And... consider this from Catherine Austin Fitts which amplifies our sense of urgency.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, explains the podrunks’ impoverishment imperative this way:
The issue is not whether capitalism will continue to exist or not. It’s doomed. The issue is what will replace it. It’s no longer possible to have serious accumulation of capital because the costs are too high in terms of purchasing power…Capitalism as a system depends on lots of people working to produce surplus value that ends up in a few hands. This results in polarization. If thirty percent of Indians or the Chinese are middle class…a lot more money has to go into their hands. So the world level of profits declines with the growth of the middle class globally. And they consume an enormous amount of goods – food and energy – so you see prices go way up because there are more people who can afford to buy those products. Now there could be a substitution – Americans consume less as the Chinese consume more – but there’s resistance to that…One way is to reduce labor costs…bring in rural populations at lower wages, but we’re running out of them. Within the next twenty-five years they’ll be wiped out. (Interview on Against the Grain, KPFA Radio, April 28 and 29, 2008)
As capitalism runs out of sixteen year-old girls in Djakarta, Cavite, Lagos, Sao Paulo, Tijuana, with their dexterous fingers and endurance, fresh from the farmlands their governments grab, the families their governments impoverish, with their good hearts and heroic shoulders, whatever will capitalism do?
In that interview Wallerstein added that when production – making things – can no longer return the rate of profit podrunks want, provide their raison d’etre, they redirect their ‘capital’ to finance, “which is simply speculation, which leads to high unemployment, wider disparities, and debt.” [See: The Two Winds (pt. 2) in Waking Up]
...we have no choice but to unplug and to organize -- thereby embracing our responsibility as thinking human beings.
This unique moment in human history presents us with a choice. We either reclaim responsibility for making the decisions that we all have to live with, or we allow 'Power' to make them – and their plans for us are not benign....
Again...case in point: Catherine Austin Fitts...... (Larger print reprint of same: Catherine Austin Fitts blog on "Depopulation." )
And note the blog on this site: Depopulation
And: Unmasking Complicity's False Sweetness and Countering Complicity With Good Fellowship.