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[AK Press Collective, 2015] Our rural areas are being fracked and monocropped into oblivion, our cities turned into playgrounds for the rich.
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[Crake] "...they're nuking the cloud forests to plant this stuff."
"The peasants would do that too if they had half a chance," said Jimmy.
"Sure, but they don't have half a chance."
"You're taking sides?"
"There aren't any sides, as such."
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["Cuautli"] ...we already had a political formation; we knew about government plans to exploit natural resources, we know how the neo-liberal system works.
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Free trade, free competition, sustained economic growth, the free movement of peoples -- these were, for Britain at least, the dominant economic aspirations of the nineteenth century. Nor were they entirely irrelevant after the turn of the century. Indeed, one might subscribe to such doctrines without self-deception until the close of World War II. For it was only after the first phase of the postwar recovery in Europe that one could descry the shape of things to come and, in that vision, doubt the relevance of these once-emancipating liberal doctrines to the momentous developments being wrought on our lives by the increasing pace of science and technology. The more salient among these developments are: the unprecedent expansion of the human species having ecological consequences we are only beginning to perceive.
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After all, there is already too much of a muchness; every road crawling with automobiles, the air of every town and village fouled with their gas, to be relished by all who have stomach enough for these things.
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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the mountains, lift them to dams and town skyscrapers.
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The love of mountains, itself a growth of modern times, has in fact brought with it a peril which did not exist before; it has opened the gateway and pointed the path to the shrine; but where the worshiper enters, what if the destroyer enters too? What if the pilgrim is close followed by the prospector?
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...the same generation that claimed to have rediscovered the beauties of nature built the hideous slums and factories of the modern industrial towns.
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This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or seared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, aye, to life itself, than this incessant business.
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There is a coarse and boisterous money-making fellow in the outskirts of our town, who is going to build a bank-wall under the hill along the edge of his meadow. The powers have put this into his head to keep him out of mischief, and he wishes me to spend three weeks digging there with him. The result will be that he will perhaps get some more money to hoard, and leave for his heirs to spend foolishly. If I do this, most will commend me as an industrious and hard-working man; but if I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Nevertheless, as I do not need the police of meaningless labor to regulate me, and do not see anything absolutely praiseworthy in this fellow's undertaking any more than in many an enterprise of our own or foreign governments, however amusing it may be to him or them, I prefer to finish my education at a different school.
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...the primary destroyers of the forest are not the poor, but those who exploit the poor, resorting to violence when they see fit in nearly complete legal impunity. This is an old problem in Brazil.
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...the land itself is suffering from the machines, chemicals and management philosophies that have come with large-scale agriculture.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Capitalism -- Added.
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