Where Are We Going to Keep the Chickens?

America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite’s rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us. Tens of millions of people, brutally controlled, will live in perpetual poverty. This is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. The stimulus and bailout plans are not about saving us. They are about saving them. We can resist, which means street protests, disruptions of the system and demonstrations, or become serfs.

This is from Chris Hedges recent post at TruthDig.com.

As the thieves get richer, and we find out that our rendering unto Caesar isn't going to pay off, we need to think about where we are going to keep chickens, goats, cows, and other domestic animals in our urban environments. Either that, or we need to start hyper-miling, er I mean hyper-caloring. In other words, what are the easiest foods to grow that have the most sustanance in terms of growth and resource efforts. What can we eat that is the most nutricious on a human level for the environmental stress on the planet? Six billion people with pitchforks will not be pretty if there is not enough food to go around. And if you are still sporting that AIG t-shirt from that golf junket last July, why not paint a bullseye on your forehead.

Basically, our economy is shambles, the earth is wounded, and the smart people are babbling like the guys in Ward 3. The not so smart people are holding tea parties -- pinkies up I say! Labels, agendas, slogans, and schools of thought will take years to implement. We need something quicker. We need action building a new society from the ground up. The sooner we do this the fewer people are going to die. We don't want another two or three generations wounded and scarred at the dna level before we can start building a better world. Lets start with the basic american principles of honesty, sacrifice, and pulling together for the community. So it has to start with the community. If you build a better society, they will come. If not, it is game over. The Camusian imparitive on a global scale.