by:
W. David Kubiak, Truthout | Op-Ed
Yes, Virginia, there really are silver bullets and here's a sterling one for you.
After a lifetime clashing with monstrous corporate bodies in the US,
India and Japan, I hobble into the Occupation arena with a grateful
hallelujah and some wild reconnaissance.
The hallelujah is a chorus, by the way.
It also arises from countless other US expatriates who have long lived
abroad and prayed for signs of a Yankee spring, i.e. any American
uprising against the rampant, corporate coup that's beggared the nation
at home and scarred its honor overseas.
As for the recon, life in Asia teaches you to see the world as an
interplay of living systems - ancient, healthy ones like tribes,
wetlands and mammal bodies, and newly emerging malignant ones like
megacorporations. It also suggests we're not simply facing a random
series of fiscal, social or environmental crises, but a human/megacorps
endgame battle for future of the earth.
Like the sorcerer's apprentice, we have conjured up an army of intended
servant beings that have grown colossal, escaped our control and now
overrun the planet. Indigenous leaders have begun calling big
multinationals bodies an "alien invasive species" that menace their
cultures and homelands more than any threat they've faced before.
In this view, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Agrobiz, Big
"Defense" et gargantuan cetera are all variations of an emergent new
life form - sensually/spiritually/morally blind superorganisms that are
alive, in charge and out of control. These Big Bodies' sickening effects
on our lands and lives are everywhere apparent, but the good news is
that they are a monocultured mutation and remedies that incapacitate
some may help to cure them all. READ MORE
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