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INTRODUCTION

  • For about 25 of my 64 years as a writer and photographer, newspaper journalism seemed a promising career. But as my colleagues moved stealthily Rightward, I moved ever-more-openly Leftward, until eventually I was Left...outside. Permanently. Hence "Outside Agitator's Notebook," which evolved into the more closely focused "Dispatches from Dystopia." Under either name it was originally a regularly updated anthology of reports, analyses, commentaries, photographs and other anti-Capitalist testimony from the ecogenocidal dystopia that Neoliberal Capitalism -- our species' newest euphemism for resurrected Nazism -- has made of our world. But the life-threatening shock of a censorship incident (see "Probable Final Dispatches, End of Dispatches," 17 April 2020) has reduced it to far less frequent publication. Meanwhile our species' dystopian epicenter remains the post-humanitarian United States of America with its self-inflicted Moron Nation and its empire of global-conquest malevolence, the de facto Fourth Reich, the true birthdate of which will eventually be recognized – if indeed our species somehow miraculously survives the present era – as 22 November 1963. (¶)-Dispatches will nevertheless continue -- albeit on a far more relaxed schedule -- to chronicle our relentless subjugation by Capitalism as it (inevitably) reverts to its traditional might-makes-right savagery. Just as Capitalism previously transformed itself into Italian Fascism and German Nazism, Capitalism now matures into a Nazism of uniquely USian form and content. By examining the details of what is occurring, DfD shows how ours is a Dystopia characterized as much by the mindlessness of Moron Nation's Zieg-Heil-equivalent chanting of “USA! USA! USA!” as by the brutality such chanting invariably celebrates – the ecogenocidal atrocities the Capitalist Ruling Class perpetrates in the name of “profit,” “growth” and USian “Exceptionalism.” (¶)-Why “USian” rather than "American"? Because to call this exceptionally fascist empire “America” is to slander as fascists or Nazis all humanitarian-minded peoples of North and South America who valiantly and often fatally resist USiaNazi enslavement. And, yes, “humanitarian” versus “anti-humanitarian” are the only terms that adequately differentiate the two now eternally hostile subspecies into which Capitalism has finally divided Homo sapiens sapiens. On one side are those of us who cling to the so-called Golden Rule and its variants, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” the ultimate form of which is Marxism's “from each according to ability, too each according to need.” On the other side are the moral imbeciles – Nazis, fascists, Ayn Rand disciples and all the other psychological zombies that are Capitalism's unique and uniquely apocalyptic spawn. (¶)-But what then is Capitalism? Though traditionally defined as economics alone, it is in fact the quintessential patriarchal ethos, the diabolical methodology of building a global empire by conquest and genocide both obvious and clandestine, with post-conquest world governance originally patterned after the despotic management of antebellum slave plantations. Capitalism is thus the forefather of fascism and Nazism, its only possible offspring. Behind its seductive cloak of euphemisms and Big Lies (“manifest destiny,” “easy credit,” “economic freedom,” “self-made man,” “entrepreneur,” “no down payment,” “rugged individualist,” “you too can be rich,” “free will,” etc. ad nauseam), Capitalism is the stench of burning flesh and rotting corpses; the shrieks of napalmed children; the despair of families evicted into the permanent degradation, filth, deadly danger of untreated disease and constant fear of enslavement by arrest or kidnapping that defines USian homelessness; the final agonies of maliciously abandoned patients condemned to death by the deliberately genocidal costs of health care. (¶)-Ultimately Capitalism is the boundless Evil of global dictatorship by the Christian white male One Percent, a tiny, ruthless cabal of Capitalist aristocrats for whom infinite greed is ultimate virtue and for whom the snuff-film sadism of class warfare provides the ultimate entertainment. Under Capitalism's Fukushima-deadly, Ayn Rand credo of serial-killer moral imbecility – absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals, zero-tolerance oppression and bottomless poverty for all the rest of us – these obscenely wealthy despots now impose on us their increasingly overt paradigm of Nazi governance. Not that We the (formerly exempt) People should be surprised; the merciless regimen that is now ours is how the Capitalists have always tyrannized our sisters and brothers in America's First Nations, in the USian ghettos and in all the Capitalist victim realms abroad. (¶)-Moreover much of our plight is of our own making. We the People long ago surrendered to our Capitalist overlords. We submit to denial of health care that is everywhere else on this planet deemed a human right; we submit to enslavement by debt; to the outsourcing of our jobs; to bankruptcy; to foreclosure; to eviction and homelessness; to imprisonment in numbers hitherto unequaled in human history; and most of all to the biggest Big Lie of all – the suicidal delusion we somehow remain free despite the Capitalists' no-longer-deniable theft of our liberty and their snickering revocation of the few prefaces to economic democracy our now-powerless unions had once managed to win. Our confinement is ensured, not just by our cowardice but by the invisible but inescapable cage of total surveillance: the electronic barbed wire that has reduced our entire planet to a monstrous concentration camp. (¶)-Cast off as “surplus human capital” when we are deemed no longer exploitable for profit, we are then methodically exterminated. We are slaughtered as cannon-fodder in the empire's endless wars of profit and conquest; we are murdered by the bullets and truncheons of the federalized and militarized local police; we are fatally poisoned by Capitalism's malignant toxification of our environment; we are slain by denials of health care and social services that are in fact deliberate, euphemism-cloaked policies of slow-motion genocide.   (¶)-Meanwhile our overlords pornographically multiply their own wealth by knowingly destroying the planetary conditions upon which all sentient life depends. More recently – as if to demonstrate the infinite magnitude of their Evil by provoking unsurvivable thermonuclear apocalypse (and not coincidentally in fulfillment of a malevolent scheme by Adolf Hitler himself) – they have imposed on the Ukraine the anti-Russian war-mongering and anti-Jewish violence of an avowedly Nazi puppet government. And now, in the person of Donald Trump and his appointees, the USian tyrannosaur has come home to gorge on its final and terminally ironic meal, the denizens of Moron Nation itself, the people who by their prideful ignorance and hatefulness loosed this demonically insatiable monster on the entire world. (¶)-But in these times our ability to effectively resist is obstructed not only by the USian regime of inescapable surveillance, but by the dreadful undertow of Moron Nation's intellectual and psychological paralysis: the deliberate deceptions and outright ignorance fostered by the Capitalist “education” system; by Capitalism's “mainstream media” propaganda machine (which is owned by the same smirking plutocrats whose vassal politicians so gleefully oppress us); and by the physical and psychic terrorism of Capitalism's manufactured crises. (¶)-Yet resist we must. As always, art – sometimes even unwittingly – depicts our present circumstances and so foretells our future. And as it says in a breathtakingly apt, wrenchingly poignant anthem grown increasingly popular far beyond its video-game origin, “shadows fall and hope is gone; steel your heart; the dawn will come.”

