Lip service. If you're looking to governments, even the City of Greensboro government and corporations to help
us restore the economy the best you can expect is lip service. If I
learned anything from my short time with the Occupy movement it's that
there will always be those who hope to derail your cause for their own
gain and that any time you work within the system you will become a tool
of the very system you hope to change. That's why I believe we will
never be able to restore the world's economy, empower the working class
and live truly sustainable lives.
That's why I also refuse to work within the system.
Some say revolution is the answer but how many revolutions must we have
before we realize revolution is exactly what has kept the 1% in power
throughout history? At best, any violent revolution can do is create a
new 1%. Revolution is, in-fact, the tool used by the 1% to settle scores
between themselves. By making the working class fight their wars and
financing both sides of every conflict they never loose. If a grass
roots revolution takes place it will be funded by a faction of the 1%
who is seeking to control other factions of the 1%. This was evidenced
in the 1966 publication, The Merchant Bankers by Joseph Wechsberg, who was himself, a merchant banker who found himself on the wrong side of the first World War.
Protest won't help restore the world's economy either. With media, police
and military all controlled by whichever 1% happens to have the most
power, these roads all lead to the same dead end. And political parties
with their valued democracy... conservative, liberal, Democratic,
Republican, 3rd Party... that's what got us into this mess in the first
place. Remember: Albert Einstein's definition of insanity is repeating the same
mistakes over and over while expecting the different results.
So how do we build a sustainable economy where everyone is equal
and all have a voice? By doing the very thing the 1% has always done to
us. We control the exchange of money and ideas. We build a parallel
economic system that is difficult for the 1% to control, free of the
markets and stock exchanges and speculators that choke us today. By
doing that we deny the 1% and the governments they control, control over
we-the-working-class and their means to manipulate the masses. A
parallel economy has always existed but it's always been the realm of
the organized crime arm of the 1%, dependent on the overall economy and
thus a tool of the 1%. But if we were to establish a system of trade that
isn't dependent on the current banking and money systems there would be
no way the 1% could manipulate and rob our system. That is, not until a
new 1% becomes established. You'll have to help me figure out how to keep that from happening again.
Then all we'll need to worry about is armies of blue helmets sent to destroy us because we refuse to sell our silk at any price.
So how do we do it? We follow the yellow brick road.
