http://truth-out.org/news/item/29930-oceans-in-crisis-one-woman-will-cross-the-pacific-to-raise-awareness
I am an admirer of Dahr Jamail’s reporting. In this article, Oceans In Crisis, Jamail tells us that we are losing the oceans. He reports on the human destruction of the oceans. It is a real destruction with far-reaching consequences. That fact is indisputable.We Are Losing The Oceans
From my perspective the human destruction of the oceans is yet more evidence of the ruinous nature of private capitalism.
In capitalism there is no thought for the future of the planet and humanity, only for short-term profits and bonuses. Consequently, social costs are ignored.
Capitalism can work if social or external costs can be included in the costs of production. However, the powerful corporations are able to block a socially functioning capitalism with their political campaign contributions.
Consequently, capitalists themselves make the capitalist system dysfunctional.
We may have reached the point where the external costs of production are larger than the value of capitalist output.
Economist Herman Daly makes a convincing case that this is the fact.
While the powerful capitalists use the environment for themselves as a cost-free dumping ground, the accumulating costs threaten everyone’s life.
It appears that nothing can be done, because the oceans are “common property.”
No one owns them, so no one can protect them and their contents.
What we are faced with is the most destructive force in history: the short-sightedness of humans.
Humans are willing to destroy the environment that sustains them, the law that sustains them, the truth that sustains them. Indeed, humans will destroy everything that sustains life if they can raise their incomes for another quarter or another year.
I have a friend who regales me with stories that humans are aliens on planet earth, exiled here by an intergalactic government that unwittingly disposed of its criminal wastes on a planet teeming with life.
The inhumans, not humans, have been busy at work ever since their arrival exterminating one another, other species, and the life of the planet itself.
In the Western World truth is dying.
Corporate and government money has purchased many scientists along with the media and politicians.
The independent scientists who remain have great difficulty obtaining funds for their research, but the corporate scientists have unlimited funds with which to lie.
Scientists, like journalists, advance their careers by lying for the Establishment.
Truth-tellers and whistleblowers are defined as “domestic extremists,” “terrorists,” and are on watch lists.
Some have been arrested on suspicion that they might commit a crime in the future.
Here in the US we have Jeremy Bentham’s policy of arresting “suspects” before they commit a crime on the basis that they might in the future commit a crime.
All the while the US and UK, Australian and Canadian, governments are committing heinous crimes against other countries in the world whose peoples, like those of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine don’t count. These peoples are disposable, unexceptional, like the Vietnamese, Laotians, Cherokees, Sioux, Apaches . . .
These peoples don’t matter. It is we Americans who matter. We are “exceptional.” We are “indispensable.”
In capitalism there is no thought for the future of the planet and humanity, only for short-term profits and bonuses. Consequently, social costs are ignored.
Capitalism can work if social or external costs can be included in the costs of production. However, the powerful corporations are able to block a socially functioning capitalism with their political campaign contributions.
Consequently, capitalists themselves make the capitalist system dysfunctional.
We may have reached the point where the external costs of production are larger than the value of capitalist output.
Economist Herman Daly makes a convincing case that this is the fact.
While the powerful capitalists use the environment for themselves as a cost-free dumping ground, the accumulating costs threaten everyone’s life.
It appears that nothing can be done, because the oceans are “common property.”
No one owns them, so no one can protect them and their contents.
What we are faced with is the most destructive force in history: the short-sightedness of humans.
Humans are willing to destroy the environment that sustains them, the law that sustains them, the truth that sustains them. Indeed, humans will destroy everything that sustains life if they can raise their incomes for another quarter or another year.
I have a friend who regales me with stories that humans are aliens on planet earth, exiled here by an intergalactic government that unwittingly disposed of its criminal wastes on a planet teeming with life.
The inhumans, not humans, have been busy at work ever since their arrival exterminating one another, other species, and the life of the planet itself.
In the Western World truth is dying.
Corporate and government money has purchased many scientists along with the media and politicians.
The independent scientists who remain have great difficulty obtaining funds for their research, but the corporate scientists have unlimited funds with which to lie.
Scientists, like journalists, advance their careers by lying for the Establishment.
Truth-tellers and whistleblowers are defined as “domestic extremists,” “terrorists,” and are on watch lists.
Some have been arrested on suspicion that they might commit a crime in the future.
Here in the US we have Jeremy Bentham’s policy of arresting “suspects” before they commit a crime on the basis that they might in the future commit a crime.
All the while the US and UK, Australian and Canadian, governments are committing heinous crimes against other countries in the world whose peoples, like those of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine don’t count. These peoples are disposable, unexceptional, like the Vietnamese, Laotians, Cherokees, Sioux, Apaches . . .
These peoples don’t matter. It is we Americans who matter. We are “exceptional.” We are “indispensable.”
