Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.