This is a slightly altered and more conversational/personal audio version of a CounterPunch piece of mine that went up today: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/10/a-sick-dystopian-system-worth-overthrowing/
Here’s the part that didn’t make it into my audio because of my concern over time (in the past 22 minutes has been my cut off time for the audio file getting properly transferred to Substack):
….Even better are the words of an online friend the other day:
“We’re living in a sick, dystopian, Hunger Games world run by imperialists who are long past their use-by date and care nothing about humanity/planet. Look at the obscene Met Gala that took place the other night- celebrities, wealthy people dressed up in expensive clothing as the genocide in Gaza escalated. A ticket to that event was $75000. One woman’s dress was so complicated that she had to be carried up the steps into the building. Props to anti- genocide demonstrators who disrupted that event, making it clear to the world that it was an obscenity, in spite of violent police repression. Eric Adams, the pig mayor of NYC is the Black Guiliani- another pig who serves the interests of this system that needs to be dismantled and gotten rid of.”
Damn straight. That’s what I call telling it how it is.
We are long past revolution time. We need to catch up with our humanity and get serious cuz it’s like a couple German dudes wrote 176 years ago: its “the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large” or the “common ruin of all.”
A System Worth Overthrowing