True enough, BUT the Capitalist cabals DO plan, and they plan poorly, look at the National (and State) and Municipal Highway and Road systems and their concomitant water, fuel pipeline, sewer and electrical systems, etc.
In other words, all the ugly, irrational, ecocidal, leading to genocidal and suicidal sprawl was PLANNED!!!
By Capitalists who had only economic interests of themselves and their bourgeois minions in mind, and based on totally mindless assumptions of unending fossil fuel supplies and the endless automobile age.
You all should go back and read, "The New Exploration" by Benton MacKaye, written in 1928. If the "powers that were be" had heeded Mr. Mackaye's lessons and had we implemented a socialist system, we all would be in much, much, much, much, much, much, much... better place relative to resource planning and allocation and the USA's impact on the future of the world/planet.
It is a concise book, and not PHDish at all as Mr. Foster's books appear to be...
I highly recommend it as essential. Astute folks refer to MacKaye as "the Father of Regional Planning" for good reason.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
(aka PaChe)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
In Response to Recent EU Elections
Don't be discouraged.
The Capitalist Parties bought the elections with their money and distortions of truth, and propaganda.
The biggest number is the 48% non-participation.
The "left" is not a party of political sham democracy, remember that. It is a movement of economic democracy. Education of the abstenders and your voting supporters, and the ignorant, about the liberatian/syndicalist/mutualist aspects of ecosocialism is your calling.
Remember, the environment is each and every individual and her/his relationship to their environment. The environment is not an issue, it is THE issue.
Reorganize the economy and a new political order will manifest itself. We don't need their damn puppet parliaments, we don't need their puppet adminstrations, we don't need their Fascist military and police states, we need each other, all of us, working together to build world unity and cooperation on the principles of inclusion, humanity, equity, quality of life, sustainability, and peace.
We offer hope for the youth and children of the world. The Capitalist and their sham democracies, and their sham economic indicators, do not.
Keep working at it.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
The Capitalist Parties bought the elections with their money and distortions of truth, and propaganda.
The biggest number is the 48% non-participation.
The "left" is not a party of political sham democracy, remember that. It is a movement of economic democracy. Education of the abstenders and your voting supporters, and the ignorant, about the liberatian/syndicalist/mutualist aspects of ecosocialism is your calling.
Remember, the environment is each and every individual and her/his relationship to their environment. The environment is not an issue, it is THE issue.
Reorganize the economy and a new political order will manifest itself. We don't need their damn puppet parliaments, we don't need their puppet adminstrations, we don't need their Fascist military and police states, we need each other, all of us, working together to build world unity and cooperation on the principles of inclusion, humanity, equity, quality of life, sustainability, and peace.
We offer hope for the youth and children of the world. The Capitalist and their sham democracies, and their sham economic indicators, do not.
Keep working at it.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Coal, Resource Limits, Micro and Macro Strategies
>Perhaps we're already on the precipice with coal,and just don't know it yet...
Of course we are...
How much coal do you think is in the ground?
Do you have any idea, how much we use on a daily basis?
Travel through Montana by bus, and maybe you'll see the seemingly endless coal trains taking out the dirty, less efficient black stuff going to the power plants and industrial applications further east. Go see how much they're taking out daily.
And the environmental destruction? First, the trees are all clear cut, and for what purpose? Then, mountain top, and mountain side removal. Have you ever been to West Virginia and environs and seen the acid mine drainage pollution of the rivers?
All for what?
To fuel a very brief inane, insane period of transient greed driven opulence and ostentation?
Fundamental, radical, demand side management needs to be the plan. I wish you all would get with me on that. This hippie BS about back to the earth on self-sufficient homesteads, while developing very useful survival strategies that you can teach and be of help to many others, is not in and of itself a survival strategy. You will perish with the rest of us.. It is important that we all work together as a united world, united regions, united communities or the very worst of the doomsayers' prophecies will engulf us all.
So, come on, individualism is fine within the context of community and world humanity, but ONLY within that context.
- "An individual has not stated living until he or she can rise above the narrow confines of his or her individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity."
