Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

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55. I agree

But for most people it's the present situation that matters, so my article sticks with the situation we're all familiar with.

The critique of how we got here, and when TSHTF for the first time is complex. Most of us pin it on the development of agriculture - or more precisely, when we started locking up the resulting food. But that analysis isn't essential to understand what's going on today. It IS essential, however, if you want to claim - as I do - that there is no way to fix what's going on today (the insoluble predicament of GlobCiv 1.0) within the context of our current civilization.

In fact, I can make a reasonable case that this situation is the unavoidable result of homo sapiens' evolutionary development of self-awareness waaaay back when. Self-awareness automatically implies other-awareness, and if self is important and not-self is less so, you have the foundation of a system that permits the view that the universe (including other life and other people) as an enormous bag of resources for me and my buddies to use as we see fit.

But as I said, we don't need to go all the way to the bottom of the rabbit hole in order to get a working-level understanding of why the FBI are prepared to zap Occupy.