Mad Max World

Cover of Mad Max (Special Edition)

We have been taught to accept whatever choices people make, as long as they are lawful. Within an essentially unquestioned framework called "The Law", we believe, people (I mean citizens) can live out their valuable freedom, and choose anything they want and cannot do in-justice.

Of course, "The Law" is a power structure only cosmetically separated from the state, which is only cosmetically separated from the Corporatist Elite. And these corporate entities (with more "personhood" under the law than most primates have) make the choices that matter to our planet. They choose to "develop the resources", that is to rape and kill mountains, forests, rivers, oceans.

We have choices too. I'm not talking about the allegedly all-important consumer choices (will come to that in another post), but about the choice to fight back. To do something about "it". If we can for once indoctrinate ourselves, and find other sources to base our emotions on than our flat-screen TV sets, we might have a chance. We might be able to associate the feeling of wealth with healthy forests and rivers teeming with life. And to associate the feeling of poverty with encroaching concrete, industrial production and consumption.