{"id":489,"date":"2021-12-18T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/?p=489"},"modified":"2021-12-18T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:33:09","slug":"the-end-is-he-beginning-vandana-shiva-oneness-vs-the-1-shattering-illusion-seeding-freedom-chelsea-green-2018-with-kartikey-shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/the-end-is-he-beginning-vandana-shiva-oneness-vs-the-1-shattering-illusion-seeding-freedom-chelsea-green-2018-with-kartikey-shiva\/","title":{"rendered":"The End is he Beginning: Vandana Shiva, ONENESS vs the 1% – Shattering Illusion, Seeding Freedom, Chelsea Green 2018 \u2013 with Kartikey Shiva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One year after Douglas Rushkoff\u2019s Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus <\/a><\/em>\u2013 disturbing enough an analytical description of the evolution of Corporatism since the late Middle Ages and its apotheosis during the present days \u2013 Vandana Shiva published an even more detailed, harrowing, terrifying and revolting account of where the present global society is heading for: the abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vandana Shiva is an acclaimed scientist and since decades a crusader for upholding objective scientific standards, apart from being one of if not THE most influential activist for the protection of our environment in terms of biodiversity and the protection of seedbanks, farmers and local culture from the monopolizing grip and greed of GMOs and their corporate robber barons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, ONENESS vs the 1% <\/em>like Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus<\/em>, ends on a note of hope in the face of despair. This is amazing and demonstrates the pervasive strength of the concept of ONENESS, which consists in a universal and even historic interconnectedness \u2013 that means in a spiritual as much as biological principle \u2013 which makes it qualitatively superior to and therefore untouchable by the 1%. So it is that Shiva devotes the last chapter to the guiding action principles of the Mahatma Gandhi, Swaray \u2013 the freedom of all beings, Swadeshi \u2013 wealth and well being within and according to locality, Satyagraha \u2013 the power of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new edition from 2020 has an Epilog added, which sheds some clear light on the predicament and causes of the present pandemic and the exploits it provides for the 1% at the cost of many \u2013 many many many \u2013 more millions of lives than those reported daily by the aligned news empires of the Western global world and cumulatively accounted for in the macabre and manipulative Corona Tickers of not only the Chinese SCMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We quote it in full below and with that wish you all a Merry Christmas and Hope for the Next Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F.N.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. The real threat to life, he said, is \u200b\u2018not missiles, but microbes<\/a>.\u2019 When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth like a tsunami five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as \u200b\u201ca world war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence <\/em>of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. But, in fact, we are part of the biome. And we are part of the virome. The biome and the virome are us. When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric worldview that considers humans separate from\u2009\u2014\u2009and superior to\u2009\u2014\u2009other beings. Beings we can own, manipulate, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New diseases arise because a globalized, industrialized, inefficient agriculture invades habitats, destroys ecosystems, and manipulates animals, plants, and other organisms with no respect for their integrity or their health. We are linked worldwide through the spread of diseases like the coronavirus because we have invaded the homes of other species, manipulated plants and animals for commercial profits and greed, and cultivated monocultures. As we clear-cut forests, as we turn farms into industrial monocultures that produce toxic, nutritionally empty commodities, as our diets become degraded through industrial processing with synthetic chemicals and genetic engineering, and as we perpetuate the illusion that earth and life are raw materials to be exploited for profits, we are indeed connecting. But instead of connecting on a continuum of health by protecting biodiversity, integrity, and self-organization of all living beings, including humans, we are connected through disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the International Labour Organization<\/a>, \u200b\u201c1.6 billion informal economy workers (representing the most vulnerable in the labour market), out of a worldwide total of two billion and a global workforce of 3.3 billion, have suffered massive damage to their capacity to earn a living. This is due to lockdown measures and\/\u200bor because they work in the hardest-hit sectors.\u201d According to the World Food Programme, a quarter of a billion additional people<\/a> will be pushed to hunger and 300,000 could die every day. These, too, are pandemics that are killing people. Killing cannot be a prescription for saving lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health is about life and living systems. There is no \u200b\u201clife\u201d in the paradigm of health that Bill Gates and his ilk are promoting and imposing on the entire world. Gates has created global alliances to impose top-down analysis and prescriptions for health problems. He gives money to define the problems, and then he uses his influence and money to impose the solutions. And in the process, he gets richer. His \u200b\u201cfunding\u201d results in an erasure of democracy and biodiversity, of nature and culture. His \u200b\u201cphilanthropy\u201d is not just philanthrocapitalism. It is philanthroimperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown