Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.

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.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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?

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.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.