From the book Deep Green Resistance:

I am reading the book Deep Green Resistance and this paragraph hit me hard. It really is so true that this is where we are heading as a “civilization”.  

Read it and frankly, read the book.

 

It is primarily an urban phenomenon. Civilizations emerge from and promote the growth of cities. Cities offer a pool of workers who, crowded together and severed from land, must labor to survive. Urban areas are densely surveilled and policed. Urban areas are epicentres of strife when civilizations fall; as Lewis Mumford wrote, "Each historic civilization ... begins with a living urban core, the polis, and ends in a common graveyard of dust and bones, a Necropolis, or city of the dead: fire-scorched ruins, shattered buildings, empty workshops, heaps of meaningless refuse, the population massacred or driven into slavery."

 

Democracy in the US is Over!

“Al Gore told The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, “The influence of special interests is now at an extremely unhealthy level. It’s at a point,” he said, “where it’s virtually impossible for participants in the current political system to enact any significant change without first seeking and gaining permission from the largest commercial interests who are most affected by the proposed change.”
― Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Those "special interests" have bought and paid for a "president" that will do as they demand. Democracy in the US is over folks! We MUST not let that happen in Canada. #truenorthstrongandfree #eattherich

 

 

 

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | The Guardian

A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | The Guardian

Something is busted

I look at the world I've made and continue to make. The ideas I find inspiring and the life I wound up leading are nowhere close....

 

I lament that gap and yearn for some deeper connection.... something that will let me feel more alive  yet I don’t do anything about it. 

 

Instead I hustle every day to further a system I know is fundamentally broken. 

 

......What the hell has happened to me?