We need to move away from the #mainstreaming mess because the current political and economic systems actually push the mess, while avoiding dealing with any of the root causes of the problems they create. For decades, all our politicians support endless wars, military interventions, and the militarization of police forces. Pushing the very global instability and domestic repression they say they are addressing. Despite constant claims of economic growth, people face stagnant wages that have not kept up with the cost of living, crippling inflation and skyrocketing rents are making it difficult for normal people to make ends meet.

The ongoing ecological crisis, marked by record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and extreme weather events, is a direct result of decades of environmental neglect and exploitation. All of our parties have failed to take meaningful action to address climate change, prioritizing corporate profits over sustainable practices. The failure to address the ecological crisis threatens the survival of our planet and future generations.

The crackdown on social movements and mass incarceration are distraction and a tool by the state to maintain control and suppress dissent, stifling the potential for transformative social change. The growing anger and disillusionment with #neoliberal policies allow demagogues like Farage and Donald Trump to present themselves as alternatives. But their solutions are not progressive, rather rooted in racism, xenophobia, and authoritarianism, leading to growing fascism.

All the major political parties are inbred with corporate interests. They offer superficial solutions to systemic problems, seeking to manage rather than resolve the crises they have created. Real change needs organizing and building vibrant, diverse grassroots movements that can grow new forms of life and community outside the collapsing #mainstreaming structures. Faith in current institutions is collapsing because they fail to address the fundamental issues facing society.

We need to step away from the #mainstreaming mess, reject “common sense” liberal and #neoliberal, #fascist agendas #KISS. Instead, focus on building a diversity of new society to give people a real chance to step away. This likely requires a collective effort to organize, resist, and create alternative forms of social and economic to build more “nativist” humanistic societies.

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  • @info
    Things we need to work on to make sure humanity doesn't go extinct:

    1. Less fragile technology.
    2. Scenario planning considering the ways the population drops to a sustainable level.

    Our descendants into the 22nd century will be those that figure out how to shrink the population and clean up the environment.

    1. A part of that is treating each other better so we can act to reduce overconsumption.

      1) The whole blog is about this https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=%23OMN+projects
      2) This will take care of itself, though trying to mediate this process is humanistic.

      Or it will be the bunker dwellers plotting a comeback, the #classwar could just continue 😉

      1. @info My biggest fear isn't a revolution; I don't think we'd even get started before global climate collapse — one bad feedback trigger cascading into the next. Ocean circulation and weather disturbances, massive forest fires and famine, ocean acidification, phytoplankton death, oxygen depletion. The stuff of disaster movies.

        Sure there might be a billion survivors, but they won't be happy campers. 😟😖