coug-
He's trying to get our country back. :).
it ain't comin' back... it's gone and... it's just as well
because it wasn't sustainable anyway. too much power and
wealth was already grabbed by the greedy. that's how the game
of monopoly works.
someone posted a link to a website that asks a few questions
about your worldview and current political/social issues...
then it points you to the candidate in the current field that
most closely matches your views and concerns.
i tried it.
dennis kucinich was my closest match followed by mike gravel
then bill richardson.
as usual, nobody who sees the world like me is ever going
to be elected POTUS. i might as well declare myself a
candidate and vote for ME. it would be just as useful as
wasting a vote on a unelectable candidate who thinks like me.
usually i compromise (like so many other voters) and try to
vote for the lesser of evils... then hope to make the best of it.
at our advanced age (or stage), even if we've only half-assed
paid attention in class, it's obvious that most of what
humanity and governments are doing right now is not sustainable...
and they have NO PLANS for altering course because they can't
bear to give up their "stuff".
1) the human population has passed the size that the planet can
support... and we're not doing a damn thing to curb it.
2) fossil fuels are overused, polluting our air, soon to be
depleted... and we're not doing a damn thing to transition to
something better.
3) every country on the planet is dependent on every other country
for its own socio-economic and judicial wellbeing... and
we're not doing a damn thing to work together or develop a
mutual governing body to set the rules on the playing field.
(the United Nations is impotent and under fear-based attack
from those who fear loss of "stuff" to the third world countries.)
bill clinton said in his first inaugural address, "there is nothing
wrong with america than cannot be solved by what is right with
america." he was dead ass wrong. he misoverestimated the level
of consciousness of americans (or perhaps he thought he could raise it).
a battle cry for today might be, "there is nothing wrong with
the world than cannot be solved by what is right with humanity."
and while it's true that we still have the capacity and the tools
for the solution available to us now... it ain't gonna happen!
...unless all the present landlords, wealth barons and
power holders drop dead tomorrow... and at the same time all
us earthlings network together to "wiki us" in a collaborative,
networked, educational problem solving project toward a sustainable
and planet-friendly size of species.
"super-size me" is a fun statement for underdogs and it
makes a good, flashy commercial but it's the road to perdition.
the fight is over (for me). over half the lemmings have already
jumped over the cliff of no return. i'm not looking for a naive,
undermanned cause or political candidate to support...
it's too late for that... (at least for me).
all that remains of value in my life is... all that ever really
had value in the first place...
1) an appreciation of the sunset on overconsumption
2) a fair amount of empathy and compassion for the suffering
3) a creative ability to express wonder, love and humor
4) a dedication to the value of acts of kindness to other living beings... and...
5) a soft touch of my brush on the canvas
-elpolvo
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