Polemos

Originally posted 9:31 PM, Sunday, 19 September, 2004

The feral male of our species does not vote and does not collect the dole, I guess he doesn’t have a wage either so he doesn’t have to dodge paying tax or if he has divested himself of all bureaucratic identity he is a feral ghost in the black market machine. But he does use the internet (on a stolen or ancient computer and a hacked ISP?) which nonetheless runs on electricity that he presumably does not pay for. Nor does he eat any form of processed food supplied by the mechanised agricultural industry fed by our oil economy and its petrochemical fertilisers and pesticides, or at least he eats only ‘organic’ produce but not from the large supermarket chains that are the main distribution channel for our industrial farms.

He certainly does not drive a car as paying for fuel not only contributes to global warming caused by globalisation and its consumption of fossil fuels but is also heavily taxed. I hope he doesn’t smoke cigarettes as these are also heavily taxed and merely uphold the multi-billion dollar global tobacco industry. He refuses to purchase any form of plastics, in fact any commercial goods requiring transport, as these also uphold the global oil economy by consuming huge amounts of oil as raw material and for fuel. He also trusts only homeopathic remedies rather than the drugs synthesised from petrochemical sources.

I imagine he drinks only rain water as well since our privatised water corporations are also tied up in the bureaucracy of the fossil fuel economy and use electricity to pump our mains water provided by commercial coal and gas energy. Relying on solar and wind to generate electricity and permaculture to survive, and having rid himself of all dependency on the modern conveniences paid for by the exponential growth of globalisation since WW2 and founded on the constant growth in the production and consumption of oil, he is well placed to survive the coming energy descent. He will also make an excellent conscientious objector once the balloon goes up and the federal government is forced to institute a draft to feed the total war machine.