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Links relevant to Introduction

Fire Survivors

  • After the Demonstration Failed, Bellingham, 1971
    These are some of the very few photographs that survived the 1983 fire that destroyed my life's work, not just most of my pictures but nearly all my writing including three books in progress and all the associated research. Some of these photos shown here escaped the flames because they were with me in my portfolio case; others were produced digitally from negatives dug out of the rubble a year later. The images of obvious print-quality were made on DuPont Varilure paper, which had the highest silver content of all commercial papers and thus produced such intense tonalities, they often seemed illuminated by their own internal light sources. But that sort of photographic quality is now forever beyond our common reach, either gone like Varilure or so prohibitively expensive it is available only to the obscenely pampered dilettantes who produce the aesthetic pabulum favored by the One Percent. Photography as I knew it is dead -- as dead as my career was after the fire and its ensuing clinical depression -- but this body of work provides a glimpse of what was lost and what might have been. All photos copyright Loren Bliss.

Sandwiches for Mind and Spirit

  • Goddess emergent (1), 1968 (blue variant c. 2009)
    In photography, a sandwich is a collage made by printing two or more negatives simultaneously. Collage is a medium that has fascinated me for as long as I can remember -- probably since I was a child experimenting with finger paints, glue and newspapers -- but I never took it seriously until, sometime in my early 20s and still thinking myself a painter-to-be, I discovered the works of Jasper Johns. Now it seems to me making sandwiches is to conventional photography what poetry is to prose: not just an intellectual exercise, but the opening of a doorway to the Mysterious Otherness I know as the Muse, from whom (sometimes in fullfilment of that McLuhanesque notion of art as prophecy) the currents of real creation invariably flow, whether swift and startling as a lightening strike or slow and soft as cottonwood seeds adrift on subtle summer air. (Collage and photographic sandwiches copyright Loren Bliss 2009-2012.)

