The Disease Is an Ancient OneSubmitted to Shelton Blog by John Cox Mason County Progressive
I’ve been thinking, lately, about how biomass incineration, our wars, and union busting in Wisconsin are all symptoms of the same malaise. This disease is an ancient one. It’s been around a long, long time but it is now getting serious. Very serious.
The basis of this disease is greed. It is a greed that is so deep in some of us, that it can become our essence, our soul. It is that which allows many of us to ignore the pain and suffering of others, as long as we, ourselves, are not in pain. It is that which allows us to destroy an entire world without a second thought, because we are not capable of seeing beyond our personal immediate benefit.
This is an era of the perfect storm of greed. Values have been manipulated in such a way, that what was once seen as bad, is now good. Not only good, but the goal...the perfect way to live. Greed. Take what you want. Do whatever you want. Nobody else matters. The corporate villains have become the heroes. And this is killing us and it is killing the planet.
We have local political representation that is supposed to advocate for us. Instead, they act as shills for corporations and the local economic elite. There is a class war in this country, and these individuals are not on our side of the struggle. They would drown us in a sea of greed. They would sacrifice us all on the altar to profit and ego.
We are the background noise in these greed-mongers' visions of a perfect world. A world where greed is good, profit is king, and all else be damned.
We need to ROAR! And we need to roar NOW!
THANK YOU, JOHN!!!
ReplyDeleteJo/Dick Curtis
Your assessment of our current predicament is painfully accurate. We are at war with those who would destroy our planet for profit, trample the worthiest of values, and then wrap themselves in the American flag. We are at war with cowards and carpetbaggers.
ReplyDeleteIt is also true that wrong has somehow become right and greed an objective to which we all should aspire. Thirty years of baby-steps by political sociopaths have brought us to this point. These are the same people who have responded to past,incremental, assaults against our planet and our liberties by tauntingly reciting the little chicken dance about the sky falling. Well, the sky is indeed falling, but not all at once; it's been falling a little at a time for a long time.
As for changing things: It is impossible to replace something old and rotten with something new and strong without first doing a bit of demolition.
We are very fortunte that their greed has caused them to over-reach in so many venues simultaneously that one would have to live under a rock not to start connecting the dots.
ReplyDeleteIn Mason County, the air-breathing community has been defending itself for almost a year now, and we show no signs of letting up.
In Wisconsin, people have been occupying the capitol for over three weeks,and they show no signs of letting up. In fact, after yesterday's uber over-reach by the Wisconsin Republicans, it has been made plain to the world that Wisconsin's legislation was never about the budget.
The tipping point, in favor of human beings, will be when the young people in this country recognize their great peril; when they realize that if they do not rise up and defend their rights as human beings they will be slaves to their corporate masters for as long as those masters can hold power.
The difference in Egypt was young people.
Michael Moore stated on Rachel Maddow's show last night that the students of Wisconsin will be walking out of their classrooms Friday, tomorrow, at 2:00 p.m., in a show of solidarity with the Wisconsin unions.
Young Americans need to recognize their great peril and become active sooner rather than later. If they wait too long....
We ALL had better start ROARING in Mason County...while we still have the BREATH to do it!!!
ReplyDeleteWe need people from: Mason Lake, Grapeview, Allyn, Lake Limrick, Belfair, Island Lake, Isabella Lake and beyond to start to getting involved -- for THEMSELVES!! The majority of the prevailing winds will carry this Air Pollution your direction, including anything burned from Human Fecal Matter!! Oh, My! You folks need to start being far more Progressive in your Reactions if you want a "Quality of Life" for yourselves and your children/grandchildren. You cannot rely on the "few" to protect Your Rights! There is an old saying but so very true: "Speak Up or Shut Up" -- this applies to our problems in Mason County right now!
ReplyDeleteExactly!
ReplyDeleteIf you are an air-breather, and you are in the path of the plume for the proposed ADAGE facility (see prevailing winds) your peril is great. Your children and your elderly are at greatest risk. The pollution has its first and most immediate affect on the most vulnerable members of our community: Grandparents and their grandchildren. This may be why the activists in Shelton seem to be predominately gray-haired -- we are the target and it makes us pretty angry.
Our precious grandchildren are the target also, and that frankly pisses us off. We and our grandchildren (and you and your grandchildren) wear the bullseye for the invisible and deadly small particulate matter.
PLEASE join with other fellow-air breathers in educating yourselves (see reference documents above) and mobilizing your family, friends and neighbors. Right now there is a small, very active group in Shelton, because that is the source of the danger. But the danger posed by this proposed plant will not stay on John's Prairie. It will rain ill health on the folks under the plume: Bayshore, Agate/Pickering, Spencer Lake, Hartstene Island, Mason Lake, Grapeview, Allyn, Belfair, and all communities between Shelton and Belfair. And it won't stop at Belfair!
Educate yourselves and arm yourselves with facts, science and medicine (see reference documents above) and join with the air-breathers in Shelton, please. We have achieved some small traction in the past year and we really need to capitalize on it. For that, we need concerned citizens to step up and get vocal.