Its Simple.

 

While reading The IMF connection with the Ukraine Crisis by Probhat Patnaik I was struck by the fact that if one has to invest time and energy into knowing about all the nuts and bolts of how Ukraine is not just a victim of its own hubris, believing that without being invaded it could have been another example of a growing democracy, wanting all the perks of the West and none of the Wests treachery, then life would be simple wouldn’t it?

The IMF is, of course, the monetary arm, or finger, if you must, of the West’s economic fist, giving loans to countries who think they’re punching their own ticket to heaven and just need a boost.

The IMF is always willing to give a boost but with conditions. At first, the conditions seem reasonable, providing incentives to governments to tighten economic monetary policies for the sake of proving that their (IMF) investment is and will remain secure while the country is moved toward austerity and international vulturism rather than altruism, which seems to be what weak countries, and they almost all are weak, want to believe when money reaches out its hand.

In an age of extreme cynicism, many people still believe that money can help all problems.

 The point is that even in the most optimistic scenario—which would require a global ecological revolution on the part of humanity to be achieved, leading to carbon emissions peaking halfway through this decade and net zero emissions being achieved by 2050—the overall climate catastrophe facing humanity will be extremely dire.

The second most optimistic scenario is one of staying below a 2°C increase (somewhere around 1.7°C). It too would require a global ecological revolution. The other three scenarios offered by the IPCC are basically unthinkable, for which the word apocalyptic is appropriate. In fact, we are currently headed toward the IPCC’s most apocalyptic scenario (SSP5-8.5), in which global average temperatures this century would, in the “best estimate,” rise by 4.4°C, which would, according to current scientific assessments, mean the collapse of industrial civilization, raising questions of human survival. In an ominous statement leaked from Part II of the Sixth Assessment Report, on “Impacts,” which will not be published until February, the IPCC says that if humanity is driven into extinction during the “sixth extinction” arising from anthropogenic causes, evolution will not bring the human species back.

Lets look at that for a moment. What it will take.

I can try and unwind anyone’s rendition and breakdown of what is wrong and what is to be done, but Id be fooling myself as well as a few billion people on earth. Our anthropologic scientists tell us that the weather was probably always a factor in determining what we should be afraid of. It couldn’t then and can’t now be fucked with, that is, we can predict what might happen on a weekly or so basis but that’s about it.

Why it happens, now, that’s another matter. No one wants to be caught in a blizzard or a hurricane but neither do farmers and others who depend on some regularity in nature want inconsistent rainfall or constantly wide-ranging seasonal changes.

We’ve built parts of our societies on certain truths and those truths have become entrenched in our beliefs, institutions, and trust in how the world works, our world, the natural world. That’s the spiritual side of the coin. What’s the other side? Well, we’ve come to believe that rather than us changing our demands, needs, and belief in our scientist’s exceptional ability to create technology to compensate for any problem, we have fallen on the sword of MONEY will resolve and solve any crisis. Look how we wage war-weapons, sanctions, technological advancement all supposedly make up for our real lack of imagination and humility.

Lets face it, the world is run by masculinity, patriarchy, and the irrational philosophy of right makes might and might makes men.

All of this is too subtle for me most of the time, yet at other times I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, which I hope doesn’t mean I’m going to die, right now.

It’s simple. Without everything I’ve learned through intelligent reading, conversation, experience, and just looking the fuck up out of my own belly button, I’ve concluded that I’m no different than the cowboygirl, the steelworker, truck driver, maid, dd, brothersister, 8 to 5er, wing and night shifters all over the world, maybe even the mad hatters and made haters.

We’ve all gotten so used to letting everyone else think about what needs to be done, the professional politician, scientists, and MONEYMAKERS, we’re willing to suffer, suffer, suffer without consent. Real Change happens from the bottom up and guess what, we are at the bottom of the heap.

