The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.
Chris HedgesBecoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
Chris HedgesIt's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beingsโฆ And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from the creating, essentially, a corporate oligarchic state.
Chris Hedges