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Aliceinunderland
You're right I haven't listened to/read all your links. But I listened to some of 'Why Big Oil conquered the World', and it churned my gut with frustrated impotence, as I knew it would. I know about this stuff, and it makes me sick with fury (thanks tho, it is really interesting, beautifully made and I'll be buying the dvd. Can I recommend you watch 'Capital in the 21st Century' directed by Justin Pemberton)You obviously did not watch, "Why Big Oil Conquered the World" Or any of the other information I have presented.
I think there is an assumption that because I support the environmental ideology currently enjoying widespread popularity amongst 'the masses' that I must approve of the direction and methods by which this urgent concern is presented and carried out. I have always said (perhaps you didn't see?) I think it is naive to think that by shaking our finger hard enough, we will influence the Oiligarchs and their political allies. But the power in mass-movement is threatening to them because we have the numbers. This is possibly why they've been practising how to eliminate large numbers of us and keep us from breeding.
All I can say is 'lucky you' that you are in a country with still some hope of purchase, that you are a (young?) man with family around you to motivate your altruistic principles. Will you also be getting a gun? (for target practice on the drones). People who have been dutifully paying their mortgages can still be thrown off land they've lived on for generations. The bank foreclosures during the 80/90's across America are still possible for eg., and there was no 'mass-movement' of people to rally and prevent that. Fair use and long-term ownership of a collective nature should be the conditions of entitlement, not just being able to buy in to the banking system of individual ownership.I will be buying land next year, I will have to pay rates but it will be mine. I will be passing to my kids, and they will own it.
It will be outside of a town or city, in what would be an exclusion zone.
There will be no cameras watching me.
The indigenous have a concept of ownership that is collective. For eg 200 people of a Maori 'tribe' they call 'Iwi' can own a piece of land and decisions made include having a say and vote. They know how to share. I think modern urban humans, whether living in human habitations or able to buy 'more space' around them should try it.I don't know what you are talking about with all due respect.
I don't fully understand why you posted a link denouncing Ocasio-Cortez and Robert Hockett's proposition to 'change the entire economic structure' (and which the commentator found so 'alarming'..) Dismantle the Oiligarchs in other words. Is that a problem for you? David, Sam? Are you similarly planning on buying a bit of mountain somewhere, and 'digging in'? How does this save the rest of us who don't have that option?
Be careful it's not another form of 'survival of the fittest, richest, cleverest, selfish etc.'