The answer is, of course, simple: We can run our own lives and our own communities. We’re not idiots. We need to establish a few immutable, nonnegotiable principles, mostly to respect the planet and individual freedom, then look at who is benefitting from things being the way they are now and, using no violence when we approach them and no titles when we address them, politely insist they give us our planet back. As you know, I’d prefer we just spontaneously begin cooperating on the basis that we are all manifestations of one sublime vibration, but that ain’t gonna butter no spuds on Newsnight or Fox News, so I will now reluctantly, and possibly badly, describe to you, in a little more detail, how we could own and control our means for production. My mate Adam Curtis, the documentary maker who I’ve gone on about a bit because of his amazing films and weird, clever, sweet personality, told me this: “The problem with Marxism is that it placed economics at the heart of socialism.”
