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?

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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.

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.

Love does not imply pacifism.