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

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

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

To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down that power structure, does not mean the end of all social order. It should ultimately mean more justice, more local control, more democracy, and more human rights, not less.

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?

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

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