If Your Homeland Were Invaded By Aliens

Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.

To Reverse The Effects Of Civilization Would Destroy The Dreams Of A Lot Of People. There's No Way Around It. We Can Talk All We Want About Sustainability, But There's A Sense In Which It Doesn't Matter That These People's Dreams Are Based On, Embedded In, Intertwined With, And Formed By An Inherently Destructive Economic And Social System. Their Dreams Are Still Their Dreams. What Right Do I -- Or Does Anyone Else -- Have To Destroy Them. At The Same Time, What Right Do They Have To Destroy The World?

Where Will You Drive Your Own Picket Stake? Where Will You Choose To Make Your Stand? Give Me A Threshold, A Specific Point At Which You Will Finally Stop Running, At Which You Will Finally Fight Back.

For Us To Maintain Our Way Of Living, We Must Tell Lies To Each Other And Especially To Ourselves. The Lies Are Necessary Because, Without Them, Many Deplorable Acts Would Become Impossibilities.

Within This Culture Wealth Is Measured By One's Ability To Consume And Destroy.