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 so denatured in their behavior 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 reward/survival... but with the onset of free markets, hyper privatization and financialization over the past century, there exists now few constraints as to what is commodified in the pursuit of survival & profit  — t he planet's  natural resources, our health & medicine, our educational institutions,  war armaments, our " ideas" as intellectual property in the form of copyright protections and patents, our most personal intimate "human emotions" have become targets of media outrage, shock, and sensationalism for views and clicks... the free expression of our art & music undergrounds are destined, eventual exploits f