If We Are Serious About Transforming Our Country...

[raouldukelives]

45. K&R It ain't just the 1% who are owners are corporations.

That obscenely profit every time the will of the people is rebuffed. When science is ignored. When the truth is buried.

It has been a joint effort with some big winners, lots of losers and in the end, many players. None of which can count themselves as any form of an instrument for grassroots change unless it is for the betterment of their own financial bottom line.

I'm afraid it has gone too far now. The lies and deceit. The environmental exploitation. The hate and racism. The wars and coups. The child labor and outright bondage.

It is going to be harder than one can imagine. The combined will of Wall St shareholders has ignored that they are destroying the very ecosystems we rely on to feed and clothe us when all else has gone to hell.

I used to always hold a little flame of optimism in the back of the mind. That once we were gone, things would revert back to the way they were before we walked upright. That the flora and fauna of the world would overrun the ruins of our failed society. Sadly, it is our failed society that is overrunning them, forever.

We have to figure out a way to retain a small slice of our natural world as it exists today while at the same time talking care of each other. We cannot grow our way out of this mess. It is the prior "growth" out of messes that has brought us to this particular ruin. I wish I knew the answer. I am only certain more of the same will guarantee everything less of a chance at survival.