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Peter Kropotkin
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Renewal, reform or destroy...

Post by Peter Kropotkin »

We are clearly at that point where must make choice..
or to be blunt, it ain't working.. politically, socially, economically,
philosophically...the state, in both America and the UK, is in shambles,
the economic status of the America's and Europe/Asia are in dire straits...
and the society in all of them are wracked with problems...

People are trying to hold onto the failed methods of the past,
in religion, nationalism, hate, Capitalism, and all forms of ism's/ideologies...
if the state and the society are having problems, then the solution/solutions
cannot be found in the old ism's/ideologies.. they are the source of the current/
modern problems we face in the world... failed solutions cannot fix our modern
problems...

So, now comes the time when we ask, do we renew, somehow, or do we reform or
do we simple destroy the entire system and start over?

Our political system is now so corrupt whereas I don't see
how a reform or renewal of the political system will do any good...

Democracy no longer exists, here in America or anywhere else in the
world.. Democracy has been coopted by big business and wealthy individuals...
America is ruled by a corporatocracy as is the UK... and I must assume in most
of Europe (I am not as well versed in European matters as I should be)
and certainly, corporatocracy is in charge in in Africa, Asia and South America...
as it has been for centuries..

One of the fundamental problems in our question of renewal, reform or
destroy is the special interest groups and those with a vested interest in
holding onto, maintaining the status quo...if you are getting rich and hold
power because of the hold one has on a system, you have little to
no interest in changing or even a reform of the system...
it is just not in your best interest and therein lies the modern problem
the ones with a vested interested in our current clusterfuck of a society,
state, economy.. have no interest in any change of any kind...

But clearly the system of state, economics, society that we have now,
is no longer functioning.. (think of the rich/powerful who still believe
that the system is working, think of them as the ones in Nietzsche
"ZARATHUSTRA" who still haven't heard that god is dead.. the words still
haven't reached their ears)

Are we still trying to save a dead man by the Heimlich maneuver
or should we just call it a day and start over?

The events of the last 200 years points to failed systems...
from capitalism to communism to the last desperate grasp of religions that
say,

"It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing"

and once modern attempts to recapture that which was lost centuries ago,
"faith"... fail, what poor tales will be told then?

how do we renew or reform or even destroy that which has failed?

Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin
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Re: Renewal, reform or destroy...

Post by Peter Kropotkin »

and I think we are in the last days before another Luther posts
his 95 thesis and ignites another "Reformation" and we see two centuries
of violence and warfare.... by all rights, Nietzsche should have been
the "new" Luther.. and perhaps he still might be...

do not mistake me for another.. for I am not Jesus,
I am John the Babtist... announcing the arrival of another,
a new Martin Luther.... a new "Reformation"

Kropotkin
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