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Esto es serio, muy serio.
Grave, muy grave.
En ésta bitacora de barco varado,
ello se denuncia ad nauseam,
ello se denuncia ad nauseam,
más que con esperanzas,
con compromiso ontológico consagrado
El conundrum del asunto es que todos,
al menos que no padezcamos
crónico traumatismo cerebral, lo vemos,
lo sentimos y lo palpamos
...y, sin embargo, oh, paradojas,
continuamos subidos en el carro.
Extraño, extrañísimo es el ser humano.
El problema planteado es nítido,
la solución, diáfana:
supeditar el interés privado al colectivo,
la irracionalidad y el "delirium tremens"
a la razón que todos digerimos;
y el obstáculo que lo impide,
claro, clarísimo: EL CAPITALISMO:
EL CANIBALISMO (a)
¿No es lo mismo?
¿No nos lo estamos comiéndo todo
como caníbales empedernidos?
Sólo hay que hacer algo muy sencillo:
ILEGALIZAR A LOS RICOS,
IMPEDIR SER RICOS,
desarticular la esencia misma
de éste Absurdo Circo:
desmontar la Pluto-cracia
y sus estúpidas e infantles máscaras
de "elecciones" y "demo-cracia"
con partido único:
The Forbes World's Billionaires List:
Nada fácil.
Pero ahí vamos...
pregonando en el desierto
para quíenes quieren oirnos.
desarticular la esencia misma
de éste Absurdo Circo:
desmontar la Pluto-cracia
y sus estúpidas e infantles máscaras
de "elecciones" y "demo-cracia"
con partido único:
The Forbes World's Billionaires List:
Nada fácil.
Pero ahí vamos...
pregonando en el desierto
para quíenes quieren oirnos.
(Creo que por eso dijo Cristo
que "es más fácil que un camello
pase por el ojo de una aguja
que un rico suba al reino de los cielos"
Sabía que el ser o el querer ser ricos
destruiría todo lo poco
que hemos conseguido)
destruiría todo lo poco
que hemos conseguido)
Pero, claro, el capitalismo es un efecto,
y la causa del mismo,
el "Homo sapiens",
y como es aquel un reflejo de éste,
estamos en la cuadratura del circulo,
dónde desarticular la causa
es el transfigurarnos a nosotros mismos.
¿Podremos, o hemos ido demasiado lejos
abriéndo éstos postigos?
estamos en la cuadratura del circulo,
dónde desarticular la causa
es el transfigurarnos a nosotros mismos.
¿Podremos, o hemos ido demasiado lejos
abriéndo éstos postigos?
Estamos todos metidos en un GRAN LIO,
en un gran laberínto
dónde el Hilo de Ariadna se ha perdido
y cada vez cuesta más encontrar la salida
que nosotros mismos cerramos
al querer abrir el camino.
en un gran laberínto
dónde el Hilo de Ariadna se ha perdido
y cada vez cuesta más encontrar la salida
que nosotros mismos cerramos
al querer abrir el camino.
Sólo con una Revolución Integral, Total,
que abarcara "todos los lados del polígono",
un giro copernicano
que lleve el barco a nuevo destino
un giro copernicano
que lleve el barco a nuevo destino
donde nos pusiéramos a la izquierdísima
de Marx, Lenin y Cristo,
conservando el Principium Rationis
tal como fue erigido...
se pudiéra tratar de conseguirlo,
o, como dice Theodore Kaczynski,
las perspectivas no lucen muy optimistas
cuándo enfrentamos objetivamente
éste ataque suicida
del sistema tecnológico-industrial
contra el medio natural dónde vivimos:
las perspectivas no lucen muy optimistas
cuándo enfrentamos objetivamente
éste ataque suicida
del sistema tecnológico-industrial
contra el medio natural dónde vivimos:

Estamos a punto de cerrar el circulo.
Nos tenemos que dar prisa...
(a)
Aqui, en esta bitácora, he mencionado la hipótesis (aunque yo creo que es un axioma, como lo prueba el presente) de Oscar Kiss Maerth en su libro "El Principio era el Fín", 'El Insospechado Orígen del Hombre', cuyo mensaje es:
"El hombre ha descubierto muchas cosas, pero no se ha descubierto a si mismo. El calificativo de homo sapiens se lo ha conferido él mismo. La auténcidad de dicho autobautizo no ha sido corroborada por ninguna autoridad competente. Asi pués, conoceros a vosotros mismos y admitir la verdad sobre vuestro orígen; y corregid vuestras metas de acuerdo con ello, antes de que sea demasiado tarde"
Oscar Kiss Maerth
Monasterio de Tsin san, China
En el año 3.200 despues de Moises,
2.573 despues de Lao-tse,
2.510 despues de Buda,
1.967 despues de Cristo,
1.400 despues de Mahoma