David Graeber. Not David Gray. Don’t trust
him on this issue. David Graeber an anarchist,
anthropologist said cancel debt for ordinary
people so like your mortgage and credit cards
could be cancelled. Imagine that. “That
can’t be done. That can’t happen. You
can’t just cancel debt.” Oh you can. The financial
industry cancelled trillions of dollars of
debt. They just cancelled it. It just went
away. Just went away. There’s this thing
called quantitative easing. You might not have
heard of quantitative easing. It means the
Government pumps our money into the financial
industry to keep it afloat and what do they
tell you? Oh, capitalism, the free market,
it’s good for it. It’s competitive, it
holds stuff together. It needs to be held
together with all sorts of structures and
your money. So like instead of cancelling
debts for people that have already got loads
of money and working in an imaginary, metaphorical
financial industry, cancel debt for your parents
and you, people that you care about and love.
That’s a possibility.
Anarcho syndicalism, collectivism, direct
democracy, liquid democracy, cooperatives.
Run your own workplaces. Run your own communities
using the technology that already exists.
It’s not like oh it’s just some drifty
airy fairy thing. Take away corporate power,
don’t cooperate, organise, don’t pay your
mortgages, don’t pay your taxes, not on
your own, you’ll go to prison, organise
and watch this happen, watch it happen.
We’re setting up new media organisations
and new businesses supporting people that
are setting up businesses that are not for
profit, so very direct new business models
so people can grow foods, set up their own
cafeterias, distribute food however they want
to, direct functional businesses. People working
in maintenance, people working in trade. We’re
helping them to organise, set up and promote
their businesses. Plus we are setting up an
HQ that’s the most immediately addressing
people with addiction issues, helping people
with recovery because that speaks to me particularly.
So the political class are out of touch on
the drug issue. Prohibition doesn’t work,
it demonstrably doesn’t work. What we need
is regulation of dangerous substances and
to treat addiction as the health issue it is,
not as judicial criminal issue. That just
exacerbates the problem and places a very
potent economy in our hands the hands of criminals
so I think it’s a really good example of
how our system has no proper relationship
with ordinary people’s lives.
