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Category: Cage

The Cage, like the Matrix, ensnares and enslaves us. We voluntarily assist in building our own trap, borrowing money to make banks richer, plugging ourselves into a system that feeds off our energy and activity to enrich its owners. The Cage started life as a radio show, exposing the workings of the cage by turning the paradigm on its head, locking the powerful into “The Cage” until they answer the question …

  • Islamic scholars reject Saudi extremism

    Islamic scholars reject Saudi extremism

    Saudi execution
    A public execution in “chop chop” square

    The final week of 2016 is an apt time to reflect on the role of religion. Fundamentalists fan the flames of religious hate from Aleppo to Ipswich. Borders snap shut, refugees languish in ghettos and First Nations people from West Papua and Western Australia to just West of the Mississippi at Standing Rock are tortured to death by police upholding Christian values.

    In Chop Chop Square each and every Friday the Saudi family execute and flog dissenters to uphold the untenable claim that their Jewish forebears are direct descendants of Mohammed. Yet we pray in Parliament and swear on the bible in court. We give tax free dollars to criminal institutions so they might rape our children and force battered women to reconcile with their perpetrators in those self-same Christian values.

    Our elected representatives banish reason in the name of faith, deny science and belittle grace. Nature red in tooth and claw, the market rules the human race, a race of lemmings herded by armies bearing icons and brands. Religion joined by commerce both harnessed by a State that no longer even pretends to represent us but simply take.

    Religion justifies that right to take, to exploit, to dominate. We wipe out life to live. We reduce the biosphere to microscopic animals and machines, industrial harming of the few living things we eat, the planet a machine to feed the megacity a few remnants of nature a Disneyland for the mega rich.

    But it need not be so.

    All life takes, consumes, organizes, builds. Else there would be entropy. That is the law of thermodynamics. Each ant nest a treasury of stolen organic matter dragged home by neutered workers. Bee hives the same except they fly by with their baskets of pollen, sucked nectar. How ants must wail and nash their nippers as the bees buzz past.

    The gift of consciousness is wasted on post hoc rationalization, justifying our greed, our fear and anger. We must harness it to create wondrous beauty, we must apprehend the Universe with awe, the Earth with respect, each other with kindness. We must stop racing to the cliff and learn to look after each other, one by one and then in communities and then we can begin again.

    Merry Christmas, from the Cross, in the Cage on the Zeds. My name is Geoff Ebbs.

  • The Summer that will not end in our life times

    The Summer that will not end in our life times

    Endless Summer
    The Summer that will not end in our lifetimes

    You are in the Cage unscripted. Australia is on holiday. The Summer that Will Not End in our lifetimes has begun. It is hot. It is very hot. And the Endless Summer has just begun.

    As we huddle in the air conditioning, or wallow in the kid’s wading pool draping wet towels over ourselves to survive the heat we also come to terms with the passing of the social democratic state. The social safety net built with the blood of the unionists, the suffragettes and environmentalists is being dismantled before our eyes.

    While we will report and comment on its demise, The focus of The Cage is not to lament its passing but to find ways to build a new people power movement a movement built on community, a movement that operates independently to undermine the controls placed on us in the Cage, a movement that loosens those restrictions and builds a robust, hopeful, loving society that will outlast the death throes of capitalism.

    We are here to agitate, educate and organize. We are here to build the post-apocalyptic society into which we bring the new-borns, the to-be-borns and each other. Not a cheery vision perhaps, but at real one, one of courage, one of robust abundance, one based on love, solidarity and the power within. We uncompromisingly refuse to enslave ourselves for the masters of the Cage, even as we use the infrastructure of the Cage to survive.

    This project is not secret. There are few secrets in this era of total surveillance. Every phone call you make, every text message you send, every social media post you make is collected, collated and analysed. Our task is not to overthrow the emerging network of networks in which we are simply nodes, it is to engage, evolve and redesign it for a better future.