If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.