The Right is in denial, the Left running scared, and our world leaders lack vision and guts. We’re all just thrashing around. And the time clock’s almost down to zero.
Maybe our best play now is to totally rethink what it is we’re doing here, in the tail end of the consumer-capitalist mindfuck. And come up with some ritual that is just bewilderingly disruptive, radically out of hand.
Here's the deal: We take this one day of the week and repurpose it. Rededicate it to the service of the wild human spirit and a sustanable future. Make it a new kind of 21st century holiday:
A Global Day of Action.
Instead of working, we start the day by staring into the mirror, building up resistance in the circuitry of the heart. And then we hit the streets to sow inspired anarchic bliss.
We turn our cities into carnivals, our universities into hotbeds of revolutionary fervor, our supermarkets into fervent staging ground, our financial districts into fiery zones of contention. We churn everything up!
Some of us write poems and shoot them into cyberspace. Others wander around editing media messages, detourning ads, placing OUT OF ORDER signs on ATMS, posting ultimatums and manifestos on lampposts, singing in Starbuck's, taking our dog into the bank.
Every Friday, we say to world leaders:
Look, we don't trust you anymore. You're totally mishandling the climate crisis, the financial crisis, the refugee crisis. Your bureaucratic ways simply don't cut it anymore. So from now on We the People are going to upend 20,000 years of top-down rule and start calling the shots from below.
Here's what we want you to do:
We play jazz, discover new riffs, turn every friday into a drumbeat for a new world order.
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