Panic & Gun Ownership Will Effect Climate Catastrophes
..and the Cascading effects of one line of thought
We need alternate supply lines in case of climate emergencies.. mutual aid groups & collectives who are not only aware of food & shelter but alsowe need to consider the “culture of the society,” which sounds dumb to add to the list. But consider how many people in the united states have guns.. there are 120 guns for every 100,000 people.. This is a much higher rate than any other country. By a lot. If you add guns into the mix of any panic situation, you have a severely escalated danger level among the citizens of the affected area. Any mutual aid group acting in America needs to take this into account.
“Good guys with guns are the only way to protect ourselves from bad guys with guns..” So the saying goes. Panic destroys your focus, makes you shake, the good guy taking inaccurate shots is just as, if not more dangerous than the bad guy at that point. This is largely a heroic delusion of grandeur.. a mental break with reality which really needs to be tested for, background check for, etc.
The way we sweep emotional problems under the rug. The way we bury our feelings & traumas. The rugged individualism of our culture is toxic to increasing our odds for survival during disaster weather conditions. Storms which are being predicted of food shortage emergencies, every sector of society is preparing for them.. The stock market is managing for the storms. Whether our government is prepared for it or not, they have explicitly shown us that the well being of the citizens is not their main concern & so the citizens must band together to address our own safety & survival. If the government wants to change & decide they want to help.. we’ll leave that as their prerogative. Because If our government wants to begin to help real people again, that would be great! It’s just that during covid, the government has laid down their hand & they’re showing us that the stock market is their number one priority. & the essential workers don’t need a bonus, & the essential workers don’t need a wage increase. The essential workers in America are on their own. So we must do what refugees have always done. Decentralize.
Mental health has become a red letter event post-pandemic. Suicide rates are rising. The opioid epidemic & mass shootings are jumping right back in the saddle as society opens back up. Wages are terrible, Rent is high. Food & all the insurances. The average family of four is losing $1,000 a month. There is a strong correlation of “poverty economics” (maybe call it Classism or call it Sucking-all-the-money-out-of-people’s-pockets-possible).. Our emotional well-being is crippled because of poverty. All is lost. Why are we not drawing the line from point A to point B yet??
Obviously the national conversation is tied up tight with ribbon & bow by the msm propaganda machine who want us to think that it’s all about abortion, or marriage, or the destruction of the nuclear family.. All while staying dead silent about the real killer. Vacuum Cleaner Economics. Or rather the buying of any large corporate acquisition in order to squeeze the company for all it’s worth. Firing as many employees as possible. Using it as a shell corporation for stock buy-backs. Artificially manipulating the markets so that high frequency algorithm trades can produce their magic liquidity, & bingo bango, Cash at hand.
Why does it matter that a large percentage of our GDP is made from this type of magic slight-of-hand? It produces a positive feedback loop for talk head’s mouthpieces to proclaim that the market is roaring! All is good with business in america. But in the real world things are different. On Main Street USA there is a massive epidemic of depression sweeping the country. There is a massive delusional sense of fear that’s being propagated by power to keep classism & the mentality of “work-harder-or-die” sense of workism(almost as if we believe that people will only work if they are flat broke). This productivity at all costs culture, this hustle narrative, is not only bankrupting us, financially, emotionally, physically, & spiritually, but it’s also directly making slave labor of prisoners. We also have the largest prison population in the world & many of them are in prison for some weed. I’m just typing these things down because they all sound too unbelievable to say out-loud to people. Yes. In this same country, there are multi-billionaires investing in weed companies & also slave labor that is in prison for selling this same weed. A weed which humans have domesticated for thousands of years, just like cows. It’s a straight twilight zone episode for us watching it unfold. But it’s a reality of pain & suffering for the poor souls unlucky enough to be roped up as beasts of burden. Knowing all too well how extremely hypocritical their situation is.