- Dr. Martin Luther Kin, Jr.
-"The essence of socialism is to take as one's criterion the collective interests and the interests of the individual and to judge every word and every action by this criterion"
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
The environment is each and every individual on the palnet and her/his relationship to their environment. The environment is not an issue. It is THE issue.
- Mike Morin
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperat ion, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
Of course we are...
How much coal do you think is in the ground?
Do you have any idea, how much we use on a daily basis?
Travel through Montana by bus, and maybe you'll see the seemingly endless coal trains taking out the dirty, less efficient black stuff going to the power plants and industrial applications further east. Go see how much they're taking out daily.
And the environmental destruction? First, the trees are all clear cut, and for what purpose? Then, mountain top, and mountain side removal. Have you ever been to West Virginia and environs and seen the acid mine drainage pollution of the rivers?
All for what?
To fuel a very brief inane, insane period of transient greed driven opulence and ostentation?
Fundamental, radical, demand side management needs to be the plan. I wish you all would get with me on that. This hippie BS about back to the earth on self-sufficient homesteads, while developing very useful survival strategies that you can teach and be of help to many others, is not in and of itself a survival strategy. You will perish with the rest of us.. It is important that we all work together as a united world, united regions, united communities or the very worst of the doomsayers' prophecies will engulf us all.
So, come on, individualism is fine within the context of community and world humanity, but ONLY within that context.
- "An individual has not stated living until he or she can rise above the narrow confines of his or her individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity."
- Dr. Martin Luther Kin, Jr.
-"The essence of socialism is to take as one's criterion the collective interests and the interests of the individual and to judge every word and every action by this criterion"
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
The environment is each and every individual on the palnet and her/his relationship to their environment. The environment is not an issue. It is THE issue.
- Mike Morin
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperat ion, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
Friday, August 7, 2009
Letter to "Funders for Sustainability"
Dana,
Just got finished watching "The Story of Stuff". Annie Leonard did an excellent job. Thank you for your contribution to the funding of this short film. I have made a small donation in support.
Apparently, the short is getting much viewership, hopefully it is not exclusively "preaching to the choir". Fundamental behavior change is essential to any hope that we have towards achieving sustainability in our communities and our world.
But awareness and behavior change of "consumers" is not enough. We must regain our humanity and we must radically alter our economic relations. Such will be extremely difficult because the Capitalist Growth Machine has centuries of momentum which has accelerated drastically in the last generation. The tragic growth pradigm of an economic system is one that eschews the reality of a finite planet, that eschews the teachings of ecology, that eschews the true needs of the majority of the people on the planet, and eschews environmental/public health and humanity towards people/workers and other living things.
We need a fundamental paradigm shift to an EcoSocialist Economy based on the principles of inclusion, equity, humanity, quality of life (in lieu of standard of living), sustainability, and peace. We need to radically rearrange the way resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors. Such a "plan and implement economy" would have the neighborhood as a locus and work assiduously to develop and maintain inter-community, inter-regional, and world cooperation and unity. A strategy of ecological economic redevelopment would be employed and realized. In the United States a goal of walkable neighborhorhoods, reversing a century of sprawl, by reducing automobile usage by 80% in the next 20 to 40 years, rebuilding neighborhoods/town and village centers (or building the latter in many cases) and reallocating the production and distribution of goods and services so that almost all can get what they need within walking distance of their homes.
I have attached a paper entitles "Restructuring Our Financial System" which proposes an alternative to the current dominant paradigm. Please take a look at this.
I would greatly appreciate your feedback on this letter and the attachment. I would be very glad to share more of my work with you. I have a 25 page concise, comprehensive plan that you may want to look at. Please do not hesitate to request this, or to communicate with me on any issue or concern related to this communication.
I am not seeking funding, I am seeking exposure for my ideas. To whatever extent we can collaborate would be of great interest to me.
Thank you.
I hope to "hear" from you soon.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
(541) 343-3808
Just got finished watching "The Story of Stuff". Annie Leonard did an excellent job. Thank you for your contribution to the funding of this short film. I have made a small donation in support.
