I’m anti-capitalist, but not an extremist. If people wanted to do capitalism and not tolerate the exploitation and suffering that accompanies present day neoliberal (ripe) capitalism, then I’d be fine. But if capitalists were willing to have fairness and compassion in their money system, Why would they need one?

I’m also a coffee geek, a blogger, a lazy activist and down with John Perkins’s ideas, mostly, about corporatocracy. I like the term and use it myself. It gets to the core of the situation. If we can agree that we have fake democracy (here in North America, let alone in third world countries under our thumb), unfree electoral marketplaces and entrenched inequality, not to mention an entrenched war on the environment by uncaring, unprincipled capitalists, then we should be able to agree that the injection into politics of proportional representation - where it doesn’t already exist - and the creation of explictly anti-corporatocracy parties, is a necessary first step toward levelling the playing field and having a shot at bringing about democracy, which we are far from having at present.

Speaking of having a shot… When the people lose their governments, which doesn’t mean that they haven’t also been stolen from them, then what goes with those governments is lost. That means security and police organizations and military. The plugged in, oblivious ‘citizen’ may think that the nice police officer who responded promptly to his 911 call for whatever is on his or her side, but he’d be wrong. When push comes to shove, police and military serve power, not the people.

I don’t believe we can take back the planet and bring back, or establish ‘civilization’. We don’t have the firepower or the lack of scruples (often). Who are ‘we’? Some of us, within the majority and even within the minority, deserve a new world. But not all of us. A higher power, which I believe exists, will have to remove the current wild beast of corporatocracy and it’s odor. He will not be inviting everyone to remain. Being a victim of the corporatocracy doesn’t automatically make you a citizen in the new world.