Impending Planetary Disaster Ought To Join United States, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, everyone, what a circus! That alone must make us like each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are consumed by absolutely nothing.”
Intimidated and flattened by trivialities, consumed by absolutely nothing. I think of this quote a lot not simply as relate to the inevitability of our specific deaths, however to the looming death of the whole world.
The website Antiwar.comhas been doing an excellent job keeping an eye on all the many United States cold war escalations against Russia and China, which seem to be coming out on a near-daily basis now. Just right off their front page today there’s a storyabout how the United States thinking about is putting more military help in Ukraine on the allegation that Russia is outlining an invasion, anotherabout Moscow declaring that United States bombers just practiced a simulated nuclear strike on Russia and have actually have considerably increased their activity along its border, anotherabout Beijing’s anger over increased US war ship activity in the Taiwan Strait, anotherabout Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton’s guarantee that Australia would sign up with the United States in a war against China to protect Taiwan, and yet anotherabout Beijing and Moscow signing an agreement to deepen their military cooperation to counter hostilities from Washington.
Erm I Know You’re Busy However Nuclear War Is Getting Significantly Likely
Couple of individuals seem to think the most pressing hazard to humanity might be all those armageddon weapons we have actually stocked and how significantly irresponsibly our leaders are dealing with them.https:// t.co/ NHYHQgCdfO– Caitlin Johnstone ⏳(@caitoz)November 23, 2021 This, along with the myriad symptoms our biosphere is revealing us of impending collapse, and we still in some way manage to stay terrorized and flattened by trivialities. Eaten up by nothing . Divisions and hostilities are hotter than ever, even in those political sectors where individuals are completely familiar with simply how bad our environmental scenario is and the scary realities of cold war
nuclear brinkmanship. We ought to rationally all be coming together at this point in history. Our cumulative predicament alone should make us enjoy each other. But instead we’re at each other’s throats more than ever in the past. And it’s not simply this ideological faction versus that ideological faction. Even amongst socialists and anti-imperialists there are subfactions, sub-subfactions and sub-sub-subfactions, all of whom abhor each other, and all of those divisions are far
even worse and even more irritated in online forums. Individuals will invest months on end taking part in online sniping at others over some viewed distinction that would be undetected by someone with a more traditional point of view, like that episode of Star Trek where a group of aliens who are black on the right side and white left wing are warring with a group whose colors are the opposite and just they observe the difference. Our precious newfound capability as a species to network and share concepts with each other like never ever before gets bogged down in petty squabbling instead of organization toward a motion into health. Part of it is information; because the only large-scale distributors of info in our society are controlled and controlled by the effective, many people see very little evidence of just how much problem the systems sustained by the
powerful have gotten us into. Part of it is viewpoint; due to the fact that a lot of human behavior is driven by ego, a lot more of our interest and attention goes toward the petty distinctions in between ourselves and other human beings than massive issues which threaten everyone. So you’ll see even fairly lucid minds spending their time speaking about obscure sectarian arguments, or about the dangers of political “wokeness “, or about the entirely empty theatrics of mainstream electoral politics, even as the destruction of our
entire world dangles above our heads suspended by a rapidly deteriorating thread. That alone need to make us love each other. That alone should make us concentrate on what matters. That alone need to bring us together to move as one against the globe-dominating forces that are going to end us all if they are not stopped. caityjohnstone.medium.com