2012

Borrow Time

We are living on borrow time, from the first inhale of air in our lungs, to the last. From the first moment we feel the world is around us, and not just the human or other species under our yellow sun, but in few Billions years from now, where the yellow sun, become a red sun, in that moment, the live evolved under the yellow sun, will be no more, then and now the question is what to do, by then our descents will move to new worlds, or leave an situation where not depending on the yellow sun.

For that reason our spaceship: Earth, therefore we need to recognize we are in stewardship of this place, moreover we need to recognize the we have an obligation to each other, In Dune, Frank Herbert an ecologist, in his fiction novel, Dune was to train the right, for us the right is not just a rugged individual or collective dictatorship, bur in between: solidarity.

The collective dictatorship is represented by subjugation of the individual, base a religious believe found in theocratic society, found in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, even a non religious Buddhism.

Islam, historically is not just a social behaviour, but a political solution, where the ones who do not believe in their dogma where relegated to a second status Christians to Blue patches or Jews to Yellow patches, even limited how big their house or form of transportations, non-believers are limited to donkeys and horses, not camels since will be taller then believers, even to the sizes of their houses or places of worship.

Today we found theocratic states like Iran, Saudi Arabia where by law not just women are second class citizen but are reduce to be just property, but minorities in some case, under law a little better than a female, but a second class never less, an example, not just identification as such, but impact their lives from equal under law, from education to right under court. Events like in Egypt where Islamic Brotherhood is imposing a Islamic stated, where Christian Coptic’s will be relegated by law is permanent second class citizens, they are historically being second class citizen, but since Islamic Caliphate will be reduce into second class citizens.

Christianity has his periods where in British Colonies reactionary Protestants puritans deny not Just Catholics or Jews but impose a behaviour law, in the name to achieve a purity of ideal of early Christianity. Today is found in Protestants Fundamentalist and Roman Catholic Church with his obsession of the female sex, describe as dirt, by controlling sex behaviour abortion, in some ways the fear of not controlling the off spring, reduce ones again the female to just a type of property.

Judaism is a little more complicated, since Rome conquers Judah and denies the Jews right to the land and Constantine inherent the region through the Roman Empire, re-name Judah (Israel), where the two temples and close of 1,500 years of history to the name of Palestine to deny any right to the Jews, the competition between Christianity, Islam and Judaism who own God. Islam conquest of Palestine and in the 7 Century Islam codifies the second class citizens to Christians and Jews. Both of them made Jews permanent outsiders, the consequence in Europe was the Holocaust and Islam made the Jews as permanent second class citizen.

Other examples of this neo-religion, while not group have the right to impose in the case of China to Tibet, but Tibet was rule by monks who impose their own view of the world to their population.   

India the revival of Hindu fundamentalism mix with nationalism, created conflict with Islam, not to say the are historical roots to the conflict, the conquest of Islam to India, but this conquest are not unique, Islam conquest and hold Iberia Peninsula for 800 years, eventually Christian north, expulse Islam of the Peninsula. Few hundred years, Franco used this Islamic Armies against the Spanish Republic, in the name of Fascism.

The region where Islamic conquest had grave consequences was the Balkans, where Turk conquest of Christian Byzantium, but the stop of the Islamic Army in the Gates of Vienna, and WWI the pact between Imperial Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire and second chances when the Mufti of Jerusalem not just encourage and sanction the attack to Tel-Aviv in 1944 by fascist Italy, but created units attach to the SS not just in North Africa, but in Bosnia and Croatia, he was charges with crimes against humanity, since his units committed Genocide acts against the Slaves and Jews in Yugoslavia, in the 1990´s the Serbs, felt the need for revenge was necessary, the acts of WW II was never forgotten.

The other Dictators is the pseudo-science of Race where the idea of Authoritarian created by Mussolini Italy and supported by the House of Savoy, but Germany race become a political ideology to justify Germany Imperial ambition.

The dictatorship of class, where in the Spanish Revolution the class dictatorship was in direct conflict with the dictatorship of race, in the early days of the conflict the dictatorship of class made pact with the dictatorship of race, while in the long run the corruption of the absolute power collapse. But this fact does not mitigate the reasons why this ideologies rouse, the inequality of the 99% of the population.

Where, the rugged individualism has manifested in Liberal Democracies, where has build on Nepotism and privilege, now the 1% does not feel any need to compromised, they will like to hold and make sure, their off spring hold a privilege, what the arrogance ignorance forget, the New Deal was created to mitigated the contraposition, especially the Dictatorship of Class. The error, where the majority of population is deny access from education, to right of any kind of leaving using gate keepers and this gate keepers decided who is come through the door, what 2012 elections show, the Original sin in US Race, against African Americans the permanent under class and immigrants, in the 18, 19, and 20 Century, where Irish, Italian, Catholics and Jews, today Latin Americans, but permanent demographic ship, alter, the electoral college, the problem is eventually they become the elite—so far an exception is African Americans, since many ways US was found on an economic exploitation base on colour of the skin.

The answer first and most is Solidarity, a recognition, our time is limited in this earth, we can not survived just as individuals or a group forcing their will to the rest.

They are many levels to achieved solidarity, the first the political is a direct democracy so everyone is feel empower, not want should hold the power as permanent, as better, even takes longer to build a consensus, but need to be bases an equality of gender, religion, ethnic, race or sex orientation should not be any base for inequality.

In economic base,  property is base on privilege given by the a class, should be abolish, access of education is not just an skill or profession, but need to open for exploring the world around and ourselves, the economy should be run on the community need, should be local, cooperatives, group run enterprise. Yes, space exploration should be a fundamental; our time in this spaceship is limited. We should used this time, to learn from the evolution experiments, since our own survival depends, we should question and learn from nature, they are many ways to interpreted and to analyze the information, but more the any thing, solidarity, we are in all together, not 1%, but 100%, the injury to one is injury to all, the Wobblies.