We have been moving inexorably towards another world war for some time now.
As long as i have been politically active i've been able to see it coming.
I spent so long distracting myself with video games, drugs, distractions of all kinds. In a desperate attempt for it all to just to go away.
But, like many others, i feel the phase of denial ending. I can no longer hide from our future.
The Crisis is now, the war is coming. We must prepare for the worst.
Whether you accept it or not.
My fellow New Zealanders, we have reached a turning point.
Previous generations have left us with a world withering. Previous generations have shut their eyes to the murder and devastation wrought by their governments during their lifetime.
It's said that every person has their price,
Whats sad is how little the previous generation settled for.
Instead of marching towards world peace, the political inaction of the baby-boomers have left the United States free reign to pursue wars to shore up their business interests.
Instead of using the incredible surplus our steadily automating industries produce to end poverty and hunger worldwide, we waste nearly a third of the worlds global food production.
Instead of making good on our grandparents and great grandparents fight for economic justice, the last generation let unions be crushed and social systems sold. Merely because they couldn't stand to pay the taxes for the systems that raised them.
The Millenials have come of age and what an inheritance we have been given.
Whenever i talk to people about the coming collapse, we very rarely speak about whether there is going to be a collapse within our lifetime. And of those i have to have that conversation with, generally, have never had to think about world events in their life before.
For anyone who has been listening, watching, we know that collapse is coming. The question is when.
Maybe it'll come in 5 years, maybe 10. Maybe we will really stretch it out and go 20.
But the truth of the matter is that collapse is inevitable. We cannot go on convincing ourselves that our petty career climbing or white picket lives are anything but distractions now.
The collapse is coming, and we must be ready.
I have tried to ignore this fact. I've drowned myself in alcohol, weed and video games desperately trying to gain a brief respite from the knowledge that sometime in the coming years, much of our current society will collapse.
I imagine you've been doing much the same, but with different addictions. Consumerism, sex, TV, endless festival chasing. The possibilities for distraction are immense in this Brave New World.
But know this, no matter how long you stick your head in the sand and pray that your comfort continues, It wont.
And for every day you wasted not preparing, you are that much more beholden to those who had.
So, over the next year i'll be releasing articles detailing where this collapse came from, Why we must forge new systems, What those systems might need to give us a better future and crucially how we are to build those systems with our hands and that of our compatriots.
Over the next year, i will be building what i call the Edenist Manifesto.
Breaker, will talk about the world we live in. Where its rot originates and why it must be rent apart.
Binder, will talk about the world that should be. What beliefs should bind us together in our fight.
Builder, will talk about the world as we can make it. How, brick by brick, we will create this new world.
Eden is being snatched from our grasp by ruthless capitalists and emperors who see our earth as a chess board.
It is our duty as dreamers of a new future to strike them down. To snatch it back.
Post-scarcity is upon us friends! we need only grasp it.
