An emerging emergency

[eilen]

She writes about NY with an upstate focus but this post can apply to almost every other state in this union.

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People who drop out of globalism tend not to announce what they are doing; they just do it. The “revolution will not be televised.” Many people who were energized by “political” battles of the earlier part of this
decade, have already drifted away to cultivate their own small plots. Some of them will form collectives (families, communes, or gangs), others will live more nomadic or self-contained lives and work on successful strategies to avoid predation while discovering secret personal sources of untapped energy for themselves — and maybe a few carefully chosen friends.

Of course, the search for untapped energy has consumed Upstate for a long time now — everything from willow shoots, wind, water and a mythical “youth energy” has been proposed as a way to “reverse” the decline of individual cities or even the entire region (and therefore the entire state). It is true that there are probably political changes we could make that would unlock some sources of energy we haven’t been using.

However, making political changes in New York has gotten to the point where few citizens have personal energy to invest in a “broken” system - “broken” as in split into many competing self-interests. The political system itself has become a vampiric energy sink. The reason why Espadas and DeFranciscos keep getting re-elected is because few citizens have the energy to do anything but concentrate on their personal survival. To many of them, I suspect, the antics of the senators (if noticed) are embarrassing, but merely a backdrop to their struggles against greater forces which they don’t believe that a functioning Senate could really help them with anyway. (Did a functioning State Senate stop massive job losses in the ’70s? The ’80s? The ’90s?)



edited to fix link

[XanaDUer]

1. The link doesn't work for me

I would love to read this whole thing.
:hi:

[eilen]

2. fixed it!

If you go to her main page and scroll down, she has a beautiful slideshow of Fingerlakes National Forest. And Jack's Reef below it. Not what most people picture when they think of NY. Is there any wonder that people who live upstate wish to preserve our countryside and small towns from NYRI and other such projects?