolt will go in an idealized system. We have to be pragmatic too, in facing the here and now cultural and institutio...

When Palestinians cry “Where is the World?” they’re met with the dark reality that there is no sane, functioning collective “system” in place on Earth. The world is a "war system" which devalues everything in terms of profitability, run by financially captured superpowers who answer to no one. Historically people will look back and say WHAT WERE YOU DOING during that historic genocide and those last decades of an inhabitable Earth?  What’s required is that we put aside our differences to organize on a large enough scale to change the system. We need to recapture power of political decision making processes from the hands of private corporations and political lobbies, so we can change the core functions of the system, so WE can make the rules, and redesign society based on scientific principles and cooperation to meet human need. 

Everything has been commodified under Market Society, devaluing all we hold dear. People have become denatured because we don’t “value” anything. Everything is bought and paid for, nothing is inherently sacred or important; we are losing all true, tangible value. For millennia labor has been intimately linked to one's reward/survival, in effect "commodifying" ourselves and our labor for economic resources. As market capitalism has evolved over the past century, with the complete privatization and financialization of society, there exists today virtually zero constraints on what we'll make into sellable, marketable product in the pursuit of profit and survival in the system—  the planet's  natural resources...   our healthcare and medicine... our educational institutions...   our creative ingenuity  in the form of copyright protection and patents... our activism as mere occupational paths... the spreading of ideas and information in and of itself in the form of ...