I was going for a drive, or just driving back--enjoyment of process blurs the lines--and I was looking at this great neighborhood I live in, or at least close enough to call it my own. It's like Pleasantville driving through, I took a video, and may add it to this article in the future. I was perplexed by how much somewhere else must look like ultimate shit because this place has to look so great. It's the nature of things; it's simple mathematics and science. We have it mostly clean and beautiful, with our lawns, however small and full of weeds--so somewhere else is getting the majority of our shit.
This started with some article about landfills I read in the last few weeks.
The next day I found two videos, that percolated up naturally in my internet catch-ups of the day, and both are shared below. I first found the movie trailer, and then today, the video that is directly below. The movie looks really good. Also, if you didn't know, I can't imagine I'll die a carnivore. There's this new video about pig-abuse, and it's too miserable to share. Even the description of it is like a linear description of evil--all so we can have bacon more conveniently; I'm uncertain this is what is meant by, "life, and life more abundantly." I'm not saying give up killing animals to cook their meat--I'm saying give up the way we've allowed it to become industrialized--I'm sure a lot of people would just stick with tasty veggies, often meaty in their own right, if that was the case.
The messed up thing is that this issue will coincide directly with the impending water crisis. The landfills (just review the language we use!!) have containers with seals that are most likely going to snap open around thirty years--the liability for the companies that put these containers down is twenty-eight years.
So thirty years in the future, when water is already sparse, some seal pops and leaks thirty/forty year old garbage into a freshwater resource through our over oiled soil, the next generations left holding the bag because the previous one lawfully washed itself of all liability.
We're that generation--we choose what gets allowed and push it in a certain direction. Not just with awareness, but with bold action.
I'll only speak of mine, after I've done it--else a quickly written blog with some videos and hypothetical commentary based on loose research is just repeating the cycle of non-resistance; where instead we should be using the tactics and strategy of non-violence against our corporations.
This started with some article about landfills I read in the last few weeks.
The next day I found two videos, that percolated up naturally in my internet catch-ups of the day, and both are shared below. I first found the movie trailer, and then today, the video that is directly below. The movie looks really good. Also, if you didn't know, I can't imagine I'll die a carnivore. There's this new video about pig-abuse, and it's too miserable to share. Even the description of it is like a linear description of evil--all so we can have bacon more conveniently; I'm uncertain this is what is meant by, "life, and life more abundantly." I'm not saying give up killing animals to cook their meat--I'm saying give up the way we've allowed it to become industrialized--I'm sure a lot of people would just stick with tasty veggies, often meaty in their own right, if that was the case.
Let's toss that meal, and then go watch this movie.
So thirty years in the future, when water is already sparse, some seal pops and leaks thirty/forty year old garbage into a freshwater resource through our over oiled soil, the next generations left holding the bag because the previous one lawfully washed itself of all liability.
We're that generation--we choose what gets allowed and push it in a certain direction. Not just with awareness, but with bold action.
I'll only speak of mine, after I've done it--else a quickly written blog with some videos and hypothetical commentary based on loose research is just repeating the cycle of non-resistance; where instead we should be using the tactics and strategy of non-violence against our corporations.
Was the article you read "Hiding in Plain Sight?" Also Its interesting that you wrote this today.
ReplyDelete"I was perplexed by how much somewhere else must look like ultimate shit because this place has to look so great."
today I was working on a journal for nonviolent resistance. I am reading Slavoj Žižek’s book, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. He defines subjective violence as violence performed by a clearly identifiable human agent(i.e.: enacted by social agents, evil individuals, disciplined repressive apparatuses, fanatical crowds) and objective violence as invisible or systemic violence that sustains the standard against which we perceive things as subjectively violent.
i.e.: systemic violence of capitalism, “the ‘automatic’ creation of excluded and dispensable individuals from the homeless to the unemployed…,” (12). He gives this really great anecdote: “According to a well-known anecdote, a German officer visited Pablo Picasso in his studio in Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist ‘chaos’ of the painting, asked Picasso: ‘Did you do this?’ Picasso calmly replied: ‘No, you did this!’ Today many a liberal, when faced with violent outbursts such as the recent looting in the suburbs of Paris, asks the few remaining leftists who still count on a radical social transformation: ‘Isn’t it you who did this? Isn’t this what you want?’ And we should reply, like Picasso; ‘No, you did this! This is the true result of your politics (10).
He goes on to identify the self labeled 'liberal-communists'(mind you he is a communist) as the enemy of every progressive struggle. “the same philanthropists who give millions for AIDS or education in tolerance have ruined the lives of thousands through financial speculation and thus created the conditions for the rise of the very intolerance that is being fought,” (31).
Im not doing it justice...obviously. I highly recommend it.
Here is his RSA about built in charity. http://youtu.be/hpAMbpQ8J7g