Chris Hedges: Time to Get Crazy

[Chiquitita]

5. Summing up...

I'm not critiquing Hedges' essay. I read the whole thing with interest. But just to be sure, what I got out of it is: we are supposed to believe that in reality the corporate elites know the capitalist system is coming down sometime soon, along with climate change and that they are aware that a range of disasters that will decimate the human population is on the horizon. They are preparing by hoarding as much as possible and getting ready to hunker down while the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves. We can either acquiesce (and eventually perish) or fight back (and eventually probably perish too). Hedges seems to be calling on the reader to fight back, and to consider imitating the models of Crazy Horse and non-centralized, egalitarian Native American customs of wealth sharing.

Is that what you got out of it?