Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 03, 2025, 08:40 AMThis is a generational fight.Well, that leaves all us geezers out then doesn't it? None of us are out protesting corporate logging practices are we? Voting for the wide range of Communist seeming political parties at the ballot? Chaining ourselves to entrance gates at oil refineries? I would say it has been a generational fight since the hippes and peace-love-dope corrupted an entire generation into runaway hopium and unrestricted growth and consumerism.
Sure, SOME of the hippy dippy types were worried about the planet, after all, the Great Dieoff claimed in 1970 was scheduled for the end of the 1980's and that had some folks pretty worried. My uncle is one of these hippy dippy types, back to earth, without the smoking wacky weed part anyway, he was a health nut, organic foods, etc etc. He wasn't the only one who ultimately decided he would save the word by being vegan.
Quote from: K-DogSo we need to start being more strategic around how we're going to be preventative, how we're going to occupy territories, how we're going to protect certain tracts of land and water and how we're going to act for a collective vision of what we want this world to look like.I presume you mean the collective "we", as opposed to us permanently homebound or happily content in our net worth who aren't particularly interested in the physical act of...DOING....stuff? Lets face it, if buying a danish and coffee is an irritating part of a part time job in a retiree's life using a welding rig to solder pipeline valves shut is a pretty heavy financial inconvenience! Gas money, hotels, the welding rig, finding the right valve, food and hotels there and back, yikes! Are you implying we know any old codgers willing to risk and trade the "happily content with BAU" part of our lives with legal fees and jail cells, all in the name of changing the world that gave us our high net worth? Seems a bit counter productive this late in life. I've got arthritis in a couple joints, some of this high energy stuff is painful nowadays!
And WHO'S collective vision? Hippy Dippys? With or without weed? Save the tree types? Throw out the bums, and elect new ones? (same as the old ones) The vision of a well heeled communist probably isn't anything like a 20 something working at Starbucks with no hope in life except handing out those danish and coffees to the well heeled old farts who he figures already stole his future...and BLAME them. So who is the "we", when the old geezers are the ones the energetic young want to see die. And then steal all their stuff.
Do you really thing they'll care about one's political affiliation as a good American Communist regardless of net worth before applying the basic premise of the same feelings that cost the "Let Them Eat Cake" lady her head? All they'll see are those cars K-Dog...and they will KNOW where to go to do a little..."personal rearrangement of wealth" in their spare time...when the going gets rough.