MONEYMAKERS, MONEYCHANGERS< WEAPONS MAKERS. It’s a simple equation. If we allow the MONEY to control the politician, make the demands on us, decide, essentially, who lives, who dies, then we all deserve what we get. And believe me, we will GET WHAT WE DESERVE

 

So what does all this have to do with the IMF or Climate Change? Just one thing, one rule to live by. When your nation, your politicians, your police department, your banks, your armies all come knocking at your door, trying to sell you the same product, you’re being snookered, you’re being used.

It's as simple as that. JUST SAY NO!

According to Stephen Hawking...

According to Stephen Hawking, the purpose of science is to work toward a good theoretical description of how the universe works. The question of whether or not the universe was created by god is not left out because it may seem too fantastic or simplistic but is left there while the theories that can stand on their own are discovered and if, according to science, those theories support the creation principal, then so be it.

Right now I'm reading A Brief History of Time by Hawkings. Getting the opportunity to apply my skeptical, but unscientific mind to his philosophy is a pleasure and so right off, within a few brief pages, I've already discovered a flaw. Not a flaw in his reasoning but a flaw in the a priori assumption that whatever he says there is an element he assumes to exist and like time, is the basis for our attempt at understanding anything. That is consciousness. Consciousness is similar to time, in that its existence or origins or the environment it is connected to, cannot be determined and thus has to be left out like the god created universe theology should be.

So yes, Mr Hawkings does address the notion that we may be just discovering ourselves or other things that we are a part of and more importantly, it isn't clear whether or not what discoveries we encounter will have anything to do with whether or not we survive as a species or not. Still, other animals have become extinct, and it could be concluded that our unique "consciousness" and ability to transfer knowledge by communication written in a book, makes us worthy of a theory in itself for the simple reason that pre-destiny maintains the universe requires a unified theory because we are, or assume we are the end result of billions of years of chaotic, neutral, and random physical reactions, making us conclude we are the center of the universe again.

Objects nearing the speed of light increase their mass until at the speed of light it takes an infinite amount of energy to propel an infinite mass, thus no object can go over the speed of light.

Before I go on, my first impression is this. Can science, which seems more like getting a ship in a bottle, see anything outside of what it has determined “exists”. They already know there are universes of mathematical space between particles of atoms, molecules, and stars, thus room for much error.

Yet, that does not seem to deter us.

It’s my contention that we rely way too much on authoritative science and behaviorists to tell us way more than what we “naturally” perceive to be true. Do we accept all this progress because we still have all the religious fears implanted in our social and physical upbringings that we are really nothing except gifted animals, and maybe not really that necessary for the world, much less the universe, from going on. I believe that’s called doubt.

In other words, will our extinction be a failed genetic exercise, much like the dinosaurs or any other dominant species/genre that at one time held special significance for a certain period.

Like I said, we are unique on this earth anyway, being entities that “believe, we are earth’s destiny, unlike the dinosaurs or any other animal which certainly influenced it’s immediate environment but as far as we know, held no erroneous or unproven consciousness that they were indispensable. Since every other earthly mass extinction, except this one, the sixth extinction, did not hold any special significance to our self- interest, whatever outcome it may have engendered that made it more conducive for our emergence as the “supreme” life form we are, precluding religious directed “creationism”.

Allred’s I Love America

I’ve almost forgotten that America is a highly sophisticated security state. I get the feeling, maybe it’s just deja vue, that we’re living in the fifties again, giving birth to the sixties again. Does Joe bring that on? He’s acting as if America can and will fix all these problems if he had just come along a little sooner.

Just a hunch.

Did Copernicus or Galileo predict that the rise of the national security state would ultimately give rise to a worldwide crackdown on dissent, real democracy, and true equality? Probably not. But Maybe Tolstoy said it because he had such a shotgun type of mind that exposed everything he thought so, it’s possible he more than likely hit upon the concept that everything contrived by preachers and politicians couldn’t be good for anybody. Chomsky probably thinks so too because he also sees the external state of things as they really are and not what people want them to be, so he probably saw it too.

Since humans seem to want to contrive a superior being/species out of this wild process that has been around for billions of years, rather than 6-7000 years ago, we’ve kind of taken the fun out of really discovering how the system works. As long as we want to, or have to believe that somehow, someway we are “god’s little children,” we’ll never pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and tap in to what may be out there ( outside our consciousness or knowledge) to save us.

