Lazy bastard

OK. I was going to paste a couple of paragraphs from an email, so here they are:

We don't have time for fundamentalists of any kind, whether god-botherers, party-ideologists or Newtonian-Cartesian-obsessives.
We can't afford to leave the devastation of the planet's climate to single-issue-environmentalists.
We can't afford to leave the corporate rape of the human population to union activists and human rights' fighters.
We can't say 'Stop the War' and ignore the famine and disease.
We can't fight for freedom and ignore overpopulation.

And every political ideology is based on a paradigm that came into being with the first phase of the industrial revolution (be that beginning in the 1770's in England, 1787 in France, or 1865 in the USA).
If Douglas Adams was still alive, I'd suggest we invent quantum politics. Where you can't tell what the spin on a certain issue is until there's an observer to intervene in the process.

In the absence, my plan for a revolution is as follows:
"Overthrow all capitalist/hierarchical structures"
"And what are you going to put in their place?"
"Dunno, but IMHO destroying the entire planet and having millions dying daily of starvation and easily treatable diseases is just about as crap as it gets, so I'm pretty confident we can work something out between us."

The basics behind this is being annoyed at the state of science in a society that is driven by science, and in a world where science tells us we're fucking our entire ecosystem. Also, how this relates to our spiritual understanding of religion, the meaning of life, and all that other shit.

OK, I'm a bit spoilt in this, because I understand the meaning of life (which is not such a big deal, so let's ignore that for now); but it's a bit difficult to get used to the fact that most people are as ignorant of the science surrounding their lives - the technology that supplies their electricity, delivers gas to their cars, connects their computers to this website - as if they were early-settlers believing in some mad-shepherd's monotheistic ravings.
People in the West accept this stuff without having the slightest fucking clue what makes it happen - which is why we have such a hard time making them understand why the planet is being fucked up. Most people have essentially no better theoretical understanding of why the light works in their room, or the TV gets Fox, than some dude in Bhutan who never had a history in this shit till 5 years back.
In Bhutan, I can understand this ignorance, because it'sa new concept, and folks are playing catch up.
But in countries like England or the States or Netherlands - well, simply put, there is no fucking excuse. It actually makes me angry. So I would see it like this:
"Sorry, we're cutting off your gas. You can't use it anymore".
"No, I need that, I can't live without it"
"Oh, you can't live without it. Do you know where it comes from?"
"No."
"Do you know what damage it does when we use it?"
"No."
"Do you know how much we have left?"
"No."
"Then shut the fuck up and piss off."

If it's so fucking important to you now, at least take enough of an interest to find out a bit about it.
Of course, when you see what people ingest, sometimes despite their better knowledge, well, no surprise that they don't give a shit. WHo, with even the slightest education, would eat a McDonalds' burger?

So, I don't agree that the fight to change - or rather, save - the World is just a question of winning the argument. That would be easy.
What we need to do is restore sanity to a good part of the wrold's population. And that's a bit more difficult...

I heard a thing a few years back, and I heard it on the radio, so I don't have alink to hand, that two thirds of the world' population are clinically speaking "Mentally ill". And in Western countries, this number approaches 90%.
I don't have a link for this report, but I do remember that it was issued by the UN/WHO. Most people, of course, have ignored it.
As a thought though, can you think of one leader of a major military power in the last 25 years who was vaguely sane?