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Ramona McCloskey's avatar

Peter, thank you for these brilliant and well researched thoughts. I'll be up all night checking and double checking all the sources you've included here! I can't see anything I disagree with and I'm very much looking forward to your forthcoming article.

It all boils down to our programming being so successful, we can't let go of the notion of needing the state to govern us. The rise of "green energy" within capitalist framework brought that fact to the surface like never before. I can't even wrap my head around people believing that any promise the state has ever made regarding "green targets" was truthful and that there has actually been a genuine intention to reduce our emissions and become sustainable. It just goes to show how little breadcrumbs people need to swallow the entire bait and start enabling and perpetuating the system.

There has never been and there can never possibly be a solution within a violent, extractivist framework of colonialism and capitalism that is by default anti-life (human and planetary). The state pursuing various targets, pledges and treaties will never save us, for it requires us to surrender our power to the state with a belief that we need to be governed and a blind trust that we can be governed justly and humanely. Only we can save us, as a collective that has dismantled and rewritten the framework.

And yet, even with the planet burning at a critical point, those of us who think this way are still a minority - a minority bigger than ever before, but a minority still, with the majority desperately clinging onto their rulers and their promises. We truly didn't move far from the times when we unconditionally surrendered to and believed in the divine rights of kings, we just reframed our language to soothe ourselves with the breadcrumbs of the alleged progress.

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lux cute's avatar

Hello Peter,

I really liked your article. You mentioned you would post the article you were doing this research for after August 16th. I can't seem to find neither link nor article. Is it online yet?

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