Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves