An unprecedented offensive is being waged against humanity. An alliance of vested interests is unravelling the ties that bind society together, replacing cooperation with competition, rational trust with irrational terror, and equality with hierarchy.
The new gods of global finance have joined forces with the old gods of superstition, media moguls with monarchists, xenophobes with misanthropists, fascists with financiers, bishops with bankocrats, the leech with the self-loathing, the ignorant and the ignoble.
The battlefields are inconsistent and the armies uncoordinated, but the objective is the same: to ensure that the poles of power are eternally vertical, rather than democratically horizontal: a pyramid of unparalleled disparity, built on the partition of humanity from its collective potential.
This New Feudalism promises a permanent future of organised chaos in which the few exploit the labour of the divided many, in which the fruits of human progress are embezzled by the one-percent, the human rebranded as a product to be cannibalised by corporate consumers, the shared heritage of the earth laid waste by short-sighted shareholders and the common spaces enclosed for the exclusive use of privateers. The oligarchs of the New Feudalism control the technical means of distraction, the ideological means of manipulation and the physical means of state repression.
The resistance to this assault on human liberty is still wiping the sleep from its eyes. Out of the inherent contradictions of a system that generates false aspirations to conceal the process of exploitation, the lights of realisation are going on around the world. It takes time for giants to wake, but the rumblings can be heard in every continent, in every city, in every household. The resistance is unformed and for a time will be sidetracked by single issues, but the human capacity for universal sympathy is as vast as our collective intelligence. Solidarity creates titans out of alienated individuals. The resistance is here and now, an earth republic without gods in heaven or hierophants on earth, a species undivided by borders, boundaries or vertical poles of power, a world in which an injury to one is an injury to all. The resistance is fertile and it is here.
The new gods of global finance have joined forces with the old gods of superstition, media moguls with monarchists, xenophobes with misanthropists, fascists with financiers, bishops with bankocrats, the leech with the self-loathing, the ignorant and the ignoble.
The battlefields are inconsistent and the armies uncoordinated, but the objective is the same: to ensure that the poles of power are eternally vertical, rather than democratically horizontal: a pyramid of unparalleled disparity, built on the partition of humanity from its collective potential.
This New Feudalism promises a permanent future of organised chaos in which the few exploit the labour of the divided many, in which the fruits of human progress are embezzled by the one-percent, the human rebranded as a product to be cannibalised by corporate consumers, the shared heritage of the earth laid waste by short-sighted shareholders and the common spaces enclosed for the exclusive use of privateers. The oligarchs of the New Feudalism control the technical means of distraction, the ideological means of manipulation and the physical means of state repression.
The resistance to this assault on human liberty is still wiping the sleep from its eyes. Out of the inherent contradictions of a system that generates false aspirations to conceal the process of exploitation, the lights of realisation are going on around the world. It takes time for giants to wake, but the rumblings can be heard in every continent, in every city, in every household. The resistance is unformed and for a time will be sidetracked by single issues, but the human capacity for universal sympathy is as vast as our collective intelligence. Solidarity creates titans out of alienated individuals. The resistance is here and now, an earth republic without gods in heaven or hierophants on earth, a species undivided by borders, boundaries or vertical poles of power, a world in which an injury to one is an injury to all. The resistance is fertile and it is here.
