Revolution?

Work is hoping to send someone out to pick me up, but if you look at the last photo in the next post, you will notice our street, Linn. This morning it is a sheet of ice. So, while I wait for a call back, etc., I will write a few things that have been on my mind lately.

Shusli and I watched a movie about Che yesterday called..."Che." It was not a good movie and didn't convey the spirit and ideals of Che like I would have should I have made a movie about the man, but I have no movie making skills. So there.

I've also been reading the book, "The Bookseller of Kabul," about just that.

I've also started listening to a book on CD checked out from the library, "Power, Faith, and Fantasy," about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East since 1776. It is quite the interesting history and something you will NOT get in U.S. school formats. Quite telling.

I listened recently to "Night" by Eli Weisel, about his experiences as a Jew in the Nazi Germany death camps.

Shusli and I started watching the documentary, "What a Way to Go," on Youtube. We got up to part five last night.

All of the above media have a strong influence in my thinking as of late.

In the movie it is made mention of Che saying basically that wherever there are oppressed people, that is where he is from. There are oppressed people all over the world, women especially. Women are oppressed in ALL alleged civilized cultures and pretty much ALL religions. People of color are oppressed. Indigenous folks are oppressed by colonizers and neo-colonizers. The poor are oppressed. It is all over the world. We are citizens of the world, and the world is being destroyed by greed.

"The Bookseller of Kabul" is about a bookseller in Kabul, somewhat of an anomoly especially since he survived the Taliban regime. The oppression of women is horrific, but women everywhere experience oppression. Not to minimize what the women in Afghanistan experience, since it is about the worst, but women everywhere are treated as second or lower class. Always less than men.

"Power, Faith, and Fantasy" is the history of U.S. dealings with the Middle East since 1776. It is quite interesting as it is history I have never heard. It is important history as the dealings with the Middle East is what made the U.S. decide it needed a centralized government and influenced the writing of the U.S. constitution and the starting of what has become U.S. global military dominance over the world.

"Night," a rather horrific detailing of life in a death camp, has strongly influenced my thoughts on denial. The power of the mind to pretend that, "things can be worse," or "things can't get worse," or "they won't do that to us (even while it is happening)," etc., is rather curious. Denial, believing that such inhumanity doesn't happen or at least can't happen to you even while it IS happening is rather horrific. Folks will live in denial about all the horrors as long as they are fine or can PRETEND they are fine, at least for now, at least temporarily.

"What a Way to Go" is a great documentary that lays the global horrors at your feet. It even talks about denial and how we are distracted from what is really going on in the world.

I look at the faces of the citizens of this nation immediately around me and I know that Revolution is virtually impossible. I can see in their faces that these folks, even in the face of martial law, will still tell themselves that this is the land of freedom. Their will be no resistance from them and they will fight any resistance that raises its head to struggle against corporate domination of our lives.

Revolution? Maybe. I still believe that all of our fellow human beings should be treated as such. The wealthy will still pay our fellow human beings to keep us down so they can steal everything from us. Mostly, now, I believe I have to think outside the box...we have to think outside the box. What are we gonna do to save and survive in our world. This world is ours, what are we gonna do about making it a good and healthy world for future generations. Thinking that a majority of folks will wake up the more they suffer...it's just not gonna happen. Look at the folks in this nation. It will take them years to wake up. We need to think outside of the box. I can't just hope I'm wrong about folks. What are we gonna do? We need a revolution that will actually concern itself with the needs of the world and all life on it. We'll see what happens when the collapse really starts effecting people in the immediate vicinity. It already is, to an extent, but we'll see.