I am a Vegan.
I had to get into graduate school to consume such tomes as LaFeber's The American Age, and Hofstadter's Paranoid Style in American Politics. I am aware of how much propaganda we're fed, and how public education has been subverted to stunt our critical thinking skills and turn us into compliant, politically castrated consumers of worthless crap.
The uber wealthy corporate megalomaniacs are bent on absolute hegemony, and nothing short of global revolution will stop them.
I used to despair over the high likelihood that we cannot awaken the Sheeple. I toyed with misanthropy. I've been an activist throughout, up until I saw what the corporates' militarized police did to OWS.
Now, I have relocated to the extremely rural place where I spent my formative years, and I'm immersed in various creative activities that enrich and sustain me. I have an organic garden, and am proximal to a river and several creeks. I consider myself an observer, now, and I suspect I'm witnessing our species' extinction events.
Our species' hedonism is likely our death knell. All those plastic trinkets choking our oceans and landfills, all those nifty pesticides and herbicides poisoning our groundwater, and all those metric tons of oil/coal/nuclear wastes...
I only grieve for our littlies and our once pristine ecosystem. The rest of us have made this bed, and soon we'll die in it.
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