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Sep. 5th, 2008 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burnunitThis is just a short note to my friends. The number one—and I mean it seems like, it's the most used phrase by far—the most used post topic or sentence starter I have seen on my friends page today is some variation on "I'm not usually very political here but..."
Most of you know that I'm very political here. And this week has been me ratcheting it up till maybe you're sick. So I just wanted to say something to you people who are not usually very political.
They did this to you. They did it to all of us. We're all in this boat together, because they chewed up our civic life and shat it out over the last 40 years (not just eight, forty). Now is the time. We cannot survive as a people, possibly as a human race, unless you, reluctant though you may be, become engaged. Now is the time to be engaged. Now is the time to rage back. Now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you're sick of it. I'm sorry I'm so angry. We are running out of time.
We are only dimly aware of the great foreboding that any day now the weather and the climate will reach their tipping point. Or that someone will decide to force a decisively terminal conflict among nations, using atomic weapons. Or that any day now the boot of oppression will finally be lowered.
But before those things happen, it is just as likely that this nation will enter an economic depression. Not a recession. Not a downturn. A real depression. If and when that happens, if we do not engage the principalities and powers that are present in our world now, when that happens we will be cast out into a clawing howling madness. If we, including you who are not "all that political" do not engage, no one will apologize. No one will create a works progress administration or a conservation corps. No one will medicate our children or heal our broken old parents. No one will build the bread lines this time. If we are not engaged, we will be devoured. By ourselves. Now is the time. Not a moment too soon.
Most of you know that I'm very political here. And this week has been me ratcheting it up till maybe you're sick. So I just wanted to say something to you people who are not usually very political.
They did this to you. They did it to all of us. We're all in this boat together, because they chewed up our civic life and shat it out over the last 40 years (not just eight, forty). Now is the time. We cannot survive as a people, possibly as a human race, unless you, reluctant though you may be, become engaged. Now is the time to be engaged. Now is the time to rage back. Now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you're sick of it. I'm sorry I'm so angry. We are running out of time.
We are only dimly aware of the great foreboding that any day now the weather and the climate will reach their tipping point. Or that someone will decide to force a decisively terminal conflict among nations, using atomic weapons. Or that any day now the boot of oppression will finally be lowered.
But before those things happen, it is just as likely that this nation will enter an economic depression. Not a recession. Not a downturn. A real depression. If and when that happens, if we do not engage the principalities and powers that are present in our world now, when that happens we will be cast out into a clawing howling madness. If we, including you who are not "all that political" do not engage, no one will apologize. No one will create a works progress administration or a conservation corps. No one will medicate our children or heal our broken old parents. No one will build the bread lines this time. If we are not engaged, we will be devoured. By ourselves. Now is the time. Not a moment too soon.
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Date: 2008-09-05 08:43 pm (UTC)And, further, have you read the analysis over at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/hanlonsrazor/342700.html?format=light?
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Date: 2008-09-05 09:34 pm (UTC)