I'm more than certain I'm not the only one saying this, but...
How upsetting -- to say the least -- that I fulfilled my plan to vote yesterday and feel like I still had no say in anything.
I don't begrudge Republicans their Republicanism. I begrudge that it allows for them to believe that they only will prosper when someone else is doing the work.
I'm more than certain I'm not the only one saying this, but...
How upsetting -- to say the least -- that I fulfilled my plan to vote yesterday and feel like I still had no say in anything.
I don't begrudge Republicans their Republicanism. I begrudge that it allows for them to believe that they only will prosper when someone else is doing the work.
I wonder how many wealthy Republicans actually believe that money will insulate their lungs from carbon emissions crowding out the oxygen in the atmosphere until we get a cyanide-level chemical suffocation -- all thanks to a supposedly cheap way to fuel cars.
When the Blackout of 2003 happened, there was all this talk about how the nation's entire electrical system (coughs Tesla was robbed and even Edison later admitted it! coughs) needed overhaul and reconstruction, but more than ten years later, that revision of our power infrastructure is nowhere to be found.
I'm curious, really, why wanton destruction of natural habitats like the Amazonian rainforest -- much less the virgin sections -- in favor of apparently illegal logging and how it can even lead to the death of an American expatriate nun who was a Brazilian citizen and dedicated her life, literally, to the revitalization of the Amazon in the face of deforestation and so many other more profane threats.
That's bravery and even this bravery didn't save Sister Dorothy Stang's life, but her work is still being done by those who were around her before she died.
Who will try to salvage the atmosphere and infrastructure at large when the current generations are all gone and no one is left who can tell them what a fresh breath of air felt like?
How often is money going to supersede our actual best interests? People who barter are considered cheap. People who commit to living a standard independent of wealth are considered crazy.
How much of the resources in the world do we have to deplete before we think, "Wow, maybe bartering and a lower monetary standard of living will help, not hurt!"
Maybe when we have to recreate simple medications with organic materials because their chemical counterparts will have finally been outlawed after so many [more] die.
Maybe once the country turns into a reenactment of David Wong and John Cheese's 'John Dies At the End'.
Maybe it really will be 'arachnacide' when superspecies created from genetic aberations are so prevalent in what few species remain that Goliath bird-eating spiders might even colonize everything.
No, not that. That sort of chemical response is likely crazy, right?
Oh, right -- genetic abberation is already happening in Iraq and Afghanistan due to our weaponry poisoning the foods and water pregnant women are consuming, turning babies quite literally into eight-limbed creatures.
But I'm drastically overstating a minor problem and using fiction to do so...right?