One thing I am always impressed about on Docudharma is how we not only talk about how to change the political system that currently exists but how to upend it using disruptive politics, technologies and techniques.
We talk about restoring the centrality of community to our lives. It is this concept of community which, many of us feel, will provide a needed bulwark against the depredation of corporate feudalists and looters.
The social aspect of community, and what Americans are lacking in that regard, is well established and has been for a long time.
It’s not my favorite genre of music, but the best example of exactly what I think of as wrong in terms of American community or lack thereof goes like this:
And, if you think about it this way, the fact that our culture is sick and overrun with parasitism begins to make sense if you think about it in an organic way.
For decades, we have had a monoculture of American expectations .. what Americans are supposed to do, how Americans are supposed to live.
But one thing you learn about in Biology 101, is that monocultures die out. Why do they die out? Because they are far more vulnerable to predation by parasites. Any given parasite can more easily infect and destroy a population if that population is the same than if there are many different and varied populations.