“The Coming Insurrection,” : To be or not to be?

Violence is the means through which we remain imprisoned within the manufactured fallacies.  We've been brought into the dominant notion that containment of self-defence against the extreme obscenities of patriarchal violence is necessary for the survival of all.  What would we do without them and their powers to make everything right on our behalf, those genocidal conquerors of everything.  The same patriarchy and it's artificial society, begrudgingly updated with the times, has been a constant enticement with every passage of modern human existence, controlling and permitting development only so long as it serves to create further opportunity for itself at the expense of the planet and its people.  It is a system inexorably geared towards oblivion as opposed to a grand design of mutual extinction, similar to the analogy of a snake which instinctively knows no other way but to constrict its means of survival in order to remain alive, with no remorse or pity regardless of the death throes underway within it's coil, which only draws the pressure even tighter to ensure total control.  Devoting energy toward building social structures for the sake of human survival involves a struggle against daunting challenges and barriers, where permissible success only addresses the immediate requirements, in hand to mouth fashion.  Truly meaningful endeavours that do not require the stamp of approval are met with a broad range of creative responses, up to and including annihilation.  Any movement which seeks to merely co-exist until such a time as other hopeful developments take hold in the broader context, such as the flowers, beads and communal agrarian pursuits of yesteryear, are appropriated and devoured so that the original ideals become unrecognizable within its gullet.  The authors of this screed are not seeking to rejuvenate the failures and complacency of the past and present.  They seek the absolute destruction of capitalism and it's chameleon variants as the last remaining solution.

Good point.

Restructuring of the reserves has been contemplated and tinkered with for years, well before 9/11.  The reality of the costs involved in creating a reserve force that is capable of responding in near real time to domestic national emergencies has up to this point prohibited the implementation of the various organizational models.  At present, much of the domestic reserve capacity and planning is focused on Op Podium, which is the military term for support to the 2010 Olympics.  With the end of that domestic mission, and the supposed winding down of the Afghanistan debacle in 2011, perhaps then the plans for reserve restructure will be dusted off and re-considered.  You know what they say about idle hands.

Slumberjack wrote:

Violence is the means through which we remain imprisoned within the manufactured fallacies.  We've been brought into the dominant notion that containment of self-defence against the extreme obscenities of patriarchal violence is necessary for the survival of all.  What would we do without them and their powers to make everything right on our behalf, those genocidal conquerors of everything.  The same patriarchy and it's artificial society, begrudgingly updated with the times, has been a constant enticement with every passage of modern human existence, controlling and permitting development only so long as it serves to create further opportunity for itself at the expense of the planet and its people.  It is a system inexorably geared towards oblivion as opposed to a grand design of mutual extinction, similar to the analogy of a snake which instinctively knows no other way but to constrict its means of survival in order to remain alive, with no remorse or pity regardless of the death throes underway within it's coil, which only draws the pressure even tighter to ensure total control.  Devoting energy toward building social structures for the sake of human survival involves a struggle against daunting challenges and barriers, where permissible success only addresses the immediate requirements, in hand to mouth fashion.  Truly meaningful endeavours that do not require the stamp of approval are met with a broad range of creative responses, up to and including annihilation.  Any movement which seeks to merely co-exist until such a time as other hopeful developments take hold in the broader context, such as the flowers, beads and communal agrarian pursuits of yesteryear, are appropriated and devoured so that the original ideals become unrecognizable within its gullet.  The authors of this screed are not seeking to rejuvenate the failures and complacency of the past and present.  They seek the absolute destruction of capitalism and it's chameleon variants as the last remaining solution.

well put.

Oh yeah. And opium is the opium of the masses.

I heard that somewhere.