Image by Mike Newbry.
Nature is under siege. America’s debt slaves are paying for it. I know, duh!
Across Montana and the mountainous territories of the Northern Rockies ecosystem the Trump administration’s psychotic ‘flood-the-zone,’ scorched earth strategy is in full swing. Violent mechanical attacks target wilderness, critical wildlife habitat, remnant fragments of old growth forest, clean air, and clean water – liquidation and industrial-strength destruction, simultaneously.
Congress, most federal judges, and the Trump administration shamelessly subsidize habitat loss and species extinction.
Now in full-tantrum mode, Washington politicians and their brain-dead agency bootlickers (“just following orders”) have turned “regular congressional order” into Zio-Pseudo-Christian suck up sessions. Billionaire interlopers want to domesticate and convert millions of public wildlands into playgrounds.
These sick paternalistic nobodies use money and power to grab territory, destroy Mother Nature and all representations of the sacred feminine. It’s all very Old Testament redux.
“Flood the Zone” Political Strategy
Overloading the zone is the current preferred political strategy driving everyone crazy. Its objective is to create chaos, confusion and exhaustion in the media and cultural institutions. Information broadcast from a high-volume firehose, especially controversial executive orders and unprecedented supreme court decisions presented in a TV reality show format, kills honest debate by wearing down media newsrooms and overwhelming audiences until the psychological noise and its associated cognitive dissonance is normalized. It’s all part of the oligarchic plan behind fragmenting and annihilating any possibility of joining/rejoining that which is never meant to be apart. These are the twisted masterminds/puppeteers, funding, producing and directing Trump’s hyperreality show.
Information overload is designed to combine neoliberal (“supply-side”) economics with Zio-Pseudo-Christian literalist doctrine, presented ad nauseam in rapid-fire Trumpisms (extemporaneous cartoon dramas). When aggregated and force-fed to consumers, information overload conditions us to unlearn our natural ability to discern by robbing us of our instinctive ability to feel. It is important to understand how flooding the zone feeds multiple oligarchic worldwide aims: 1) human sacrifice/depopulation, 2) extending social control, 3) maximizing deterrence, and 4) global domination over individuals and nations. Mass neurosis is exhausting, it overwhelms and neutralizes much of the opposition.
In reality, it is indifference that rules over the kingdom of difference; there is no longer any concern here with distinguishing between true or false or between liberty and irresponsibility. This is a tangible indifference. – Annie le Brun, Reality Overload, p. 195. (2000).
Contemporary Innovations of Capitalism
Empire’s power grab for territory is seen clearly in the forced starvation and genocide in Gaza, as in perpetual war, as in the slaughter of wild Yellowstone buffalo entering Montana for a bite to eat, and as in native forests being “treated” (bulldozed, clearcut, torched by government arsonists, and masticated to feed more cows). This territorial power grab has now migrated into the sensory cultural realm, increasing human insensitivity, and degrading our relationships with other living beings and our natural environment.
All relationships are threatened by secular techno-geeks and religious fanatics – God’s chosen people – determined to replace natural interdependencies with their calamitous belief in fictitious materialism. History and critical meaning are diluted altered, and gradually erased, as powerful commercial forces subvert and replace the imaginary, the creative, and the natural rhythms of the magical with the mechanical and virtual. Models and virtual realities eat away at our memory, robbing us of the dream that once illuminated solitude and spaces that transcend beyond our known horizons. Technology keeps arresting human potential by pushing aside dreams with machine-made virtual hyperreality.
Imagine and Prepare the Transition Toward a New Era
“Oh my brothers, am I perhaps cruel? But I say: if something is falling, one should also give it a push! Everything of today – it is falling, it is failing: who would want to stop it! But I–I want to push it too!” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
A strong and growing grassroots resistance movement is fighting against privatization of public lands, weaker environmental laws, and the spiraling downward trends toward mass extinctions and meaningless (sometimes zero) public participation.
The system’s theft of our imagination threatens the fundamental ground of our continued existence. How will we overcome this piracy, these psychotic pirates?
It is time for all passionate freethinkers to emerge as individuals and small groups, stand up for voiceless animals and plants. Be counted and think deeply about co-creating the transition leading to the next era. What will it be? How will we get there? How will we transcend the intractable problem of anxiety over meaninglessness and our own finitude?
Dreams inspire our most creative thoughts. We must repossess our deepest connections to qualitative time (Kairos), our physical world, and to all other lifeforms. Something magical, ineffable, is waiting to be rediscovered in Nature. Beyond mindless consumption and conformity, this something is in us, not out there.
Lesson #1: Nature’s laws have been trying to teach us that man is hardly the entirety of all infinite space and time. Man is not God and thus not the Creator of himself or of his Natural Environment (Source).
We must find the courage to gather and reassemble the wonderful analogical moments (fragments) that spark individual passion for the poetic and artistic and restore our individual life, our sensory life.
Think on it, dream on it, accept the invitation to co-create the future where we all can ultimately reconnect as an integral part of being-itself. Dream Big!
A donation to the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and to Counterpunch helps a lot. Small individual contributions keep these exemplary groups working on behalf of some of the most threatened sentient beings who will never have a vote, a piggy bank, or a voice in today’s mad, mad world.
