Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

Wikipedia is an amazing construct. It's a commons that works. I don't know how Jimmy Wales came up with it. I'm sure all of us would have said, "This is the stupidest thing we've ever heard of. That'll never work in a million years."

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.