Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

Wonderfully articulated, Pego! 

Corporatism (the combination of state power and corporate power), even after thousands of Americans fought and died to defeat it in Italy in WWII, won the war, just as the South won the Civil War after joining the Republicans in Goldwater's "Southern Strategy," deployed by the God of Dirty Tricks, Nixon, as he installed corporatism in the societal driver's seat in the US - and the world, as far as that goes, by creating the Chinese industrial juggernaut.  Republicans never had it so good.  But is this, in fact, conservatism?  What of lasting importance is conserved?  Aren't we observing a giant euphemism?

Nixon culminated the shenanigans of a tiny minority of another tiny minority, the rich.  Watch the old Tim Robbins movie, "Cradle Will Rock" for a true glimpse into how this happened.  When this film premiered, not one of the families of the people shown betraying their country by provisioning Mussolini's New Roman Empire sued Robbins, because what he showed was true and any court of law would have confirmed it in public.  These threads of corporatist power form the base of what has been called the "permanent government" in the US.  The permanent government is corporatist, i.e., fascist, no matter how friendly this iteration of fascism appears.  Goodness and truth lost WWII.  We live out the dreary consequences in our profoundly diminished lives, lives deprived of healthy control of our destiny. 

But it's driven us to the land, into nature, our refuge, our planetary home, and if enough of us learn to maintain (and multiply) its resilience instead of predating its bounty in a cycle-busting trip from the land to the landfill, we can stay here until the sun stops shining and deprives us of the energy we should have tuned our social infrastructure toward in the first place.  At bottom, what we harvest from our food production systems is largely solar energy.  We are utterly dependent upon the sun - and Earth's biosphere.  Life occurs where water, certain carbon-based formations (like vegetables and humans), and sun coincide. 

The Brass Ring of industrialism, money plays the antagonist's role in life, and the US, determined (without a vote) to maintain the economic dominance it attained in WWII, wrapped itself in the pursuit of money for money's sake - and become almost universally despised in the world.  Thus it now costs more than $1 billion per day to maintain a corporatist dominance that hasn't won a single election anywhere on Earth (although the corporatist funded Tea Party may finally succeed at it).  I say that US corporatism is a parasite; a parasite that has devoured Earth's ecological resilience for short-term profits and is now fast devouring global human society just as it devoured their future. 

How do we transform this parasite into a symbiont, thus harnessing its energy for a just, sustainable world?  How do we tend this Invisible Structure so that we might conserve the land that sustains us?  I suggest that we evolve beyond it by moving onto the ecological paradigm, thus relegating its raison d'etre, the economic paradigm, to Deep Irrelevance. 

Smiles.
Tommy
        
On 8/12/10 3:11 PM, Pego Rice wrote:

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To my best info, it has not been since the Holocene period that both the 4+ temps and the complete loss of polar and glacial ice occurred, flooding the oceans with cold water. 

 

I have to disagree about "the species" being so very unwilling to change.  Any group of regular people that has access to the accurate info and not been buried under disinformation have shown a willingness to change when change is at least within grasp. 

 

Our problem isn't in that, but that we have a very active group of corporate propagandists burying our culture in disinformation.   These people aggrandise unrestrained free-market capitalism with an aggressive Cinderella mythology when, in fact, they gut the playing field of our shared commons as rapidly as possible, then accrue as many special laws and special exceptions to laws as money can buy, resulting an a semi-feudal Crony capitalism system.  Almost none of those "Cinderellas" got started without a special "In" to this ugly system.  The news and, frankly all other major media groups are all owned by corporations and corporations are owned and operated by people too rich to feel any connection to the planet or the poor.  This leaves them particularly vulnerable to believing their own hype that, whatever the consequences to this current excess, they have enough money to escape the pain of it.

 

Instead, the people who CAN recognize a problem and change appropriately are being blinded by disinformation right when their actions are most critical.  Outside the US. and a couple other wealthy nations where so many of us are buried in this swill.   All the most obtuse and disastrous decisions have been made by the wealthy.  They think that their money will drive industry and technology enough to just get around it and, heh, make them more money.  It does not occur to these kings and demigods that this may not actually work as a plan, that money may suddenly lose value.  If that doesn't make artificially inflated wealth a problem I don't know what does.

 

 

Yours, Pego