Military and Revolutionary Ethics

The enjoyment of power is fatal to the subtleties of life

Ruling classes degenerate

by reason of their lazy indulgence in obvious gratifications

Alfred North Whitehead

The people that need stirred up are the young,
educated un and/or underemployed and underpaid,
to make them begin to think of what they should,
instead of what they are, which seems not to be much.

And they got screwed by their parents and don’t realize it yet.

Roman Empire stuff, but it’s happening,
a lot quicker than I figured five years ago.

Anonymous, July 11, 2010

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If ~20% of the world’s population
uses about 80% of global energy production
do most with less want more?

If credit and energy peak

does employment, globalization and peace?

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency

the second is war

Ernest Hemingway

What could happen when two countries
need to buy the same oil?

If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese

what happens when demand exceeds supply?

If we’re the mold and Earth is the cheese

how many need and/or want how much

where is half way, who’s got what’s left, who gets cut off when

who will compete with who for what’s left

and how is who most likely to win?

Can mold collectively prevent the procreation
of a larger generation that can’t be fed by the remaining cheese?

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out

in a technological society

Isaac Asimov

Are there correlations
between currency, debt, natural resources, peace and war?

Have the powerful created symbols for the powerless to destroy

to turn tyranny into nationalism?

What could happen if a generation of underemployed, underpaid

educated and indebted young adults

become disillusioned by their elders’ financial mismanagement

and seek to identify and punish those responsible?

What could happen if high school graduates
can’t afford or finance higher education
while indebted graduates can’t find jobs paying enough to cover bills?

Have the powerless created symbols for the powerful to destroy

to create dissent by turning apathy into perceived oppression?