Plenty of rage talk today comrades and I am going to jump right into all of it, but before that, I do have to share this, I am lacking the right words here, “video”, that made the rounds the other day which is the perfect encapsulation of everything that is utterly, disastrously, morally and ethically wrong, bankrupt and tone deaf with what we call “culture” in the Global North West. I dare you to watch this through to the end. I managed about a minute into it before I was ready to log on to the dark web.
“A video of a white woman's experience at a "conscious" community in Guatemala has sparked backlash on social media with users accusing white Americans of "colonizing" and "gentrifying a third-world country and exploiting its inhabitants
The community describes itself as a "consciously evolving ecovillage and empowerment center in Lake Atitlan, co-creating a healthy world of abundance in symbiosis with Mother Earth." According to its website, it is also running fundraising campaigns to acquire additional land around the lake to accommodate more members.
The videos instantly went viral on Twitter, garnering more than 5 million views and racked up thousands of comments with users criticizing Rusk and white people in general for exploiting and gentrifyingGuatemala while its indigenous inhabitants are fleeing by the numbers due to poverty.
"A bunch of rich (white majority) people going to a foreign place and exploiting people because the USD is much much stronger than the local currency. So they live off taking photos of themselves and exploiting people. They also tend to buy up property that locals no longer can. This is ridiculous," wrote one user.
This goes on. Whilst I am trying to explore more constructive, forward thinking ideas on here occasionally I do have to call this bullshit out for what it is, modern day ponzi scheme imperialism with a slide of tech-fascism, the Beach really was a warning and something that some crazed motherfuckers could have left buried in their backass utopian vision of ripping people off. We have a lot of work to do comrades, and that includes stopping this sort of bullshit at the root.
There is going to be a little more focus on Riots and the UK again today but to be sure, the conversations I am sharing here are universal, as well as the response by our shared repressive capitalist shell-companies called democracies. No matter where, riots work.
Speaking of the Poll Tax Riots, in case anyone forgot London in 1990 and what wasn’t passed as a law after these damn riots…
In other news, talking points and hot shots from across the pond, where nothing has fundamentally changed…