by
Gilbert Mercier
From the
west to the east, and the south to the north of our global horizon,
it is the same tableau: the horrendous killing fields of disaster
capitalism where its cohorts of 18-wheelers, heavy road machinery and
police patrol cars roam the landscape continuously and are turning us
and the better principles of our humanity into countless road kills.
Hell on Earth is to be our common fate, and we might have already
reached a point of no return. The corporate hyenas and political
vultures that generally constitute the global elite are joyfully
feeding on the carcasses of justice and morality; rationality and
empathy; common sense and the notion of public good; sound governance
without corruption and equality before the law; and last but not
least, freedom and fair governance through democracy.
Comparing
this small group of depraved elite sociopaths, with not a trace of
compassion or even consciousness to the scavengers of the natural
world, is actually unfair to vultures and hyenas. Scavengers in
nature have an important function in the ecosystem for their role of
recycling waste. On the other hand, the few thousand rulers of global
corporate imperialism are parasites weakening our common life force.
If vultures are the useful garbage collectors of the natural world,
the corrupt rulers of globalization are tics and leeches gorging on
our blood. The British exit vote from the European Union, known as
Brexit, has to be understood in the context of rejection of
globalization. The global corporate world order has only worked for
its masters but certainly not for the vast majority of the people,
who are becoming the serfs of a new feudalism.
Calling the
vote in favor of Brexit xenophobic doesn’t address the issues at
stake. Cheap labor coming from Eastern Europe has served the
interests of corporations and the rich very well, but it has had a
negative impact on the welfare of British-born workers. This problem
is general across the EU. The purpose of the EU was never to be a
capitalist paradise where a free circulation of people, money, goods,
and services would cater to the needs of multinational corporations,
and where people ultimately would be uprooted to become the slaves of
the so-called free market. The EU project was not centered on
economic considerations but instead on cultural and social-value
notions. It was a way out of the nightmare eras of World War I and
World War II for founding members France and Germany. The formation
of the EU was about a resolute rejection of war to embrace lasting
peace. Other countries might follow the British people in their
intention of leaving supra-national entities such as the EU.
Paradoxically, the United Kingdom itself might disintegrate with the
independence of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Globalists
of all stripes are calling this nationalist revival narrow-minded and
obscurantist. Their leading argument is that global problems such as
climate change, overpopulation, and poverty require institutions with
global authority. But what they should keep in mind is that those
various supra-national institutions or entities, which started with
stated good intentions, such as the United Nations, the World Bank,
and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), not only have failed to
solve any global problems but have, by their corrupt nature made them
worse. In the case of the supra-national North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), there is no pretense of being a do-gooder. The
armed fist of the Orwellian empire is in the business of
globalization of war with decisions made in Washington, DC. In
Orwellian times, many supra-national organizations behave like
corporations under humanitarian pretenses, when they are in fact
parasitic organisms depleting our strength. Meanwhile, no one
represents We The People at all. In the world of humanitarianism for
profit, public servants have vanished and been replaced by corrupt
incompetent groups operating like crime families.
All members
of the fake left advocate that the system must be changed
progressively from within and that a collapse would be mainly a
disaster for the poor and weak. This notion is as valid as to claim
that a building destroyed by an earthquake is in need of some fresh
window dressing. Regardless of the global elite’s arrogance, a
systemic collapse is on its way and will exponentially take hold of
the planet within two or three decades. The super-rich will
eventually have nowhere to run or hide, and no private armies to
protect them from the wrath of nature. Forcefully resisting the brand
of globalization imposed on us by the thugs and slave drivers of
disaster capitalism is a moral obligation all world citizens should
embrace. When people in power live in the castle of their own lies,
it is time to dismantle the fortress. When governance has lost all
moral ground and reason, it is time to call for a revolution.
If, as human
beings, we could understand that We The People should be all of us,
regardless of geographic location, then perhaps the concept of
globalization would serve a purpose and be beneficial. No workers in
Europe and the United States should tolerate that people in places
like Haiti, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Honduras be paid slave wages;
otherwise, down the line they will either lose their jobs or be
exploited by the same corporations. Under the globalization of the
plantation owners, the people are living in chains. Once upon a time,
words like freedom, liberty, and democracy had meaning. They have
largely been gutted out and are just empty shells, ghosts in a play
of smoke and mirrors animated by the sinister masters of ceremony of
the universal rat race. A first necessary step to take would be for
all people still able to exercise free will and critical thinking to
understand that what government and political representation has
become is precisely the opposite of democracy. Voting under these
kinds of circumstances is as delusional as giving substance to the
figments of our own imaginations. When democracy is dead, it is time
to boycott elections.
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