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A friend shared this YouTube video with me today, saying
This a work of genius! Whatever else you're doing today, please take 2 minutes out of your day to watch this—and pass it along to as many people as you can.
Let's try to make it go viral, before the Megamachine Inc. takes it down...
Chevron Ad - YouTube
So I’m doing as my friend asked. But I want to add a simple message…, which isn’t such a simple message at all. It’s just a concise message.
My message is… I get it. Chevron sucks, and so do all of the big oil companies. And fossil fuel companies more generally. And sellers of cars — electric or otherwise. Corporations generally suck. They suck the life right out of the world. I get it.
However, when we buy their harmful products, and participate in their favored mode of material culture and economy, without also at least trying to genuinely break free (ideally in collaboration with members of our communities) as a collaborative culturally creative endeavor, we’re obviously complicit and implicated. Saying so is not to shame anyone. It’s just pointing out the obvious fact. I think it is more honest that way. And it’s also painful — more painful than simply painting these corporations as an evil monster. It’s a lot easier to simply blame the billionaires and corporations than to fully acknowledge how we’ve become dependent upon products that are destroying the only home we have.
Personally, I don’t think blame is useful. We ought to simply acknowledge the utter and stupid dysfunctionality of Megamachine Inc, and then withdraw our support of Megamachine Inc. wherever and whenever we can. And that’s going to require a collaborative effort, and a lot of love and courage.
I think we can do it. Let’s unplug ourselves from Megamachine Inc. It won’t be easy. But it will be good for our hearts, and good for our beautiful living Earth.
I'd have to also unplug from the device I'm on reading and responding to this. I didn't share this video further as I don't think my international networks would connect with the way its done. But I shared something else on fossil fuels and said:
"We all use them but we need all of us to shift off of them, and that takes all of us working together - innovators who understand what do do with all the science, policy makers, middle people who coordinate communicate market and sell to us, and us to be as educated as we can be on every topic.
We can only do that together as well. Surround yourself with diverse people who know different things and turn to them when you are out of your depth."