I wish I could provide a happy-ever-after ending. The closest I can come to such an ending is to say that it appears to me that there is a literal Higher Power that is somehow providing an enormous amount of energy in a way that allows the Universe to continually expand. This literal Higher Power is, in some way, influencing the world today, through the self-organizing nature of the economy. The book Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe, by Ward and Brownlee, explains that life could not have happened on the Earth, as quickly as it did, by chance alone. Perhaps things will turn out differently than we expect.
What.
Gail is a believer. Perhaps believing in a Plan makes it easier to handle.
The rest of the article is filled with anti-communism as well.
What a load of utter bullshit.
You might well believe that, but try forming arguments instead of stating your beliefs.
What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Oh no, not our precious neolib governments :((
As an anarchist, I won’t shed any tears for neoliberal states either.
However I believe Gail raises several important points that relevant to us leftists: She effectively discusses material conditions and how economies are hinged on them despite how neoliberal financialization urges us to pretend otherwise, the reality that energy crises will lead to supply chain disruption and starvation even in (cough militarily) developed nations, the potential debt bomb traps that the working class we be expected to compensate for, and other issues that warrant dual power and mutual aid organization in the present moment.
We have to walk a fine line to protect ourselves from propaganda while not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however it appears Gail sources many statements so that we can read more and draw our own conclusions. Of course this is a relatively superficial overview of the specific mechanisms and history involved - it covers quite a range of material in a relatively short format - and it was light on ecological systems, but I didn’t find there to be particularly strong spin or propaganda. The author is more attached to governments while I’m more attached to human lives, but the source of our concern is shared between us.
If some of these concepts are not familiar to any fellow leftists, I encourage you to look them up and to go ahead and try to find leftist sources to see how other people have aligned these issues and data points within their political frameworks. I do not read this particular publication so I cannot to speak of its quality, however I know that there is an author at https://beneaththepavement.substack.com who approaches many of these same topics from an left/anarchist standpoint.
