Ubiquitous information is just a search prompt away if you just know what you are looking for.
And these days, I’ve been going back in time by watching documentaries about economics and climate change.
How did we get here?
I now have ideas on what must be done, although I don’t know how much power I have to make a change. But talking about things that need changing is a start. We could talk and talk that we get so loud that those who have the power to change things can hear us.
We need to start somewhere, right?
Now, everyone knows everything. No one on the planet is ignorant of the real conditions of our shared social existence. That’s one real thing those stupid smartphones have done; you can be illiterate, many are, and still have an excellent idea of how the world works. You know the world is spinning toward catastrophe. You know it’s time to act. Everyone knows everything. This invisible hand never picks up the check. The money is already here, it isn’t evenly distributed. Which is to say properly distributed. So now things have broken. We broke them; we broke them on purpose! Riot, occupation, non-compliance, general strike: breakdown. Now it’s time for Plan B. Time to act–as in, act of parliament. It will be legislation that does it in the end, creating a new legal regime that is fair, just, sustainable, and secure. Public utility districts, state-owned (meaning citizen-owned) enterprises, cooperative enterprises, real political representation, and so on. We have to enact a Plan B as law, as soon as possible. The best Plan B will emerge from the multitudes.
An excerpt from Chapter 82 of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
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