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Fiat lux
45 weeks ago
Let's be careful with the
Let's be careful with the word "revolution". It usually means violence and it usually puts a worse set of crooks into power.
We have tons of historical examples that violent revolutions don't work. The storming of the Bastille just brought on more and bigger problems and worse violence.
At the same time, what we need is a "revolution of the minds", when people stand up and just turn their backs to the crooks running the show, letting them beg and jump up and down and finally screw themselves.
The human mind, used wisely and beneficially to others, and the ecology, is the most powerful weapon, that gives the willies to rulers, because they can't do a damn thing about it.
We can just imagine what would happen when the serfs of the rulers blow the trumpets, calling people to fight for their idiotic, faith based causes and nobody shows up.
Ideologies are dead. It is about time to run the world on physical laws based economics and human rights for everyone, because, so far, history has been the chronicle of incredible human stupidity, destroying each other and the world we live in in the service of nuts and crooks.
Ed Deak.
OhCanada
45 weeks ago
I agree...
... with the above. We need a 'revolution of the minds'.
There should be no surprise that the majority of the people care more about the environment than they care about education.
BC is beautiful and very unique and what we are seeing now is a deliberate destruction of our environment for the sake of profit that goes to a few greedy coporations. Like London-based Fortune Minerals Co. who just made the deal to come and mine coal in BC. I'm just wondering was their any environmental study done?
With the HST and the fact that most businesses are not paying taxes I see why they want us to keep the HST. We all pay for this deal whether we want it or not.
We need to change the way we think if we want our children to live in a healthy world and have access to fresh water, healthy forests and land.
Without a healthy environment we have nothing!
Jerry Munro
45 weeks ago
Welcome to The Barricades...
Join the revolution?!?1 :-)
Hmmm. Whenever I advocate for a "revolution" here, there's a general freak out. Even my esteemed friend Beers, doubtless a "progressive" as he is :-), has never struck me as a "revolutionary"... nor Tyee a "revolutionary rag".
Which is okay. I'm glad y'all have had a change of mind and heart, and are now onboard. Welcome.
Steal from the rich. (Meanwhile, directly tax the living bejezzus out of them, and transfer the proceeds to the poor.) And down with capitalism... and up with social and economic democracy. Make it real.
Again, glad to have you all onside, here at the barricades. :-) lol Ti's the final conflict.
VivianLea Doubt
45 weeks ago
stand up, ye victims of oppression...
for the tyrants fear your might...
Wow, I got carried away by the glorious feel of it all.Thanks for that.
The truth is, of course, these issues are interconnected, and it would be impossible to resolve one of them without the other. One could ask teachers, for example, how hard it is to teach kids that haven't had enough to eat, not to mention that their future looks like several minimum wage jobs just to keep afloat.And spending on health is higher for those with lower incomes. And the lowest income earners have little access to justice. And in use of home energy, lower income earners often have a higher carbon footprint than the rich, by virtue of their old and energy-inefficient places of abode. And that homelessness costs every taxpayer a whopping amount each and every day...
Yes, well, I remain convinced that poverty - gross inequality - is the primary issue of our times, for the others rest upon it. In some inchoate way I agree with Jerry, though - I think it is the final conflict.
Jerry Munro
45 weeks ago
Fishes and Revolution...
"The truth is, of course, these issues are interconnected, and it would be impossible to resolve one of them without the other." Vivianlea Doubt
And a damn fine set of observations, connecting the dots Vivian. For there is indeed a vital interconnectedness at work here between poverty, the declining socio-economic position of the so-called "middle class", the devastation underway in the natural world, growing global war, and the absence of a real social and economic democracy that includes the broad masses of the working class. Instead, what is, is a kind of phantom of the opera mask, a sham "democracy" that is more and more showing its real grotesque, ruling class serving fascist face.
This bullshit chimera order of things really does need to be overthrown, and it all transformed from the bottom up, in a truly, not trite, revolutionary way. Only it won't be done by fishes either... but will have to be carried out by flesh and blood people.
Again, good piece Vivian.
Ricameeka
45 weeks ago
what's really needed
what's really needed is a new way to motivate people. the money aspect of political will keeps the tyrants profiting from our crumb scrounging. The economic money system is a fraud. we aren't going to improve anything until the critical mass accept this.
Jeffrey J.
45 weeks ago
Revolution, 1930's Style
There was virtually a revolution in government in the 1930's. But only after hundreds of thousands of people began starving after the massive failure of capitalism in the 1929 stock market crash. It last ten years and brought in the 8 hour day, five day work week, and sowed the seeds for medicare and a public pension plan.
Sadly, capitalism is much more ruthless today than it was then. It has also adopted highly manipulative techniques to stay in power, developed by Edward Bernaise (grandson of Sigmund Freud) and perfected by the advertising industry.
Can we do what rulour grandparents did in the 1930's? I pray that we can.
falexand
44 weeks ago
Is this just a money grab?
Hey Tyee, I thought you were interested in what your readership thought was important. Why are you now questioning our choices? Maybe you should just come clean and tell us which issues you're not interested in. These appear to be Accountable Government, Energy, Arts Funding ... If you're genuine about this exercise, then respect the way people have voted with their dollars. If not, just ask for a donation to do what you're already doing and don't waste our time and money.