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Originally Posted by recluse
Then you must be patient. Hold your beliefs close to your heart and teach them to your children. What you suggest, at this point in human development, will result in a bloodbath of monstrous proportions. And the victor will not be the builder of the new Eden.
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I neither have nor do I want children, and I certainly do not want anything that is associated with any bible to come to pass (taking that a little too literally I know, but that damn book and its siblings have caused more harm to this world than anything).
I take my comfort in the movements of the Spanish prior to and during the Civil War. Yes, the Spanish Civil War was lost to fascism, but it was a close call, and now we're ready all across Europe for the last days of Capitalism, a much better position than the Spanish ever saw. It won't be bloody though, far from it, Europe is about to enter a prolonged period of economic austerity that will prime us for the changeover from top-down, capitalism where the rich have all and the poor provide that for them, to a more equal distribution of wealth and a return to a more community driven lifestyle.
The violent revolution isn't needed any longer, this is happening across the board - from Open Source software, to file sharing to our very social ways of communication and our newly found concern for the environment. Capitalism cannot survive in the post-scarcity world, a branch of anarchism just might have a chance.
It'll be fun to watch the worm turn.
EDIT: Saying all that, I would not want to be in America when Capitalism fails, unless you're in Oregon (you'll be safe there). Your country is too dependent upon the myth of the West and the individual over all. It might very well be a bloodbath over there when everyone is playing the 'me-first' game. Plus, guns, we don't have that many of them and we don't like them that much either.