Here you go, Life After Capitalism
Erm, no, lol. Not even close. They can kill some or maybe all of the human race. The planet though? It’s been through way more dramatic climate change in just the last 100,000 years than us pesky humans could even dream about causing.
Nuclear Armageddon you say? Even a nuclear winter can only last so long. Modern nukes are much more about blast shockwave, and burning things than spreading radioactive materials anyway. Chernobyl released way more radionuclides than your average bomb, and that was comparatively not a big deal.
The biggest extinction events are always super volcanoes. Short of interference from the outside universe like a gamma ray burst or the sun dying the volcanoes will still be the source of the most severe extinction events. Do you really think we could do something a giant meteor couldn’t? Piss off.
Preventing climate change is all about saving our own arses and the arses of those unlucky species currently stuck with us.
LFG = Looking for group
I think the author intended it to mean “let’s fucking go”
But LFG is how my brain will always read it. (WoW BC thru WOTLK)
If OP is actually looking for allies I can’t help but imagine the comedy drama of some guy getting tricked by a Chinese Psyop into going places and doing things because he thinks he’s a part of some sort of grass roots resistance lol.
“So when are we going to meet up?”
“It’s not safe right now, did you get my package?”
“Yeah, the one with the mandarin on the side?”
“Ignore that, it’s shipped from my brother in San Francisco.”
“That’s cool, my sister lives in LA.”
Revolution sounds fun! If we did a revolution Friday do you think I could get back sometime Sunday? I have plans, and I really would hate to cancel.
I am of the belief that revolution isn’t going to happen, and if one did happen if would only be hijacked to maximize a select set of individuals authority. Capitalism has entrenched itself inside each and every single individual, much beyond the capacity of any one governments control in my view
I believe that the only solution is for each and every individual to reject capitalism, and opt out. That said it is not easy to leave the infinite monopoly game, I reckon sustainable self sufficient individuals or communities are likely the only way to achieve this and each community or individual will have to do this by their own free accord.
And even if there is a will to opt out, which will likely come from individuals almost exclusively, you need land and skills, land which is being brought up by corporations, skills and knowledge increasingly locked behind pay walls. And once you have gotten it all together, you are totally off the grid. Well you still have to convince everyone else.
Although as more people achieve this, the challenge drops. Once a few people have done it joining up gets easier, many hands make light work after all.
As for how to obtain that land and those skills, I suppose then it’s a question of how much are you will to bend or break the law, or risk it all. The Governments role here isn’t all that great, its just to make breaking the law less risky or not a requirement
But hell maybe I’m wrong and the revolution is well on its way.
