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?

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

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

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

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?