Uturn: Only village idiots

...get their drivers license at the age of 41 and then spend the first month driving 4000 miles. If you can find a map, this is what we drove : Anchorage to Glenallen to Tok to Chicken to Dawson to Eagle Plains to Inuvik (To Tuktoyaktuk by plane), then back to Dawson, Chicken and Tok, then north to Delta Junction, south to Paxson, west to Denali, then south to Seward on the Kenai peninsula and finally back to Anchorage. Problem is, now we've got road fever and it wouldn't take much convincing to do it again. We won't because Manny needs gravity and to learn how to walk (we don't want to turn him into an RV potato - or like his dad, a (global) village idiot.)

Thought

People say we are destroying the environment. I beg to differ: I think we're destroying ourselves, and taking most of the environment with us. Example: Global warming is not the issue. Neither is 'biodiversity loss'. It's how we organize ourselves as a species that's the problem. Is our social reality sustainable? No, and here's why: smoke from a machine, 'development' and habitat loss, these are more the symptoms, the physical manifestations (or Entropy) of a deeper societal process which is to increase productivity and profit, i.e., to increase the concentration of power and energy in the hands of a few individuals - at everyone else's expense. Agree to change that imbalance of power, to modify the current power system and install a true democracy where power is shifted from the wallet back to the ballot, to be shared by all, and you will see a lot less smoke. Unknowingly perhaps, you will be agreeing to a sustainable world made of ecological, human societies - without anthropogenic climate change, without species loss. Without war? Onward thru the BS -- as in belief system.

Uturn

Only village idiots

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David Rosane