Most problems are like bullets, you can’t really run away from them. For example if the Perma-Frost in the Arctic Melts and releases twice as much carbon than humans have ever emitted.
Nobody can run away from that.
Americans born in this country don’t really comprehend how powerless refugees are and what it would be like becoming one. Well bankruptcy and homelessness is a huge first step. It’s ironic that Americans worship a God in human form that was all about helping the poor and powerless, yet they run away from that. But they can’t outrun bullets. And they can’t really outrun the truth.
Even if it is hidden in a book.
But the proof of climate change is before our eyes. We can all pretend like Paris flooding and Puerto Rico without power for months is normal. It’s not. The Oligarchs are preparing for all the new normals ahead by hording wealth and resources. But even they can’t really outrun this bullet.
As far as collapses, this is far from our first rodeo. A society can only survive so many bubbles and so many disasters. After a while can we even call them natural disasters, acts of God, or even disasters at all? You can call it November.
We could have actually fixed this. We could easily have prevented this by not burning up all these fossil fuels when better options were available through out the 20th Century, when we inflicted all of this damage.
But what can you expect from a species that had a War to End All Wars, and then the same generation that fought in the trenches, let a second one happen that actually ended with a bloody doomsday weapon. You know the one that we are still trying stop, that we won’t let anyone else drop. Made from the poison that has already poisoned our crops.
We are a society that crashed the World’s economy in 1929, which in some ways helped set off the Second World War, and then in 2008 we repeated the very same mistakes.
And we don’t think it’s going to lead to another War.
But what’s worse we jumped right back into the same damn Real Estate bubble with the most bankrupt-able and corrupt Real Estate goon in the World as our President.
We elected the worst American among us, which in some ways is quite an achievement.
After a huge economic crash with a crash test Dummy behind the wheel, eight years later we elect a complete fraud, backed by the same people trying to sell us on the idea there is no Climate Change. They tell us that Environmental Laws are bad for business as cities are destroyed by Climate Change. Even China is trying to do SOMETHING about Climate Change, like make Billions helping us at least try to prevent it with solar energy.
Our village idiot is still talking in terms about global warming, which a 6 year old would correct if she had the chance.
“Mr. President sir, can I tell you the difference between Global warming and Climate change?”
The imminent crash of society will cost us Trillions. Maybe a billion lives. And this is not something we can just rebuild. We almost went off the rails in 2008, and now we have a President that doesn’t know there are rails. At one point our DNA tells us a story that we were down to 40,000 lives. You don’t want to go back there. Well you won’t, because you and everyone you know will be dead. Eventually that happens after good lives are lived and our wisdom lives on, with the finger prints of our positive existence left upon our culture. Or not. Donald Trump represents quite the opposite.
I don’t want to write these Jeremiads. This isn’t fun. But it is one way to stay sane. Because this situation is not only untenable. It’s insane.
A society that already hails a massive tax cut a success, before the any of the boots have even dropped. If the economy was an exotic dancer, we are feeding he or she pounds of crack and marveling at the results. But the pole is greased and the kitchen is on fire.
I don’t want to be this guy. I just want to sing in a band and stay in my lane, and do a few benefit shows and talk about Unity. But this can’t be THE REAL WORLD. Well maybe it is. This is what happens when we let HUMANITY become a reality TV show. These kind of shows that burn through all the preposterous plot lines will get canceled.
– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many musical ventures and is one of the driving forces behind the Staxx Brothers. He will be partying in Kingston, Jamaica momentarily.
