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RobertEarl

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23. You just don't get it, do you?

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #22)

Tue May 28, 2013, 07:27 PM

May 2013

People have been tuned out for decades. People have not been receptive to any message that doesn't says go shopping. Take your pills.

Now the ecological crises (you may need to look that up to grok it) are here. It is too late to keep doing what we have been doing, which has been being nice. Nice has not cut it. Either America begins a 180 degree turn, or we will suffer greatly.

It's the ecology that is on the verge of going over the cliff. All the nice gentle scientists agree. And hardly anyone heard them.

Talk of the apocalypse is all there is left for any meaningful message.

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Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal [View all] marmar May 2013 OP

"Anxiety is rational and anguish is healthy" marions ghost May 2013 #1

My 23 year old daughter was telling me the exact same thing last night. Kath1 May 2013 #2

Kudos to your daughter and her friends........ socialist_n_TN May 2013 #3

Thanks! Kath1 May 2013 #4

"Let's hope they all make a difference"..... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #5

I took my then 14 year old daughter to the March For Women's Lives in 2004. Kath1 May 2013 #13

Interesting Trotsky reference. calimary May 2013 #28

I'm just a couple of years older than your daughter and Lunacee_2013 May 2013 #16

I think a lot of young people are really questioning capitalism these days. Kath1 May 2013 #17

Yeah, I've seen older ppl Lunacee_2013 May 2013 #18

Folks it's not hyperbole to say socialism or barbarism..... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #26

Welcome to DU, Lunacee_2013! calimary May 2013 #29

But, it's so much more pleasant and far easier to live in a fantasy world. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #6

Not necessarily. Sometimes, fantasies are far scarier than reality. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #12

Pills? They got pills for this? RobertEarl May 2013 #7

Yeah, they have pills for the Second Law of Thermodynamics now? GliderGuider May 2013 #15

The reference was to this line in the OP RobertEarl May 2013 #19

Yeah, bored. That would be it. GliderGuider May 2013 #21

Thanks for a great article felix_numinous May 2013 #8

K&R Eventually people with a strong streak of liberalism find they have no other choice. nt raouldukelives May 2013 #9

On the other hand, 50 years from now... bhikkhu May 2013 #10

There is a small amount of truth here, but otherwise..... AverageJoe90 May 2013 #11

The planet is smoking RobertEarl May 2013 #20

I am, but this talk of apocalypse does us no good. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #22

You just don't get it, do you? RobertEarl May 2013 #23

"All the nice gentle scientists agree." Really? AverageJoe90 May 2013 #24

Dude RobertEarl May 2013 #25

Nobody denies that there's a crisis, TBH. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #27

Not bad, as far as it goes. GliderGuider May 2013 #14