Transmission:Community Portal
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eldronc Earth can't digest Uranium By: The Digger
The angry Sun now burns me The mountain no longer stretches her white smile The wind replaced whistles with screams Trees are dieing where we cant hear them fall As the seas prepare for another flood Bleak our seasons dieing sky But enviroment is more than weather Its the lifestyle you lead The first world is the lost world Regressing rather than progressing it learns to leach rather than produce it learns to divide rather than unite it gives the president the status of a king when he is truely a fiend drunk on lies rather than deeds The first world builds streets of blood and sweat to locations remotely set Paving and taring what once produced life Plundering the womb that once bore us life establishing disorder in the order of life The rich bought up the world and left the rest of us dreaming The American dream was left behind battered and bleeding as the New American Century pollutes the remainder of our dignity Bombs are killing people so we can ride in boxes Bombs are killing people so we can have low prices Bombs are killing people while the enviroment is being put in coffins Enviroment ultimatly is the cause which you must effect Like a protester blocking tanks or an activist saving trees We can all be dreamers of heaven on earth by fighting the tyrants satisfied with nightmares Earth is fed with actions your voice is for speaking your mind is for thinking nature is for nurturing as life is for living.
Define Progress
By: The Digger
America has always depended on some form of slavery or exploited worker. Up until the civil war, African Americans were the ones working the fields, making the clothes, keeping up maintenance, and building homes. After the abolishment of slavery the African Americans and Latin Americans were exploited by a government supported race division that aimed at separating classes by race. After the civil rights and workers Union movements, America outsourced a form of cheap labor in 3rd world countries that some would consider a form of waged slavery. This is the process of globalization. Although most low paying hard labored jobs are outsourced, the few that remain are then filled by cheap immigrant workers. These workers are always in constant fear of being deported so they will not file income tax, voice abuses, or demand equal or higher wages. It seems then that America is built on a pillar of slavery. The only way to stop or counter national and international slavery is putting our hands in the dirt and building a self-sustaining America.
What has industrialization done for us? It has caused us to exploit every natural resource for mass production and profits. Filthy rich CEOs and owners of large corporations managed to purchase our democracy and used it to form the military-industrial complex to discourage resistance to exploitation through fear and pre-emptive strikes. It has given us a material based society with no culture to fall back on. Industrialization has allowed us to depend on hard labored workers, whose job is more vital to our survival as a country, whose wages are disproportioned to their importance in society. We have become dependent on corporation's cheap produce, gas, meats, and accessories and would be devastated by a sharp increase in cost.
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The country most dependent on cheap imported products would be devastated to the point of paralysation by depleted resources or resistance to exploitation. This can be avoided or countered through community living. When labor becomes a desired goal rather than an obnoxious task life takes on new meaning. Happiness is exerted through the pores rather than imported through the eyes. Dignity is transparent. One can either harvest the little land surrounding the home or purchase land for harvesting purposes only. Another way would be to reverse the renaissance idea of man improving nature to reestablishing nature in man. A community could uproot unneeded stores, parking lots, roads, and buildings and start re-harvesting those areas for vital food supplies needed on a local level. If one decides to leave the concrete jungle and resettle in organized communities in rural areas they must be aware of several factors. First of all, it would prove difficult due to the overpopulation in the world, but specifically, in the United States. It would lead to migrations into a variety of areas with very little resources left and must reorganize in a wasteland. Secondly, animals and all life must be well protected and respected because the initial transfer could cause serious damage to wildlife populations. We must learn to live in a world without fences. Thirdly, population limits must be set to deter further misery of the left over spawn; or we could redirect âA Modest Proposalâ by Jonathan Swift to suit national needs.
Government then loses a big role in daily life and must be redefined. Corporations have to lose ground because people donât want to buy what they can make or grow. Capitalism takes some form of socialism but a more archaic system is created through self-sufficiency. A confederation of states would be an ideal ideology in these circumstances, because it gives more governmental power on the city and county level, and would restore true democracy. The city now has more power similar to that of a state in a federation. A more direct democracy would exist due to the easier management of vote counting. City representatives would be more direct than state representatives. In a community based society government takes the role of research and development to citizen needs. Government spending can no longer go to international affairs such as militarization of resources. We must all be subject to democracy. We must respond to economic change not with violence but with expanding solidarity.
We live in a globalized society hell bent on self-destruction; but we will fight this with simplicity. We must make our own things for self-satisfaction and profit. We must strive to be self-sufficient; this will help to have a worthy dignified life (one worth living). We must redefine government in a post-globalized world. Redefine its position in society and redirect goals.
