Chris Hedges: The Creeping Villainy of American Politics

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1. Chris needs a new shtick

I concluded over forty years ago that our civilization was likely to collapse due to resouerce-exhaustion, over-population, and pollution. As a corollary, I deduced that people like myself were likely to be the victims of fascist mobs as conditions declined and demagogues rose to power

It was useless as motivation for the masses: everybody thought this POV was a bummer, and nobody wanted to hear it

Lesson: you can't offer people only despair and hopelessness, because that won't motivate then to do jackshizz, so it only strengthens the status quo; you have to offer a positive vision and a way forward