Expanding Markets & Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a Bag of Doritos for Jesus...

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"Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he's not to blame." -- Bob Dylan

'It has been reported that George W. Bush is counting on the judgment of history to redeem the perception that he has been at the helm of a failed presidency. This notion is as muttering-at-the-wallpaper crazy as had Jeffery Dahmer, before his murder, been expecting gourmet chefs to someday champion his culinary choices. In the present day United States, our insulated leaders (who merely reflect the insularity of the daily lives of the nation's people) have shunned reality to such a degree, one would think that they spend their time writing wishful letters to Santa Claus instead of creating policy and law.

There's a well-known witticism from the 1980s about Ronald Reagan that played off a ubiquitous television commercial of the time that went, "Ronald Reagan is not the president: He just plays one on TV." A similar trope can be said of the present day United States. We're no longer an empire: We just resemble one on TV.

How did it come to be that our ability to apprehend reality is in such short supply, at a time when the consequences of such dangerous folly will prove so tragic and lasting?'

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/Rockstroh19.htm