America is like a parent that punishes it’s children indiscriminately.. with no baseline laws that apply to ALL people. If you are selling weed but you’re rich, you have zero to worry about. If you’re rich & you ‘forget’ to pay your taxes, nobody is coming for you. If you’re a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company & your drug “accidentally” gets marketed for diseases that your drug isn’t tested for.. if the profits out way the legal fees that just means a bunch of low-class workers will die who can’t afford good lawyers. This type of complete & utter hypocrisy drives people to mass shootings.
Sickness & Rot of America is the common thread in our 10 year plan going forward as nation right now. From the outside it looks strong. But all the load bearing members are soggy, splintering & termite ridden with black mold in our lungs. We have just got our first glimpse of this madness in the year of accelerating escalating exponentials, 2020. To many, we’ve seen this coming for years. What can we do?
The main thing is to keep calm & know that help is on the way. There is a massive shift happening in the collective consciousness & in the technological abilities we have to completely reshape the way of things. Difficult this is, yet the simple act of reading people’s opinions & noticing the optimism still present is reassuring. Tech like on-demand automated vehicle subscriptions.. This is ONE thing. One of those flip the script moments. There are many others happening just like this, all at the same time.
Intangible things such as unlearning our basic narratives of society. Is money a reflection of Work-Energy? Because it’s obviously not. So what is it that money is? The definition of money has slipped recently.. Our retirement pensions, our unions, job security & our basic dignity to have respect as a human all systematically destroyed over the last few decades.
Truth is, these good times of worker life was short lived in the span of history. Workers lives have always been hell. Since the agrarian lifestyle to industrialization. But we did respect workers once. A couple generations ago. We can do this again. We can do it better too.
With the rise of decentralized block-chain, Ai, & robotics systems at least we’ll be able to minimize the amount of back breaking which occurs for workers. Which is a marvelous wonder of our age. The tech aspect is coming no doubt. But the component that’s still up in the air are the people. How is the narrative of our money going to change with the new revolution? Because it will change.. & drastically at that.
Most importantly, how can we change society safely while everyone has a ton of guns & who also fear change. Any type of revolution is very frightening to folks who are not prepared for them. We must ease people into these new ideas. This is probably one of the most interesting aspects of this whole situation actually. Because making working easier is the entire point of this revolution. If robotics are taking over all hard labor, suffering will decrease. But the major hurdle then is mentally. How can we lose our sense of self identity we have with our work? How do we fill our societal role of ‘provider’?
Universal Basic Income is often times discussed as a solution. I believe the spirit of the changing narrative is present within the ideas of this larger umbrella of the UBI set. But there are questions of how much? Will it include healthcare, transportation, food, rent, etc.?? & most importantly, Who distributes said money. Giving money to every citizen is a fantastic idea until you realize that whoever is the ‘money giver’ has all the power.
In order to mitigate this power dynamic, may I suggest we create a direct line from our stock markets to the people. As a way to reconnect what was long ago severed from us. Hell, it seems halfway fair if you stop to consider that after the bankers & brokers crashed the market back in 2008 who bailed them out with billions of dollars of zero interest loans? Essentially, who was the “Bank” from which you (wall street) borrowed your money from?? From whose money did you (wall street) invest to save your own ass & become stinking rich in the process meanwhile the american people suffer economically now more than ever??
Americans are afraid of this ramping up of poverty. It means ramping up of unrest & more mass shootings. It means an increase of hard drug use. It means the continuing of our record breaking prisoner rate.
Most importantly, it means that this system is not long for a change. This has been a long time coming. People feel the imbalance now more than ever. Inequality has been in the zeitgeist since the grunge angst of the early 1990s. People are learning that this conversation has momentum. People are learning that the energy they put behind a movement makes it real. For all the people with guns on both sides of this thing there is a middle road. It’s called compensation for citizens to thrive. This is the new narrative of money. Because, as with all good narratives, the best stories, circle back around.
