Mind's Eye Re: A Call To Democratic Arms?

The wallet can be the technology/weapon that can destroy who ever is running the world. Stop buying brainwashing junk movies. Stop watching these movies or programs if it is offered for free and paid for by advertisements. Stop shopping in supermarkets, stop buying genetic modified food, stop playing the game. This approach is similar to passive resistance used by Gandhi.

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 4:16:47 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote:

The human world is in a mess.  It's hard to express what is going on.
My guess is we are being ruled by a small, unelected, hidden politburo
we could call banksters.  I take this as metaphor, much as I would the
notion the rulers are alien lizards.  I also guess they have skewed
any dialogue we have to make it very difficult to identify the real
problem we face through argument.  This is more or less a 'Dr Who'
predicament, though I suspect it is the real one we face.

Those of us who are democrats (small d) know the answer.  We want a
human world at peace and our institutions based on real democracy with
government as unobtrusive as possible in the lives of reasonable
individuals.  This, sadly, is the easy bit.  Even something as easy as
this is potentially totalising and fascist.

Much, of course, has been written on this, and my conclusion is this
can't be helping much.  My own country, Britain, has made some kind of
decision to give up empire, but we clearly cling to the coat-tails of
the USA through the dupes or war criminals we elect - or who know a
secret case not made to us that justifies war and other rotten
policies.  If I was capable of listing all the literature I've read on
this matter I wouldn't finish until sometime after a week tomorrow and
I'm by no means a specialist.  Even if the democratic parts of this
literature is right, it doesn't convince me of any course of action,
as almost none of it explains how we might lay down the arms of the US
umbrella without giving up to something worse or simply as bad run by
people less favourable to my ethnicity.

My belief is we must change what dialogue and argument are to address
a move to real, global democracy.  We have new technology that would
allow this, but currently it is being subsumed into the skewed form
that has allowed domination through the ages.  It could be that this
technology would tell us we need the American Empire.  I rather hope
it would rather be a call to democratic arms and very substantial
changes in what we do and can be.  Any suggestions as to what this
technology is or would be?

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