Does anyone else feel helpless right now?

[infidel dog]

17. No, you're not the only one.

I'll tell you, dog to wolf, that things are pretty goddamn bad in this republic and our entire suffering planet. Capitalism is making existence miserable or impossible for all life on Earth. Here in the States we are degenerating into society of (mostly) willing serfs ruled by a plutocratic corporate elite. Humanity in general seems to be comprised of greedy, willfully ignorant scum who will destroy the only world they can possibly inhabit for a few pieces of Monopoly money. I'm very pessimistic in the short term, WW. But I think we can cautiously hope in the future. I like to imagine a society a few centuries or millennia from today that will look upon our global Society of Profit and Ignorance with the same distaste most sensible people today feel for the Assyrian Empire or Stalin's regime. But I'm afraid that kind of change will only come with evolutionary as well as revolutionary progress. Socialism will come as humanity realizes our survival is impossible without giving up our mindless, screaming chimpanzee greed and the all-powerful trinity of Me, Myself and I. A tall order. Will it happen tomorrow or next year? Not a chance in hell. This doesn't let us off the hook however, Mr. Wolf. If you get truly discouraged, as I often do, remember how much real progress has been made in the past 150 years or so and the people who worked, sometimes without much hope at all, to bring it about. It may be, in a regressive age such as this, that our job is to simply hang on to what is Good in this nightmare situation, and do everything we can to keep the Bad and Ugly from outlawing/destroying/forgetting it. I fear things in the short run may get very bad indeed, WW. The times are very grim and I wish with all my heart I lived in different ones. But as Gandalf the Grey tells us, so do all who live to see such times. Our job is to keep up the fight, WW. In our seemingly insignificant individual ways or in Union with others or as a movement that knocks crowns from the heads of monarchs, and sometimes takes those heads clean off! Keep the faith, WW. A word of encouragement from an old Wobblie...