Molly Sez

Regarding Earth Day and corporate greenulism:

"I think the key word in all the above is the term "expand." I have no doubt that certain important reforms can be accomplished even in our present political and economic system. Still, if we are to lead a life that is both sustainable and also humanly fulfilling I cannot see how this can be done when we are burdened with an economic system whose very nature demands continual expansion. Neither can I see how this can be done when this drive is mirrored and quite often exceeded by centralized government and its planning. Both the corporations and government presuppose the division of society into order givers and order takers. Any reforms that might come about by their efforts will see the costs borne chiefly by the order takers and the benefits reaped disproportionately by the order givers. That's the way it will be."

Right on, Molly. Right on.

It bears continued repeating: we cannot expect liberty or liberation from an economic system organized around the satisfaction of the needs of command hierarchies. We cannot expect any reforms of that system to intentionally challenge those command groupuscules which "give orders" to the "order takers."

We cannot expect that people who extract labor and resources, as wealth, and who use some share of that extraction to enforce the arrangement, to give up the good ship lollipop.

They play to win.

Perhaps, so should we...