John Michael Greer has been active in the alternative
spirituality
movement for more than 25 years, and is the author of a dozen
books,
including The Druidry Handbook (2006) and The Long Descent (2008).
He
lives in Ashland,
Oregon.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2009/01/pornography-of-political-fear.html
Comment
But all the things the left voiced its concerns about did in fact
happen .
. . on another earth, where the left did not voice
its concerns. Halliburton
did not just build new prisons, the state
of California was converted into a
penal colony like the state of
Georgia once was. Haliburton's slogan was "What Was
Good
for Moma and Daddy, Is Better for Us Children."
On this other earth,
the war fatigue of the population was not talked about
and Jeb Bush
won another election as Governor of Florida. This other earths
Obama
did not say "Yes, We Can," but rather "No I Cannot," and took a job on the
staff of Hailburton. When the financial markets destabilized in
2006, on the other earth, a huge section of the working class in the
American Midwest became fearful and restless drifting to the fascist right.
Henry C. K. Liu's writings were banned planet wide, except China, where
he fled under the protection of China's "Oversea Chinese Protection
Act," under article Three, subsection 4: the "Do you really want to screw
around with 1.3 billion people question."
Pen-L was shut down under the "Economics makes my head hurt Act,"
section two article 15; "what do I care about exchange value, when I ain't got
no value to exchange, fool."
Michael Hudson was placed under 50 years house arrest using the
retroactive sentencing law, charging him with a criminal article he
wrote when he was 9. Lou P was placed in Jim Crow solitary under the
"class trumps race Act," article one, section one, first sentence. "My
class trump everything." My counter part was given a 300 years sentence and
charged with the "Your ass said you feel like you was in prison anyway,"
ordinance.
There was no Obama to capture the workers spontaneous drift to the
right, because of the Obama momma is really Dorothy of Kansas in the Wizard of
Oz, incident
The workers agreed to allow the McCain/Bush W. ticket another
chance, for "extraordinary reasons." On the other earth "extraordinary"
is defined as "ordinary things a human find extra hard to think about."
Millions of people joined the fascist, "Boss I Am not thinking" movement.
A thousand, nay . . . a million individual acts that took place on
our earth
did not take place on the other earth and Bush W. did in
fact jail an
additional 3 million people under the Patriot Act 4, in
September 2008.
The inarticulate vision of our earth American
left, was incredibly accurate and the logic behind the vision was
converted into an organizing tool that gripped the
masses; a hundred
million people got scared at the same time and said, "oh shit, everything is
coming apart, give it to the black guy with the funny name, because they don't
want to work anyway and we can beat up the Mexicans and have all the jobs."
.
Mothers with children in arms pleaded for the working class of
the Midwest not to follow the Bush W. path. Sections of our military
and intelligence agencies became polarized and start leaking information
because they were scared of being put in jail under a "new and improved"
Patriot Act. Our Jeb Bush was defeated in Florida and the black people
could vote in relative peace. Everyone took part in creating a different
future/present. The CPUSA said, "we are going to vote our way into something
and if we lucky, we will be able to drive big cars again. Long Live the
Industrial Proletariat, all 12 of them, which happen to be my cousins."
That is how our earth created a different future, a different time
line.
Having discovered the means to breach the threshold
separating our two
earths, 3 million people - sliders, all white
middle class folks, have volunteered to go to the other earth and fight
for a new vision. When asked why blacks would not slide, all of them
responded, "I might slide back into slavery. Let's wait to see what happen to
the white peoples."
WL.