Sunday 8 May 2016

along the linear

Sometimes I wonder how I got here, to this point in my life, and then I read something I wrote 13 years ago and go: oh, so that is why...
http://www.mikseri.net/artists/wrathage/hellworlds/131658/

Hellowrlds
Through a plateau myriad
The structures reach
Like a transdimensional plague
Something we never did confront
But stand affected

A grand sewer that swallowed
Our race aeons ago

We reflect it’s grandeur
While fading
Into that darkness
We reflect it’s grandeur
While fading
Into the downward spiral

The deep end of the structure
The fourth quarter of impatience
As our worlds are infected
Like we weren’t parasites ourselves

Through a myriad worlds of hell
The conclusion is sent
As an act of mercy
Or in disgust

We are impatient to receive

“Hellworlds, a bowl of black i bathe and baptise
Is it enough to enter the hellworlds, to extinction
Heroism is cowardice, your virtues your demise
Rotting and a half, Battle army of flamemolded giants
Endless harm, revelation of an apocalypse
Above i see the old man, and above i see the horns
Hell is here, and you’d rather be somewhere else
The downward spiral, rather tempting”

...we fall with the last grains of sand through the narrow of the hour glass, and there we are greeted with the inevitability of the bottom, all the worlds have sunk to hell and and we shift from process to pathology.
It is not that I wanted to see this, but I could see that the system we have is much like a drain, and when you remove the cork, you can already know where it will go, and the dream will be empty as we have all fallen through the floor.
Maybe I went faster, and at first I felt alone, but since I was here, I built a house, and it is still in the world, even if it is in hell, we exist, we adapt, we live. The acidic rains, the cancerous air, the dead seas, these are what we have made, the conclusion of what we have done and from where do we now begin, because we are still here, in the linear procession, up is down now, we are already going back the other way, we have a new paradigm.

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Indirect effects of anti-capitalist action


This is the hidden spearhead of the activist's effort already buried deep between the ribs of the corporate carcass (alive like a rotting animal is festering with life, insects and scavengers).
You attack the company, burn some buses for example, and the company gets the buses back from the insurance firm, but if the insurance firm has to pay for the buses, and the buses get torched again and again, the price of the insurance will go up. This does not hurt just one company, but the whole corporate system.
So, consistent anti-capitalist activity does have an effect, because it drives up the expenses, especially when there are environmental issues at stake, because if governments are forced to limit the profit seeking companies and require them to make sure there is no environmental damage due the citizen opinion and activism, the costs to make the profit go even higher.
And if the destruction companies have to pay for extra high insurances for their machines, or better yet, can't get an insurance, then the risk involved will be higher and it will be more difficult to get investments.
Fracking, nuclear power, mining, destruction of forests will all become less and less profitable the more the activists cause material damage to the companies with blockades, vandalism, boycotts and just raising awareness. Direct action has indirect results, and consistent action will topple the entire system, because actually the system functions on outsourced expenditure; profit is always derived from unequal trade, be that with nature or with work. The CEO's hour is worth thousands just as the money crop is harvested from impoverished fields. When the mine is abandoned, the nature gets a gaping wound in return.
If the corporations would actually have to take the values of nature and humanity into consideration, and their profit making would be limited within the confines of sustainable culture, then the corporations could actually be permitted to do their thing. But as long as their thing is maximal profit, what they do is also maximal exploitation, and maximal exploitation should be met with absolute resistance.


And here is a link with some moderate discussion on the topic: 
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/02/insurance-companies-underwriting-fossil-fuels-climate-market-forces?utm_content=bufferdb627&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer