Calling or writing isn't enough. They know what we think.

[davidthegnome]

145. No one is telling you to be quiet.

On the contrary, we need to speak out - and I try to do it when I can. I just don't think it's going to have much effect. Our civilization IS headed for collapse, this isn't simply my pessimism - consider the ice caps in the arctic, melting at an alarming rate. Consider the sink holes opening up, the earth quakes, the increasingly greater hurricanes. It's not just our political atmosphere or our social problems (though those play a big role) it's simply that we've destroyed - and are continuing to destroy our environment. Eventually, there is a price to pay for such things.

The truth IS vital, unfortunately, too many people don't recognize it when they hear it. We live in a Nation where a large number of our elected officials do not believe in proven science, from evolution to climate change. These nitwits believe in money magically "trickling down" from the rich, so of course they don't believe in science.

Don't get me wrong, I may be a pessimist, but I still want to change things. I WANT to turn things around, and I do what I can (like supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012) to make a difference. I just feel defeated, because I'm broke and unemployed, because I'm in school, borrowing thousands of dollars I can't pay back any time soon, if ever. Because not only am I about to lose my apartment, but they're shutting off the electricity on Monday - and I've already borrowed too much from family.

There are reasons I'm pessimistic, chances are I won't be posting here in another few days, because I'll have no way to do it. Corporate profits are at an all time high... the economy is turning around, so everyone keeps telling me... the problem is, the economy is turning around in such a way that that the rich are getting richer than ever before and the poor and working class are stagnant, or worse off than before.

I wish I could be more optimistic. I wish I had reason to be. Everywhere I look though, I see lies, greed, destruction and cruelty. Everywhere I look I see people who apathetically go about their daily lives and have just stopped caring about the big picture. I consider my pessimism to have a strong element of realism attached to it. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps I'm deluded. Maybe my own issues have painted a darker world than the reality. I hope that's the case.

I hate my defeatist attitude, but no one has given me a reason to change it.