Apparently, the short is getting much viewership, hopefully it is not exclusively "preaching to the choir". Fundamental behavior change is essential to any hope that we have towards achieving sustainability in our communities and our world.
But awareness and behavior change of "consumers" is not enough. We must regain our humanity and we must radically alter our economic relations. Such will be extremely difficult because the Capitalist Growth Machine has centuries of momentum which has accelerated drastically in the last generation. The tragic growth pradigm of an economic system is one that eschews the reality of a finite planet, that eschews the teachings of ecology, that eschews the true needs of the majority of the people on the planet, and eschews environmental/public health and humanity towards people/workers and other living things.
We need a fundamental paradigm shift to an EcoSocialist Economy based on the principles of inclusion, equity, humanity, quality of life (in lieu of standard of living), sustainability, and peace. We need to radically rearrange the way resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors. Such a "plan and implement economy" would have the neighborhood as a locus and work assiduously to develop and maintain inter-community, inter-regional, and world cooperation and unity. A strategy of ecological economic redevelopment would be employed and realized. In the United States a goal of walkable neighborhorhoods, reversing a century of sprawl, by reducing automobile usage by 80% in the next 20 to 40 years, rebuilding neighborhoods/town and village centers (or building the latter in many cases) and reallocating the production and distribution of goods and services so that almost all can get what they need within walking distance of their homes.
I have attached a paper entitles "Restructuring Our Financial System" which proposes an alternative to the current dominant paradigm. Please take a look at this.
I would greatly appreciate your feedback on this letter and the attachment. I would be very glad to share more of my work with you. I have a 25 page concise, comprehensive plan that you may want to look at. Please do not hesitate to request this, or to communicate with me on any issue or concern related to this communication.
I am not seeking funding, I am seeking exposure for my ideas. To whatever extent we can collaborate would be of great interest to me.
Thank you.
I hope to "hear" from you soon.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
(541) 343-3808
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Polemics with Poland
Hi Walter,
Good to hear from you.
If you think you're "talking to a brick wall" then I think you are rebuilding the "iron curtain".
>You wrote:
>1. I am not Capitalist lover, but WW2 and Cold War were finished with REAL VICTORIES against the worst threats in human history. Writing word >victory with quotation marks you offended millions of victims of these regimes. It does not matter, that you intended to step against capitalism.
My reply:
What is it about you that you think that you speak for millions, when you say I "offend"?
My intention is to offend no one.
When you have such insanity as War, and WWII, probably had to be the most insane, nobuddy's right because EVERYBUDDY is wrong.
>VK:
>2. Age of Empires returns again and again. This is the nature of human mind. Mankind always compete for some kind of wealth. You will not >change it. First, people have to change their minds. Otherwise, you will see only a terror of moralists, forcing people to act ethically, etc.
That is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a cop-out, showing a lack of commitment, a lack of ethics, and excuse me if I offend thee, cowardice.
>VK
>3. Is the mass social objection possible? Well, I have seen this in 1980 and in a less scale in 1989 in Poland with Solidarity Movement. But it was >opposition against oppressive regime.
Mass social objection occurred in the USA in the 60's and 70's. You know about oppression in Poland, I know about oppression in the USA. I'm not certain, why the USA doesn't rise up against their own oppression of the rest of the world, probably because we are dealing with the Johnson/Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Lincoln/Davis/Kennedy/McCain/Obama Fascism where they feel safe back here in "the State(s)", are the beneficiaries of such Fascism, or are lead to believe that it benefits them, because they have been taught not to think, other than what will they consume next...
By the way, Lech Walesa is on record for having said that it was a huge mistake to form an alliance with Ronald Reagan and the Capitalist World.
>VK wrote:
>4. Your previous message: if you are such a great fan of Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro why don't you go and live in Venezuela or Cuba? Well, living >in this evil Capitalism is probably the only opportunity of doing and writing freely what you want, without fear. It is not easy to leave high quality life
> to show real devotion to ideology.
You are a victim of Capitalist Imperialist Propaganda. For the matter, I would have moved to Venezuela or Cuba, two years ago, if I had been fluent in Spanish.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Good to hear from you.
