Excerpt from Elena's "Third Manifesto" for the No Impact Movement

          Is the revolution imminent or is it too late?
           We have no wars in our backyards, we do no harm. Our routines mean our lives are safe and shrouded in the Great Lie; all is well and will be forever. We have unlimited resources, we are too small to harm the planet, we will live forever. Waking up to the TRUTH that we are on the verge of collapse, on the edge of a Fallen Empire, that the recession will only recede further like the tide gathering into a tsunami wave, to come crashing back to shore leaving only destruction in its wake. We do not have to run from the shore, closer to the center; we do not need to gather our possessions and put them into a rocket-ship and shoot ourselves into space to escape. No, we can gather our families and burrow underground and build an existence in harmony with our destinies.          

          You are governed by corporations, you work for something that doesn’t work for you. Make your life into a work of art, not a sales pitch, not a commodity. Collect relationships, not possessions. Be a liability to your own assets.

          The spoils of war are its victims, speaking louder and clearer than ever, falling on deaf ears. They look exactly like you and me. The passengers of malfunctioning Toyotas, the engineers who burned to death during the explosion of the oil rig, the ecosystem irreparably fucked: a large fraction of the World is literally drowning in OIL and not enough voices of reason or protest are breaking through the great filter of the men behind the curtain, wielding duvetyn. Their crimes will not be exposed enough to be brought to light, the evil will not serve justice. The CEOs are criminals, killers, warlords, mafia bosses, cartel-runners. Freedom is only free if you are a richwhitemale and even then your freedom is subsidized. As this colossal wave of crime grows in size and strength, so do statistics and percentages of unemployment, lowered wages, and inflation, but they tell us to Trust Them. Everything will be back the way it was soon enough.
          Capitalism took blueprints from fascism and camouflaged the weapons so they looked like gifts, disguised the battle plan as “Economics”. But I’m telling you, really, this epidemic is very real & terrifying but you need not be afraid; the world will not crumble into chaos when the systems’ collapse becomes apparent to the public (because it IS happening we just choose not to be aware of it yet) we will not be overrun with violence and anarchy unless our fear drives us to destroy all that we have left over, what little will survive the flood.