2024 Road to the Future

2024 Road to the Future

Prologue

In 2024 the nation will elect or reelect its president. It may seem a long way off but the midterms of 2022 are right around the corner and they may set the tone of the general election to come.

Although sometimes it may seem like the nation is in trouble, sometimes not so much, however when we look at the world at large, and not "through a soda straw" as Donald Rumsfeld was apt to say, we can see the large picture the USA pretends does not exist or the picture it merely gives lip service to.

Fascist and authoritarian personalities have come to the forefront of both american and worldwide politics when discontent with the status quo from left and right is high. Ever since covid, the end of the war in afghanistan, the beginning of the war in ukraine (and the beginning of a new cold war), straining of the relationships between world powers, economic policies, global climate change warming as well as warnings, all give rise to a worldwide concern and fear of a dire future, not to mention the internal dynamics within nations regarding the rise of white supremacy, cultural, religious, ethnic divisions, gun violence.

This podcast would concentrate on the American political system's ability or inability to manage its own internal issues as well as its own self-defined leadership role in the world's political theater by using the 2024 general election as a backdrop for both progressive and regressive/fascist/reactionary development.

More on this later.

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The climate book by Greta Thunberg

Back in the ice age 1990s when mobile exxon one of the largest warming producers discovered itself as a climate killer, reneged on its own responsibility and suggested that consumers reduce their own carbon footprint.

The left always seems so insulted that anyone except corporations bear responsibility for anything bad thats happening, as if obsessive consumerism (that is, the compulsive need to purchase based on advertising, enticements, or wealth, regardless of whether or not said purchases are detrimental in one way or another to a persons health, well-being, need, or conscience) is the only reason corporations provide them. In other words, no buy, no product. It has something to do with consciousness raising, which most people, black and white, rich or born, seem to be adverse to.

On the other hand, the right wants us to believe that we have any right,or should have any right to complete individual freedoms and we humans are NOT a danger to ourselves because God, for whatever idiotic reason, loves us more than THEM. This adherence to individual rights does not include equal rights.

Why dont we? If climatE change activists expect mobil and the other climate killers to do it on their own then it will never get done. Gretas book hopes to educate us, but the vast majority of consumers are practically non- literate rather than illiterate, but there is a big difference between the two. Hardly anyone who is unfamiliar with the travails of climate change will read it and be enlightened by it. The problem is all of us who consume, which really makes the solution easy. Dont consume mass quantities of everything. Its like we came out of the pleistocene starving and hating minimalism. Look at any homeless camp and youll be looking at a reflection of mass consumption and mass accumulation syndrome, like a pack rat, but at least, with the rat which has been around through wilderness to industrial age, through thick and through age of reason, through the age of discovery, and through high tech, the rat never eats its entire savings while watching tv, ordering shit from amazon or driving to the grocery store two blocks away and while you're at it drive ten more miles to the mall.

Heres the thing. Without a revolution, nothing will change, period.

To rely on the awakening, wokeness, of any particular group of people powerful enough to create change without the benefit of profit is as insane as anything. Its capital suicide for the capitalists, and im not even sure if the people living high on the hog, feasting on the green pastures of plenty still remaining earths resources, will even allow their masters to act in such a way. 

If you havent noticed, the trend is toward fascism, almost everywhere, including here in the us. We, the people, are the only ones who can stop it, but we,have to give up something, so why do we wait for scarcity to force us when we could just shut down our stupid lawn mowers, leaf blowers, freeways, helter-skelter drive over the cliff like some harassed, unthinking bison herd.

Get out and walk around your neighborhood, talk to your neighbors, dont plot against each other, help each other, and buy only what you need, not what you think you wish for, like a child.

Were a nation of conformists, mindless sheep, penned up by the wolves of the world. Theres far more of us than the murderes, rapists, man-woman haters, weapons dealers, politicians, criminals who all are someones sons and daughters, and everyone turns a blind eye.

Read the book but don't think Greta said any of what I just said. But maybe she's thinking it.

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