Thrive

I know I've already posted this, but with more visitors here there is certainly a chance that some of them have yet to view Thrive, and just to make my reservations clear, I wholeheartedly agree with nearly everything Gamble puts forward in the film except the part at the very end where he advocates Free-Market Capitalism as the solution. As an Anarchist I feel that any form of hierarchy is antithetical to actual freedom BUT if we're going to attempt a global, complex, interdependent social experiment then regulation, particularly with regards to preserving the bio-sphere, is absolutely critical. Corporate Capitalism is the problem. If we're going to attempt to survive the the present predicament, that of compounding crises, then Socialism is far-and-away more ideal than pretending that the "Invisible Hand" of the "Free Market" is going to pull us back from the brink. All Corporate Capitalism is presently doing is consolidating wealth and power into the hands of the few while the world burns. Socialism would address both the inequality gap and the absence of regulation that created the total nightmare we are presently living through. Industrial "Civilization" and its embodiment of Corporate Capitalism is a gross manifestation of our collective ego. If we are to survive NTE (Near-Term Extinction) dis-identifying with material wealth, power and "prestige" is pre-requisite.

It's grow-up-or-die time, right now we're behaving like collective two-year-olds.

More on Anarchism:

http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2011/09/reading-excerpt-emma-goldman-on.html

http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-practice-of-anarchy.html

http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-praise-of-anarchy-part-ii.html

http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-praise-of-anarchy-part-iii.html