It is going to take me a couple of days to digest New Orleans and the condition the city and state are in. First, of all the government has not helped the people, it seems like, and the people don’t feel like the government has helped as much as they can. I did hear an interesting story that I wanted to pass along.
New Orleans has historically voted democratically and the republicans in the state are using the disaster to make the state more republican by limiting the pace of the rebuild and keeping democrats out of the state. So this rabbit hole goes down deep, and there are many layers of complexity that most Americans don’t see. Also, New Orleans was trying to host the presidential debates but the people in power decided not to hold it in the city but instead in Mississippi though they will house the people in New Orleans.
I guess the one thing I want people to know about New Orleans is that despite you not hearing about it at all is that this city is the third world or even fourth world. It really does look like there was a zombie invasion, the only difference is that this is real; we have seen it with our own eyes. People are being marginalized, mostly black, poor, and homeless. There were people staying in our backpackers who were living there because their section of town is condemned. Imagine what that does to your mental well being, and they look at the rest of the country doing nothing to spur our government to sent in the reinforcements.
Here is where I insert a comment about the war and spending a billion dollars a day rebuilding Iraq. We spend this money and can’t even rebuild a city in our own country. It is depressing to see this and to understand this to see this. What is probably going to happen with New Orleans is that the government is going to auction it off, block by block to developers; they are going to rebuild or subdivide and sell to people wanting to move back to their home town, where they grew up.
We saw the front lines of the potential that global warming and climate change have on our global society. If we can’t come back from a disaster like this, what are we suppose to do when the shit hits the fan. This is a social commentary and we need to evolve beyond our democratic capitalism and if there is anyone out there who disagrees with me please come visit the people in New Orleans and talk with them. We need to get the privileged white, educated, able bodied, wealthy, men out of power because we cant comprehend what is going on to the rest of the world, cause it is hard to look down through the clouds perched atop out mountain of oppression that we have been standing on for thousands of years. I am sure we are going to see a lot more of this once we cross the Mexican boarder.
We need to have a global society, and government for lack of a better term, that is By The People, Of The People, For The People. Not By The Rich, Of The Rich, For The Rich or By The Corporations, Of The Corporations, For The Corporations.
This world needs a sustainable revolution that is selfless, that is not for anyone who is alive today, we need to sacrifice our current state so we can create a world for the future children of this world. Come drive around the back roads of Mississippi or Alabama and you will see that people are upset, but they are stuck is very deep mud and doing all they can to get out. We need this revolution to come from the people, we need to rise up against the oppressor.
We need to provide to the people of the world the basic human necessities like Food, Clothing, Shelter, Education, Family, Healthcare and Work that pays me according to the true value of the work they are doing, not to the value of their labor. We need to understand that our economics have a fundamental flaw in that the external costs are kept out of the equation.
Today a revolutionary is born, and a new form of politics, geocracy, a form of society where in the true power is held by the mind, and branches out from there, to the body, to the group, the community, the town, the city, the region, the state, the country, the continent, the world, and to the universe.
I am a citizen of the world, I deserve nutrition, a roof over my head, clothing on my back, a healthy body, a healthy mind, and a place where I can use my body and mind to make the world a better place for my children’s, children’s, children’s, children’s, children’s…
The Maori, of New Zealand say, “I come from a long line of people, when we meet they meet, and we say, “bring together the lines of me.”” I would like to add to that, I am part of a long line of people from the past and the future, when we meet they meet, and we can say, “bring together the lines of me.”
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