The Process Of Schooling Does Not Give

Civilization Is Not And Can Never Be Sustainable.

Yes, It's Vital To Make Lifestyle Choices To Mitigate Damage Caused By Being A Member Of Industrialized Civilization, But To Assign Primary Responsibility To Oneself, And To Focus Primarily On Making Oneself Better, Is An Immense Copout, An Abrogation Of Responsibility.

It's No Wonder We Don't Defend The Land Where We Live. We Don't Live Here. We Live In Television Programs And Movies And Books And With Celebrities And In Heaven And By Rules And Laws And Abstractions Created By People Far Away And We Live Anywhere And Everywhere Except In Our Particular Bodies On This Particular Land At This Particular Moment In These Particular Circumstances.

If We Hope To Stem The Mass Destruction That Inevitably Attends Our Economic System (and To Alter The Sense Of Entitlement - The Sense Of Contempt, The Hatred - On Which It Is Based), Fundamental Historical, Social, Economic, And Technological Forces Need To Be Pondered, Understood, And Redirected. Behavior Won't Change Much Without A Fundamental Change In Consciousness. The Question Becomes: How Do We Change Consciousness?

No Matter What We Call It, Poison Is Still Poison, Death Is Still Death, And Industrial Civilization Is Still Causing The Greatest Mass Extinction In The History Of The Planet.