We Must Learn How To Think Like

I Thought That, Given The System Of Rewards Central To Our Economic System, In Which Profit Maximization Is Valued Above All Else And Specifically Above Life, It Is Probably Just As Irresistible To The Owners Of Capital (human Or Otherwise) To Exploit Workers (and The Land): "nothing Personal," They Say As They Load Their Property Onto The Ship Bound For The Middle Passage, "but A Man's Gotta Turn A Dime."

The Process Of Schooling Does Not Give Birth To Human Beings - As Education Should But Never Will So Long As It Springs From The Collective Consciousness Of Our Culture - But Instead It Teaches Us To Value Abstract Rewards At The Expense Of Our Autonomy, Curiosity, Interior Lives, And Time.

I Wondered What It Does To Each Of Us To Spend The Majority Of Our Waking Hours Doings Things We'd Rather Not Do, Wishing We Were Outside Or Simply Elsewhere, Wishing We Were Reading, Thinking, Making Love, Fishing, Sleeping, Or Simply Having Time To Figure Out Who The Hell We Are And What The Hell We're Doing.

Casey Maddox Wrote That When Philosophy Dies, Action Begins. I Would Say In Addition That When We Stop Hoping For External Assistance, When We Stop Hoping That The Awful Situation We're In Will Somehow Resolve Itself, When We Stop Hoping The Situation Will Somehow Not Get Worse, Then We Are Finally Free - Truly Free - To Honestly Start Working To Thoroughly Resolve It. I Would Say When Hope Dies, Action Begins.

To Pretend That Civilization Can Exist Without Destroying Its Own Landbase And The Landbases And Cultures Of Others Is To Be Entirely Ignorant Of History, Biology, Thermodynamics, Morality, And Self-preservation.