The Global Industrial Economy Is The Engine

Have You Ever Felt Love? Did You Need Scientific Proof Of This? How Would You Have Definitively And Scientifically Proved Your Love Existed? If You Could Not Prove It, Would That Mean Your Love Didn't Exist? What Would You Trust: Your Own Feelings, Or Science?

To Be Clear, Civilization Is Not The Same As Society. Civilization Is A Specific, Hierarchical Organization Based On 'power Over.' Dismantling Civilization, Taking Down That Power Structure, Does Not Mean The End Of All Social Order. It Should Ultimately Mean More Justice, More Local Control, More Democracy, And More Human Rights, Not Less.

Hope Is A Longing For A Future Condition Over Which You Have No Agency; It Means You Are Essentially Powerless.

There Is Always Money To Kill People. There Is Never Enough Money For Life Affirming Ends.

The Pretense That Humans Are Superior To Nonhumans Is Entirely Unsupportable. I Have Seen No Compelling Evidence That Humans Are Particularly More "intelligent" Than Any Other Creature. I Have Had Long And Fruitful Relationshis With Many Nonhuman Animals, Both Domesticated And Wild, And Have Reveled In The Bouquet Of Radically Different Intelligences - Different Forms, Not Different "quantities" That They Have Introduced To Me, Each In His Or Her Own Time, In His Or Her Own Way.