A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

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.

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?

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?

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

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

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?