575 all we need to do is believe


Ok, so we've got WWIII and a banking meltdown happening, plus climate change is going to make the whole world look different for your kids. Late stage capitalism keeps trying to keep the party going by printing money and bailing out everything, but more "quantitative easing" leads to money being worth less, ie inflation, and that's what's collapsing the banks. 


Plus, WWIII is of course about energy, I don't know exactly how, but it has to be, because energy is the economy, and the economy is money, and US militarization is all about making sure the dollar is the world's reserve currency. (That way we can print more, or add more zeros to the computer or whatever, and, like I said, keep the party going.) And while we might think that WWIII is due to Russian aggression and China seeking global strength, we know it has to do with the US surrounding and pinning down those other two global powers, via NATO and whatever our Asian partnership is called.


Meanwhile all of this just adds to climate change, which is coming for your kids no matter how much we deny the present effects. 


So, how do we do better? How can we maintain a first world lifestyle while not driving the car off a cliff?


My gut instinct says look around. Learn how to do more with less, the way the rest of the world is. High speed rail. Housing density. Bike lanes. Bike streets. Walking friendly infrastructure. Vegan-ish diets. Spending on the common good. Vacationing closer to home. Paying attention to nature, and our place in it. Fiddling around on our phones instead of, well, doing pretty much every destructive consumer/extractionist thing we can. Recognizing we have abundance, we all like to work to create meaning in our lives, we have the ability for pretty much everyone to live a rich and fulfilled, safe and healthy life. Saying yes. Believing in an unimpeded world of awesome.


So as the government goes about giving away trillions of dollars in the next few weeks in an attempt to keep the late stage capitalist party going, remember this: the money is, was and will always be there, for anything we can imagine implementing. Money is fucking make believe. 


All we need to do is believe.

Peace be with you.

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