Fixing the Problems of Our World

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15. George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Ehud Olmert, Sayed Hasan Nasrallah, and the various fascist hirelings in their thrall must be forced to compromise in a way that serves humanity rather than their macho pride, corporate ambitions, fascist ideologies, and inflated theocratic egos.  If they really want to assist God on earth, enough of the petty bullshit; let’s have it!

16. All the arguments and policies of the world are in language, which bends toward blatancy and sophistry and does not reflect the hard realities of people’s existences—e.g. when someone tells scallop-draggers that there won’t be any more scallops tomorrow if they keep using computers and scanning underwater topography, just as there aren’t any cod today, they won’t hear it—or they will hear it as something else. 

We are still reptiles, governed by fear and appetite in the brainstem.  Everything loftier is a projection of those emotions onto the cortex, a fleeting puppet theater.

From deep within, we still want, we hunger greedily for everything; we huddle in danger, ruled by fear. 
A man whose social and financial security is tied up in his boat is not going to give up dragging scallops because of a word.  A logger, however short-sighted his chain-sawing of ancient redwoods, is not going to stop cutting trees because of a speech.  Does he care that he is squandering good soil and polluting salmon-bearing streams?  Lip service aside, he doesn’t give a fuck.  He just wants to get through to the evening in one piece…and the next evening and morning..and so on. 

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