If you think you're "talking to a brick wall" then I think you are rebuilding the "iron curtain".
>You wrote:
>1. I am not Capitalist lover, but WW2 and Cold War were finished with REAL VICTORIES against the worst threats in human history. Writing word >victory with quotation marks you offended millions of victims of these regimes. It does not matter, that you intended to step against capitalism.
My reply:
What is it about you that you think that you speak for millions, when you say I "offend"?
My intention is to offend no one.
When you have such insanity as War, and WWII, probably had to be the most insane, nobuddy's right because EVERYBUDDY is wrong.
>VK:
>2. Age of Empires returns again and again. This is the nature of human mind. Mankind always compete for some kind of wealth. You will not >change it. First, people have to change their minds. Otherwise, you will see only a terror of moralists, forcing people to act ethically, etc.
That is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a cop-out, showing a lack of commitment, a lack of ethics, and excuse me if I offend thee, cowardice.
>VK
>3. Is the mass social objection possible? Well, I have seen this in 1980 and in a less scale in 1989 in Poland with Solidarity Movement. But it was >opposition against oppressive regime.
Mass social objection occurred in the USA in the 60's and 70's. You know about oppression in Poland, I know about oppression in the USA. I'm not certain, why the USA doesn't rise up against their own oppression of the rest of the world, probably because we are dealing with the Johnson/Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Lincoln/Davis/Kennedy/McCain/Obama Fascism where they feel safe back here in "the State(s)", are the beneficiaries of such Fascism, or are lead to believe that it benefits them, because they have been taught not to think, other than what will they consume next...
By the way, Lech Walesa is on record for having said that it was a huge mistake to form an alliance with Ronald Reagan and the Capitalist World.
>VK wrote:
>4. Your previous message: if you are such a great fan of Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro why don't you go and live in Venezuela or Cuba? Well, living >in this evil Capitalism is probably the only opportunity of doing and writing freely what you want, without fear. It is not easy to leave high quality life
> to show real devotion to ideology.
You are a victim of Capitalist Imperialist Propaganda. For the matter, I would have moved to Venezuela or Cuba, two years ago, if I had been fluent in Spanish.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
The Demise of Supply Side Economics
I think that what we are seeing is not just the bursting of the housing bubble, but the bursting of the entire supply-side economics paradigm, by a couple of generations of Capitalists who thought that they were infallible, in good part because of their "victories" in WW2 and the Cold War and were riding a wave of ASSUMED success.
The presumption of success had momentum and affected the business culture to the point that credit and equity flowed freely and foolishly.
Now, reality is setting in. Over-supply side economics cutting its own throat by paying no attention to how their worldwide dominance of financing low wage Capitalism, a race to the bottom for the working class, was undermining effective demand for their over-supply of low quality, of marginal utility junk. The over-extension of credit "helped" for awhile, at least until all the overly materialistic fools had filled their over-priced luxury and common-place homes with a plethora of unnecessary toys, including those gas gluttonous opulent ostentations in their driveways. Then the bills came due and the over-supply economy was so over-supplied and credit so maxed out that it ceased to be able to grease the wheel of the assumed insatiable wants economy.
The price of gasoline and other fossil fuel products contributed in helping to weaken effective demand for what would have to be seen as an impossible continuation of mindless commerce.
In order to sustain wealth, people have to produce items of value. Other than the computer industry, it's all been speculation, more speculation, more speculation, more speculation, fueled by greed and accelerated by foolish arrogance.
We need a fundamental paradigm shift in resource allocation, an alternative that would target the needs of people and not the profits of the few (which they will find increasingly impossible to realize). We need to change the way that resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors.
A Plan and Implement Economy is the only answer to the perilous problems facing a world of resource scarcity and concomitant rising tensions.
I invite your responses and will forward them to this group, if appropriate.
Thank you.
In Peace, Friendship, Solidarity, and Cooperation,
Mike Morin
The presumption of success had momentum and affected the business culture to the point that credit and equity flowed freely and foolishly.
