Human beings are NOT the apex of evolution [that would be dolphins…]; and we are certainly not any more important than any other living creature on this planet. We have the right to exist and that ought to be good enough.

Our lack of respect for the earth extends to our dysfunctional society. We don’t need to “manage” or control nature; we all need to live together responsibly and manage ourselves according to nature’s laws. Planet Earth was never ours to plunder and destroy and rearrange so that we can “create a better world” or whatever.

The world was always good enough just as it is.

The only thing that can be improved is the quality of PEOPLE.

Americans are not going to fix any of these things. We are a nation which spends more time caring about what we look like in selfies than we do on important things that really matter. I rarely see someone who is humble anymore. It’s more common to see incredibly selfish people doing extremely rude things without even a second thought.

We can blame the government or politicians or whatever, but it really comes down to each of us as individuals doing the right thing. And if we fail, we collectively learn from the failure. Hopefully.

The idea that you never have to accept any responsibility for anything is unbelievably attractive to childish and ignorant people [i.e., most Americans…]

We are past the point of return. We have a crazy man in the White House, all three branches controlled by lackeys and stooges, with evil, multi-national corporations running the show. It seems that there’s a stranglehold on sanity that’ll prevent democracy’s return, at least for a very long time, but I truly, in my heart, believe that it’s over for America.

All Empires rise, and then they self-destruct at some point. I hate being cynical, but I think our chance of ever having a functional Democracy is over.

We’ve reached the END GAME.

And we teach violence against nature that is based on exploitation – with cities and rivers and National Parks named after supposedly “great men,” almost all of whom were instrumental in some kind of genocidal behavior. We teach that we are ‘entitled’ in American history. We try to order our world by dividing and isolating and separating everything we see.

But nothing exists in isolation; separate from the whole, independent from the world.

The U.S. was never very egalitarian to begin with. “All men are created equal” – so said a bunch of slave owners. Right. Well, it looks good on paper, at least. It’s a damn good thing all them slaves couldn’t read…

Unfortunately, American style neoliberalism has become the dominant economic model since WWII.

Perhaps the world would have been better off adopting some form of sustainable cooperation as the dominant economic model instead?

It’s too late for that now.

[edited repost from 2017…]