It’s not just all the war, injustice, ecocide and dystopia that hurts. It’s knowing it didn’t have to be this way. It’s knowing what could have been.
All this innovation that’s being poured into finding new ways to conduct mass military slaughter, to surveil and control our entire society, to restrict and manipulate the flow of information, to create artificial scarcity for products that people need, to create artificial demand for products that people do not need, to compete with rival corporations in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires — none of that needs to be happening. Humanity could be using its creativity and cleverness to make the world a better place instead.
If we were pouring all our resources, time and energy into collaborating with each other for the common good instead of competing with each other for power and profit, we could easily create paradise on earth. If all our brainpower was going toward improving life on this planet without worrying about our competitors or overlooking any possible advancement that doesn’t generate value for shareholders, our innovative potential would easily increase a thousandfold.
We could heal our biosphere while ensuring that everyone on earth has what they need to live. We could provide healthcare, education and rapid public transportation to everybody while using automation to eliminate the need for human toil. We could be living lives of ever-burgeoning leisure, wonder, and satisfaction, assured of a better future for our children and grandchildren.
Instead we get this shit. Mass murder and exploitation in an increasingly dystopian civilization on a dying world, where the front line of scientific discovery is the military-industrial complex and the construction of an AI tech surveillance network.
All because we haven’t yet managed to unplug ourselves from the abusive system of capitalism and its outgrowth into global imperialism. We’re being held strangling at this self-destructive chokepoint humanity created for itself a few hundred years ago, and soon it’s going to squeeze the life right out of us.
And it could have been so good. It could still be so good. We’ve just got to find some way to use the power of our numbers to throw off these oppressive chains and build the kind of world that needs to be built. Because the current system clearly is not working.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧Lebanese businessman and banker Antoun Sehnaoui and former U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus hosted a dinner in memory of Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C., on Monday night
🇮🇱The event was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu and Graham’s family - new Senator Darline Graham and her husband Larry and their daughter
🔴Other participants were Republicans Senators Wicker, Cruz, Lankford, Britt, Ernst, Risch and McCormick, Hoeven, Blackburn, Cramer and Hagerty.
🔵Several Democratic Senators also attended: Coons, Shaheen, Whitehouse and Fetterman
🏛️Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin also attended.
🔴Other participants: Facebook’s Dina Powell-McCormick, Katie miller and Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter
Lmao so now the U.S. is against the ICC for investigating Maduro—the same Maduro they’re holding in prison?
Let’s be real. The primary benefactor of this attack on the ICC’s legitimacy is Netanyahu.