Pepe always gives good column.
This one's important as it gives the big picture of the past decade: the world's primary socio-economic paradigms of the last half-millenium are getting very shaky indeed and the race has now begun to identify their replacements. Will Marx be proven prescient on his Capitalism-bashing? Can we peer far enough into the future to tell whether of not America's self-inflicted collapse will necessarily take the rest of the planet, and all life on it, along for the ride?
Assuming some vestige - perhaps entire regions - of humanity survives the Great American Collapse (or Dissolve, a la the USSR - if only), what might replace our present mammon-mad mountebankery of avaricious apes? Try this:
Kibbutz Model - no doubt we are headed in this direction (ante-permaculture) by default. The mere paucity of cheap fossil energy (until solar, etc. kicks in) -and many other - reserves will make such societal arrangements ineluctable. For millennia, communes used to be the the most pragmatic way to combine close community with limited resources for the greater good of all. A recent Independent Lens (PBS - where else?) film gives a stark portrait of what happens when we lose that sense of community, even as it showcases the strengths of human bonding derived from such types of organizations. The kibbutzniks' (residents/owners) sense of loss is palpable.
Update: I saw this on PBS World, one of my digital, over-the-air (as in, free), channels. It's next showing on PBS World (on WGCU in Ft Myers which is broadcast over WEDU's digital channel 3) is on Sunday, October 2nd at 6AM, NOON and 6PM. If you have a converter (analog-to-digital) or it is one of your cable channels, you'll be able to view it. Until then, the best I can offer you is a trailer. Turns out this docu has only just been released. It is a powerful film,
Whenever it become's all about the money, cooperative society always takes the hit.
orb-pc COMMUNAL SOCIETY Keeping the Kibbutz #2.48 trailer filmsite 2011
How estranged must a society become before it it is one in name only?
Could this ever happen in a kibbutz?
rot AMERICA's ATOMIZED SOCIETY - DEAD 15 MONTHS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED usatoday 07-02-11
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"There is no greater disaster than greed." – Lao-tzu
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
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