“The water will stop coming out to the letter and at the temperature it wants,” I think every time I open the kitchen or shower fountains. “At home we will have to learn to live with the cold”, when heating is switched on. “Will life become materially impossible in medium-sized cities like Vitoria-Gasteiz?” when making the purchase. How are we going to work in ARGIA when because of lack of gasoline we cannot get together many times, or when we turn electronic appliances into luxury with dozens of scarce minerals?”, by car, to Lasarte. "The war, which we're used to exporting, is going to hit the door of our house? looking at Ukraine. Repetitive thoughts.
"The agenda of our elites is clear. What are the citizens going to do? What do you think of left, countrymen?
It's come. In 2008, we reflected in the neighborhood, “with what was coming”, that we should promote the transformation by organizing popular parties or occupying spaces rather than fighting for food and housing for all, because the excluded would multiply – although the marginalized would continue to be “the others”. In 2015, the encyclopedic reading The energy spiral caused me chills to “what we had close by.” The pandemic was triggered in the midst of the process of creating the neighborhood’s food network, and for the first time I felt that community satisfaction with basic needs could become “tomorrow” not only “the one of others”, but also a tool to meet my needs. Energy crises, climate chaos, wars and mass migrations, supply problems... Reading with collapse was an intellectual exercise yesterday; today it is a tangible reality: just as revolution does not start or end on epic day E, collapse is a process.
I think that, perhaps with too much optimism, it would be easy to solve many of the problems that lie ahead: sharing, collectivizing, reducing, reusing... Many of these changes would bring us not only survival, but also joy of life. I see Europe multiplying military budgets and values in the heat of a war that breaks, and I think, with too much pessimism, that there has been no dominant group in history that has accepted the ‘with sportsmanship’ retreat: that we Europeans will not be better, we will defend the privileges achieved by the war by deepening it, because even if the massacre is ‘sterile’, the loss of hegemony is not reversed.
The agenda of our elites is clear. What are the citizens going to do? What do you think of the people as left-wing? To continue at the expense of the elites to desperately defend our golden cage – cage, but gold-colored cage – which will continue to grow? “In a society where resources diminish, we learn to share them like never before, or we will kill ourselves like never before,” wrote Emilio Santiago Muiño. Let's take a half lap and start sharing it. Create and strengthen routines, desires, ethics, structures, organizations that make exchange possible.
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