"Don't feel bad, most species of large mammal die off ... it's just our turn."
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Dr Herb Ruhs is The Compassionate Misanthrope "Don't feel bad, most species of large mammal die off ... it's just our turn." |
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If we are to avoid another civil war by Herb Ruhs, MD A people without knowledge of its history is like a tree without its roots. A people, like the people of the US that have had a false history forced upon them is like a rootless, defoliated tree on its way to becoming fire wood. One of the things I always like to ask folks who wish to discuss US politics is where they learned their US history. For most it was high school, which virtually guarantees that they have absorbed a mass of lies and deceptions about the past that rules our present (read Lies My Teacher Told Me). I am always surprised and even thrilled to learn that these days some high school US history teachers are using Zinn's A People's History of the United States (which has now given birth to a wonderful series of "People's Histories" from The New Press. At this point in our history Zinn's book should be required reading for all citizens.
Then as now, economics is destiny. Now as then, we are divided between people who's economic fortunes are lined up behind concentrated corporate power and those whose fortunes are dependent on economic autonomy. Even in the so-called Civil War the sides were divided between those people and states whose fortunes depended on concentrated wealth based on an commodity export economy of plantations and slave-trading, and those whose concentrated wealth was dependent on industrial production and cheap emigrant labor. Now as then, the nation is divided between those who see themselves as dependent on concentrated wealth (an increasingly narrow segment of the most fortunate of the population) and the rest of us, who are seeing our futures, and the futures of our children and our children's children, foreclosed. One group benefits from the debt slavery of the others. This is an unstable situation that is all too common around the world. It would be less common elsewhere in the world, were it not for the efforts of the dominant class of the US to impose hegemonic imperialism on the rest of the world by means of a massive military paid for by imposing multigenerational debt on ordinary US citizens. I will be surprised if the US avoids another civil war, because the dominant classes, as in our two previous domestic civil wars, are not likely to surrender such massive power willingly. If we are to avoid another civil war, this one fought over wage slavery and debt bondage, we will need to come together in such massive numbers, and with such intense solidarity, and with such passion for real patriotism (rather than the ersatz propaganda vision being fed to us by a traitorous mass media) that we form an irresistible force. We will not win this struggle by means of violence; we will win it by capitulation of the narrow minority who are brought to the understanding that they can no longer continue with their crimes. A people united will never be defeated. Herb Ruhs, MD PERMANENT LINK  | Latest entry | Recent entries | Older entries |
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