Any a..hole with a computer and internet connection can get on line and complain until the cows come home or the lights go out for the last time. Rare is the yahoo who will offer answers to our problems. Hell, somebody has gotta do it, so I'll take a crack and throw in my two cents worth. It is hard to know where to begin so how about climate change?
Climate change is real and not a left wing conspiracy as some would have us think. We need to get our heads out of our asses about this but how? The oil guys are in the business of providing energy. There are numerous ways to do this but they are stuck in a black dirty energy paradigm. Nasty, but it pays. What can we do to make alternative forms of green energy pay more? Well, there are tax breaks for going green and taxing more for keeping the status quo. More importantly is the need for more consumer education about the true cost of burning those dinosaur bones; shitty air, cancer and stone cold evil dictatorships just to name a few. If the people demand with their wallets green energy the five sisters of big oil will fall into line. Inform educate!
The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) needs to be morphed into the Exploration and Science Complex (ESC). Yeah, give those suckers something better to do than building ICBM's nuke subs and tanks and shit. What could we accomplish if we used all that money and brain power on creating green alternatives, medical research and space exploration? Imagine creating things that actually benefit humanity and are a real ROI (Return on Investment). How would Iraq and Afghanistan look if the cost of the wars had been redirected to locally driven and controlled improvement projects? This is the way to combat terrorism. As we have seen becoming terrorists ourselves only creates more terrorists. This is not hard friends. What would would happen if we tried the opposite?
Capitalism... Sure I like it because I benefit from it. I'm a "winner" if may use the language of capitalism. I can sit here in my nice warm house and share thoughts with you worry free. I''ve got two cars, a laptop, desktop and even an Ipad. I'm comfortable. But there is more to life than "Me." Let's move higher if you will to look at the problem from above seeing more and more. Here locally, there are people out of work who are being ground into poverty and lack basic health care. Nationally, there's the same building dangerous currents of paranoia and extremism that allowed to grow unchecked will lead to violence; very ugly violence. As we go higher above the problem of capitalism, even larger and more unsettling problems appear. Entire nations are living in endless poverty hopelessly indebted to organizations like the IMF and World Bank. Real people wind up hungry and dying entirely preventable deaths while others get rich. This total dehumanization in the name of making money, I find utterly reprehensible. Can we not reform ourselves or better yet come up with a new system that puts every one's well-being ahead of the profit motive? Yes. In fact, we must demand it before the current system destroys us in an oven of war, an over-heating world and unchecked misery. I may not be such a winner after all and in the long run, definitely not. Don't be fooled, we have the resources to feed and take care of everyone. All of our needs not met because of resource mismanagement and a sense of entitlement too many of us have.
More and more are starting to question long held assumptions the world over. I know I am and will try to add more answers later. Critical thinking is our best hope. Here are a few questions I try to keep in mind:
1. Who is telling be this and why?
2. Who benefits?
3. What are they NOT telling me?
4. What are other possible explanations?
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