‘THE TRAUMATISED SOCIETY — HOW TO OUTLAW CHEATING AND SAVE OUR CIVILISATION,’ Fred Harrison – launched in October 2012; summarised here in some rough hewn, broken text, written to get a concentrated view of the stern and starkly honest account of 500 years of mis-used, indeed insidiously socially disruptive, ‘economic rent’ . This served as the climax of the ‘Quilligan and Allied Seminars’ in Oct. 22-28th 2012
ENDEMIC DECAY
‘Tis all too readily to be seen
the interplay, systemic decay,
revealing geno-cide, side by side,
with many-angled eco-cide
merging remorselessly, without delay,
into humanicide.
Is the tide turning
or the darkness deepening?
Alas time will not tell
for time is not available,
but well-noted evidence of
imminent danger requires
immediate action
in the urgency of now..
SYSTEMIC RECOVERY
Action by everyone at their
hard yard daily points
of contact with this global house-,
seen now so desperate
for wise —keeping.
As we each play a part, seen far and wide,
growing public clamour will announce
the changing mindset that will prove
opportunity for root and branch
structural, personal and wide societal,
renewal, to consistently re-plenish.
Only when assured systemic interplay
is alive again today,
will ‘geno-regeneration’,
‘eco-replenishment’ and
‘a new humanity’ arise,
side by side, where once
advanced a planetary suicide.
The creative surplus
of all our energies and talents,
the planet’s commons,
our shared wealth,
become again the resources of humanity,
for common good, our flourishing,
the earth’s well-being,
her economic rent
rightly valued everywhere.
It poses the question of how we can communicate the seriousness and urgency of radical reform in a movement that takes account of many starting points.
ECONOMY OF DEGRADTION:
The Market State uses many forms of dissociation to deny the autonomy of personal capital and sustain the division of commons capital. ‘These include the division of labor, resource extraction, rent, surplus accumulation, issuance of currency, interest rates, debt, commodifkation, reductionism, disinformation, deterritorialization, subsistence, slavery, colonialism, state terrorism, oppression, violence and war. .
ECONOMY OF REPLENISHMENT:
It suggests historical and current parallels between the development of political economy and the development of individual and collective conscious value. It also anticipates new areas of realization, growth and organisation that will result from a transformation of the personal motivations, drives and meaning involved in people’s shared management of their commons, which in turn will transnational political economy both nationally and globally.