Shocking

It's pretty shocking of course that the elite class and their politicians are blatantly looting the public commons and squeezing everyone to feed the voracious appetites of the rich and powerful. Tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, removal of collective bargaining, cutting environmental regulations and enforcement against big polluters, bailouts for the banks, approving untested genetically modified foods, doing less than nothing about climate change, bank bonuses swelling, retirement age going up, new wars for resources (you're next Libya), expanding jails for dissidents, security certificates and secret jails, purchasing elected officials, food price rises, the toxification of the environment, extinctions of species, the list goes on. Before it was pretty hidden but as the long emergency unfolds before us they get more bold. Take what you can boys, the party's over!

What's more shocking though is that people aren't standing up against it in a bigger way. The democracy we've been sold is rotten to the core. Just look at the Conservative Party of Canada. The civilization we all love is killing the planet (don't take my word for it, open your eyes and ask some tough questions).

You'd think that people just didn't care. It's not quite that bad. Just our hearts are broken and we can't connect with one another. Hence my blog posts and your Facebook profile. But if I tried to have a meeting to talk about these thoughts, the cops, those protectors of the collapse, would be all over it.

But at some point something's got to give. Maybe it will be one more handshake between a politician and his corporate owner and whispered thanks caught on tape. Maybe the corporate media will make a mistake and actually do something ethical and ask some meaningful questions. Or maybe the price of oil will rise too high and we'll realize that industrial civilization can't continue to decimate the planet without it. Or maybe someone will stand up and start our fight back. Or all of the above.