The real question you have to ask yourself, as the collateral damage mounts, is this:

Why is that not necessarily a good thing? Even as we see, and feel, things flying apart all around us, but are always so distracted, and numbed, and inured to the suffering; both of the very fabric of life itself for the planet, but for our long suffering, and decaying, social systems (because people aren't being socialized in any coherent, and stable way, at all any more).

Well... Think of it like this:

First of all, let's make one thing quite clear. It is not a water wheel, or an old windmill, or a steam engine, or a combustion engine even (ignoring the small bit of electricity it might take for spark ignition), that is powering this old economic operating system any more. It is electricity! Electrons gathered even, as if by magic, from sunlight itself, as well as from a whole host of well informed, new processes, that have able to turn silicone into magicly structured, weaving machines; spinning ever more of everything into gold now, for the ones who control how the structuring is defined of course.

So, why is that so important?

It is because, with simply pouring on more electrons, as your real modus operandi, in putting the pedal to the metal, as it were now, what you are doing is creating an acceleration modality that so vastly surpasses what old mechanical, and old chemical methods of energy translation, in creating motive force, to turn a wheel, or to push something along in a straight line faster, that this pouring on is like comparing Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, both shoveling coal into a railroad engine boiler, to a hyper velocity, electromagnetic rail gun, or somebody with quill pen, and ledger writing, to a modern, load balanced, transactional database.

Now, what is the consequence of that, you might ask?

It is this: Capitalism is a thing that was created for windmills, and water mills, and animal power, and even steam for a while. That heritage mandates a certain pace of things so that not only do the material aspects of what is produced get processed at a usually stoic pace, so does our ability to gain more knowledge, and thus upgrade process techniques, so as to improve efficiency; because of course profit and efficiency have become, knowingly, more mutually leveraging.

Now, however, that old pace of things is exactly a part of what we miss of simpler times.

And so the big wheels of production, for mass consumption, that has become the driving assumption of Capitalism, has to have amplified want to be the fuel to power the quite equally necessary, amplified rates of consumption (in a planet that can no longer tolerate that), because of course, the ever more efficient abilities makes every work effort, potentially much, much more productive; and all of that production must be sold or it interrupts the flow of money; and because money has been made as electrons, itself, moving through circuits via the path of least resistance, the acceleration that the idea of "putting the pedal to the metal" expressed, now gets locked into place.

And so now, not only is there no handle, or pedal, with which to slow the thing down with (that works very well any more, at least, and without creating horrific, cascading, collateral damages), the idea of process itself is made ever more controllable by the silicone weaving machines themselves, so that the electrons, and their least resistive demanding, new paths, are put in control, of more and more of everything (with all of the corruption, and addiction that entails).

The first part of the bottom line here is that, even without electrons, Capitalism was never all that structurally committed to real human need. It certainly could be responsive to it, in some ways, but because it has also been so susceptible to the inherent frailty of humans in the first place, because it has always been easier to induce people to buy into whatever if you use our baser instincts against us, as well as to say that it also feeds into the fear inherent in what drives greed, as is the nature of hoarding, but also of envy, and lust, for that is what powers the attractiveness of power in the first place.

Now consider electrified Capitalism under the rule of either a new human/machine tyrant, or just an AI tyrant. Do you really think it is going to be operating for very long with any regard for real human need? Beyond what might be some awful minimum to keep a biological backup to what the new rulers dictate is fodder, or grist, for the continuance of whatever continuing power accumulation, and utilization machine, the new tyrants, new found fantasies dictate? Ever more addictive fantasies directing the satisfaction of ever more demanding lusts; because the amping up will always have to continue. Because the old thrill never lasts very long now, does it.

The second part of the bottom line here is that neither the Democrats, nor the Republicans, have any real interest in changing, in any fundamental way, this out of control, electrified money making, mutation machine. They can't have as they are both so caught up in, and infused by, electrified money, there is no hope of ever separating them.

No, if we want things to change we will have to demand it directly by unified, and organized across most major forms of employment, comprehensive work stoppages. And only by demanding that something completely new be put into place for what is so abundantly, and clearly, obsolete. Something where we, the working people of America, own the communities we do our newly defined work for. Newly defined work that makes sure everyone feels needed, is given meaning, and has a real voice in what happens in their community. And every community is given new freedom in deciding how they want to live.

Think about it and, as I have said before. Just make sure you understand the very difficult choices that are going to be absolutely crucial in deciding whether we all survive or not in the next few decades. Like the Oracle in The Matrix made clear, no one can see beyond a choice they don't understand.

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