have revealed even more clearly how we are being reduced to objects to be controlled, with our bodies and minds as the new colonies to be invaded. Empires create colonies, colonies enclose the commons of the indigenous living communities and turn them into sources of raw material to be extracted for profits. This linear, extractive logic is unable to see the intimate relations that sustain life in the natural world. It is blind to diversity, cycles of renewal, values of giving and sharing, and the power and potential of self-organising and mutuality. It is blind to the waste it creates and to the violence it unleashes. The extended coronavirus lockdown has been a lab experiment for a future without humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 26, 2020, at a peak of the coronavirus pandemic and in the midst of the lockdown, Microsoft was granted a patent by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Patent WO 060606<\/a> declares that \u200b\u201cHuman Body Activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u200b\u201cbody activity\u201d that Microsoft wants to mine includes radiation emitted from the human body, brain activities, body fluid flow, blood flow, organ activity, body movement such as eye movement, facial movement, and muscle movement, as well as any other activities that can be sensed and represented by images, waves, signals, texts, numbers, degrees, or any other information or data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patent is an intellectual property claim over our bodies and minds. In colonialism, colonisers assign themselves the right to take the land and resources of indigenous people, extinguish their cultures and sovereignty, and in extreme cases exterminate them. Patent WO 060606 is a declaration by Microsoft that our bodies and minds are its new colonies. We are mines of \u200b\u201craw material\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009the data extracted from our bodies. Rather than sovereign, spiritual, conscious, intelligent beings making decisions and choices with wisdom and ethical values about the impacts of our actions on the natural and social world of which we are a part, and to which we are inextricably related, we are \u200b\u201cusers.\u201d A \u200b\u201cuser\u201d is a consumer without choice in the digital empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s not the totality of Gates\u2019 vision. In fact, it is even more sinister\u2009\u2014\u2009to colonise the minds, bodies, and spirits of our children before they even have the opportunity to understand what freedom and sovereignty look and feel like, beginning with the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York announced a partnership with the Gates Foundation to \u200b\u201creinvent education<\/a>.\u201d Cuomo called Gates a visionary and argued that the pandemic has created \u200b\u2018a moment in history when we can actually incorporate and advance [Gates\u2019] ideas\u2026all these buildings, all these physical classrooms\u2009\u2014\u2009why with all the technology you have?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Gates has been trying to dismantle the public education system of the United States<\/a> for two decades. For him students are mines for data. That is why the indicators he promotes are attendance, college enrollment, and scores on a math and reading test, because these can be easily quantified and mined. In reimagining education, children will be monitored through surveillance systems to check if they are attentive while they are forced to take classes remotely, alone at home. The dystopia is one where children never return to schools, do not have a chance to play, do not have friends. It is a world without society, without relationships, without love and friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I look to the future in a world of Gates and Tech Barons, I see a humanity that is further polarized into large numbers of \u200b\u201cthrow away\u201d people who have no place in the new Empire. Those who are included in the new Empire will be little more than digital slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, we can resist. We can seed another future, deepen our democracies, reclaim our commons, regenerate the earth as living members of a One Earth Family, rich in our diversity and freedom, one in our unity and interconnectedness. It is a healthier future. It is one we must fight for. It is one we must claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stand at a precipice of extinction. Will we allow our humanity as living, conscious, intelligent, autonomous beings to be extinguished by a greed machine that does not know limits and is unable to put a break on its colonisation and destruction? Or will we stop the machine and defend our humanity, freedom, and autonomy to protect life on earth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One year after Douglas Rushkoff\u2019s Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus \u2013 disturbing enough an analytical description of the evolution of Corporatism since the late Middle Ages and its apotheosis during the present days \u2013 Vandana Shiva published an even more detailed, harrowing, terrifying and revolting account of where the present global society is heading for: the abyss. Vandana Shiva is an acclaimed scientist and since decades a crusader for upholding objective scientific standards, apart from being one of if not THE most influential activist for the protection of our environment in terms of biodiversity and the protection of seedbanks, Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,52,34],"tags":[213,136,215,210,214,211,212,209],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-adaption","category-environment-and-future","category-giraffe","category-human-rights-civil-disobedience-courage-honesty","tag-biodiversity","tag-covid19","tag-democracy-and-dictatorship","tag-douglas-rushkoff","tag-junk-food","tag-oneness","tag-satyagraha","tag-vandan-shiva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}