so many new threats in 24 hours

I start out early in the morning with some idea of what i want to write about. Today it was going to be about my grandparents and great grand parents, or maybe about what it meant to perform acts of eco-vandalism 46 years ago, but i get up and read the posts and news and discover the world is marching ever closer to complete chaos.

In the past, when these sorts of crises manifested across large swaths of the planet, most people retained a sense of hope about their futures, increasing memes for peace and great prosperity. Today, we have significant empowered majorities in leadership roles around the continents who have no other concerns but to destroy, kill, and end life as we know it for some bizarre religious memes. We are in deeper and deeper poo poo: economically, environmentally, socially, militarily. Wholesale, privately-funded nationalism is replacing the diplomatic arena, individuals of greater and greater wealth are lining up against one another to lay claim to what is left of the planet and the resources after they insure the death and destruction of most of the population of humans and other species. "Nuke Iran" is a rally cry among what used to be sane and well-intentioned US citizens. Are they out of their fucking minds? But lo, who would gain from nuking Iran? ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco billionaires using their economic and political capital to fund military expansionism to control all of the MidEast oil fields and keep them away from the wealthy asian and former soviet oligarchs.

We are killing thousands upon thousands of native Africans, perhaps several million in the last fifteen years, all through pursuit of mineral and energy wealth. Our neo-feudal lords of capital don't care how many must die to insure supremacy of the resources at the point of guns and nukes and privatized militaries. Desperate US citizens realize that their own financial lives are predicated on these systems rally support for these acts for no other reasons than self-preservation and the preached belief that in the end they will rise to heavens as yet never known. We are destroying the earth, each and every day so that a few very rich folk will be able to leave crumbs of sustainability for their offspring, who will be locked in biospheres isolated from the billions of people dying outside all around them. The biospheres will provide sanctuary from the toxic nuclear and chemical pollution spreading around the earth.

I am not making this up. Listen to their voices on the nightly news and in their blogs. Each time someone advocates for a new amerikan century and killing muslims, mexicans, moghuls, mongols etc., know that the vast majority of these voices have no clue that they too are headed for deaths. When the US economy finally floats belly up, and millions upon millions of people will no longer have any material means of acquiring life sustaining necessities, they will turn on each other and kill those that threaten them, even though the threats are long past existing. It will just be over.