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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #18
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it tends to be in same sentence
with something called 'democracy'.
It's fascinating how people today seem to believe
that they actually have a relevant
influence on what their government does
forgetting that the very nature of
our system offers everything for sale.
The only vote that counts is the monetary vote
and it doesn't matter how much any
activist yells about ethics and accountability.
In a market system, every politician, every legislation
and hence, every government is for sale.
And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts
starting in 2007
an amount of money which could have changed
say, the global energy infrastructure
instead going to a series of institutions
that literally do nothing to help society
institutions that could be
removed tomorrow with no recourse...
the blind conditioning that politics and
politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.
The fact is, politics is a business
- No different than any other in a market system
and they care about their self-interest before anything else.
I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.
I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.
It accommodates these changes.
I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation
on the part of those who own the country.
I think they see where their self-interest lies;
they see a certain amount of freedom seems good
- An illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year
so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.
Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say
"Oh, I Voted." The limits of debate in this country are established
before the debate even begins and everyone
else is marginalized and made to seem either
to be communist or some sort of disloyal person
- A "kook" -- there's a word...
and now it's "conspiracy"... See - they made that.
Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:
that powerful people might get together and have a plan!
Doesn't happen! You're a "kook"! Your a "conspiracy buff"!
And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system
there are two that repeatedly come up.
The first is this idea that the system has been "the cause"
of the material progress we have seen on this planet.
Well... No.
There are basically two root causes which
have created the increased so-called "wealth"
and population growth we see today.
One:
the exponential advancement of production technology;hence scientific ingenuity.
And Two:
the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy- Which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.
The free-market / capitalist / monetary
market system - whatever you want to call it -
has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents
with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard
grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.
The second defense is a belligerent social bias
generated from years of propaganda
which sees any other social system
as a route to so called "tyranny
with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...
and the death tolls they generated.
Well, as despotic as these men might have been
along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...
when it comes to the game of death
- When comes to the systematic
daily mass murder of human beings -
Nothing in history compares to what we have today.
Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history
have not been caused by a lack of food.
They have been caused by relative poverty.
The economic resources were so inequitably distributed
that the poor simply didn't have enough money
with which to buy the food that would've been
available if they could have afforded to pay for it.
That would be an example of Structural Violence.
Another example:
in Africa and other areas -I'll particularly focus on Africa -
tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.
Why are they dying?
It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.
We have millions of people in the wealthy countries
getting along remarkably well because
they have the medicines that will treat it.
The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS
are not dying because of the HIV virus...
they are dying because they don't have the money with
which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.
Gandhi saw this. He said:
"The deadliest form of violence is poverty."
And that's absolutely right.
Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;
more people than all the murderers in history;
more than all the suicides in history...
not only does Structural Violence kill more people
than all the behavioral violence put together
Structural Violence is also the
main cause of behavioral violence.
[Beyond the Peak]
Oil is the foundation of
and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.
There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy oil and natural gas
in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.
Fertilizers are made from natural gas.
Pesticides are made from oil.
You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate harvest
transport - package. You wrap the food
in plastic that's oil. All plastic is oil.
There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.
Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because
of oil that there are 7 billion people or
almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.
The arrival of this cheap and easy energy
which is equivalent, by the way, to
billions of slaves working around the clock
changed the world in such a radical way over the last century
and the population has gone up 10 times.
But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support
less than half the present world's
population in their present way of life.
So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.
The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
Five years ago it was using four
barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.
A year from now it is going to be using
eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
What's disturbing to me is the
lack of any real effort from governments worldwide
and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.
We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power
and to maybe do something with Tide...
we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient
but there's nothing which really looks like a
revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor
and that I think is pretty frightening.
And the governments who are driven by these economists
who don't really appreciate what we're talking about
are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity
in the hope that they can restore the past.
They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.
So, if the economy improves and
recovers and the famous growth comes back
it will only be short-lived because
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