Now, reality is setting in. Over-supply side economics cutting its own throat by paying no attention to how their worldwide dominance of financing low wage Capitalism, a race to the bottom for the working class, was undermining effective demand for their over-supply of low quality, of marginal utility junk. The over-extension of credit "helped" for awhile, at least until all the overly materialistic fools had filled their over-priced luxury and common-place homes with a plethora of unnecessary toys, including those gas gluttonous opulent ostentations in their driveways. Then the bills came due and the over-supply economy was so over-supplied and credit so maxed out that it ceased to be able to grease the wheel of the assumed insatiable wants economy.
The price of gasoline and other fossil fuel products contributed in helping to weaken effective demand for what would have to be seen as an impossible continuation of mindless commerce.
In order to sustain wealth, people have to produce items of value. Other than the computer industry, it's all been speculation, more speculation, more speculation, more speculation, fueled by greed and accelerated by foolish arrogance.
We need a fundamental paradigm shift in resource allocation, an alternative that would target the needs of people and not the profits of the few (which they will find increasingly impossible to realize). We need to change the way that resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors.
A Plan and Implement Economy is the only answer to the perilous problems facing a world of resource scarcity and concomitant rising tensions.
I invite your responses and will forward them to this group, if appropriate.
Thank you.
In Peace, Friendship, Solidarity, and Cooperation,
Mike Morin
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Ecosocialist Plan Available
By now, some of you may have received the 25 page document regarding the Ecological Economic Redevelopment Plan that I have been forwarding to interested parties within the last month.
If you have not taken the time to request the document, or have not yet read it, please try to find the time and do so. It is important.
The plan deals with matters of utmost importance, especially to our youth and children. It is a mission of that elusive world peace, which with mans' grace could be achieved in a time that we can communicate like never before. Yet, at the same time we are on a precarious precipice or downslope in human civilization with respect to scare natural and economic resources and building tensions because of such.
A Plan that puts inclusion, equity, humanity, quality of life, and sustainability as the basic pillars of a plan and implement modus operandi, a plan that addresses the needs of people, not profits for the few, a plan that presents a fundamental and solid alternative to the current failed Capitalist Financial system, is the remedy that we need.
Such is the document that you should consider.
I am asking you all to participate. I am asking for your feedback. Let's all try to work together to make a new era possible. Of course, some will have disagreements. For those of us that ascribe to the fundamental mission and principles, let's work those out. Let's discuss how we can become the dominant paradigm, and how we can implement the changes that would benefit everyone, especially the youth and children.
The fossil fuel age is winding down, yet we have become so tragically dependent upon those resources. Conservation and demand side management is the key. If we don't commit to such and begin very soon to plan and implement an alternative economy, then there is little hope for the progeny of the planet. But, we still may have time.
What can we do?
What do you suggest?
Please don't delay in joining the discourse.
Thank you.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
If you have not taken the time to request the document, or have not yet read it, please try to find the time and do so. It is important.
The plan deals with matters of utmost importance, especially to our youth and children. It is a mission of that elusive world peace, which with mans' grace could be achieved in a time that we can communicate like never before. Yet, at the same time we are on a precarious precipice or downslope in human civilization with respect to scare natural and economic resources and building tensions because of such.
A Plan that puts inclusion, equity, humanity, quality of life, and sustainability as the basic pillars of a plan and implement modus operandi, a plan that addresses the needs of people, not profits for the few, a plan that presents a fundamental and solid alternative to the current failed Capitalist Financial system, is the remedy that we need.
Such is the document that you should consider.
I am asking you all to participate. I am asking for your feedback. Let's all try to work together to make a new era possible. Of course, some will have disagreements. For those of us that ascribe to the fundamental mission and principles, let's work those out. Let's discuss how we can become the dominant paradigm, and how we can implement the changes that would benefit everyone, especially the youth and children.
The fossil fuel age is winding down, yet we have become so tragically dependent upon those resources. Conservation and demand side management is the key. If we don't commit to such and begin very soon to plan and implement an alternative economy, then there is little hope for the progeny of the planet. But, we still may have time.
What can we do?
What do you suggest?
Please don't delay in joining the discourse.
Thank you.
In Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
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