Graffiti: a Sampler

  • Gun Graffiti
    When I returned to New York City in 1965 I was immediately impressed by the contrast between the graffiti I had encountered "out in America" -- the South and Middle West -- and what I saw in Manhattan. While the form and content of graffiti is sociologically important – possibly a semiotic indicator without peer -- I found the graffiti of Manhattan singularly appealing, the intellectual and aesthetic equivalents of a long-overdue breath of fresh air, and within a few days I had begun documenting it with 35mm and 120 film. (The opening photograph of this series was obviously made far from Manhattan, but I included it to establish an essential contrast.) Many more details about this particular body of work, which I briefly resumed when I went back to the City again in 1983, then abandoned after that year's career-terminating fire, are in my post of January 7, 2010. Yes I regard the best urban graffiti as genuine art, but too much of it, alas, is nothing more than a human variant on the mammalian practice of marking territory with spurts of urine: "I wuz here." All photos by Loren Bliss, copyright dates as noted.

Faces of the Fight

  • Health Care For All!
    Supporters of health care reform and a much smaller number of health care reform's opponents -- each faction identified by its picket-signs -- gathered for the "town hall" meeting called by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) in Lakewood on August 25, 2009. Originally set for Lakewood City Hall, the event was rescheduled and moved to Lang Stadium to accommodate an unprecedented mobilization of pro-reform people. Cops estimated the crowd at about 2500. Photos by Loren Bliss copyright 2009.

RELEVANT WEBSITES

  • Americans United for Separation of Church and State
    A vital website that is often our only source of accurate information about the terrifying effort to impose zero-tolerance Christian theocracy on the United States.
  • Best Site for Suppressed Assassination Facts
    The late Mae Brussell was our most relentless researcher into the murder of President John Kennedy and many other such outrages. Her legacy is a damning list of the USian Empire's darkest secrets.
  • Best, Most Thorough Documentation on the CIA's Destruction of the 1960s Counterculture
    Ms. Brussel outdid herself in her nobody-dares-publish-it investigative report exposing how the CIA's Operation Chaos destroyed the 1960s Counterculture. (My assumption is the Agency, with its Ivy-League analysts and their knowledge of pagan mythology, recognized the Counterculture's anti-patriarchal, resurrection-of-the-Goddess direction, understood it as a far greater threat to Capitalism than Marxism and responded with the murderous efficiency inherited from Gestapo predecessors.)
  • Communist Labor Party
    Communism as it is evolving in the United States after the murder of the American Dream and the slaying of the U.S. experiment in representative democracy.
  • Communist Labor Party's Harry Bridges Club (Facebook)
    Communism as it is evolving in Tacoma, Washington.
  • Consortium News
    Superb reporting and analysis. Founder/Editor Robert Parry exposed Reagan's Iran-Contra scheming and has been persecuted by the capitalists ever since.
  • der Spiegel
    Mainstream German newspaper that is often a valuable source of news about Western European politics.
  • Global Research
    A genuinely independent news site -- neither definitively Left nor Right -- that often covers stories suppressed by U.S. Mainstream Media, which (let us never forget), is owned by the same One Percenters who own the Democratic (sic) and Republican parties and thereby control all U.S. governance at every level.
  • Gun Owners of America
    Fanatically hard-Right (and often ChristoFascist as well), it is nevertheless the best source for information about the One Percent's efforts to forcibly disarm the U.S. 99 Percent.
  • International Marxist Archive
    All of Marxism's defining texts defiantly uploaded to the Internet by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as its final contribution to humanity's eternal struggle for economic democracy -- without which there is no democracy at all.
  • Popular Resistance
    A daily newsletter featuring essential tactical and strategic analysis plus vitally informative reports of news suppressed by the "mainstream media" propaganda machine.
  • Rewire
    Probably the most in-depth coverage of women's issues, LGBTQ issues and general human rights issues available on the U.S. Internet today, bolstered by decidedly professional reportage and editing.
  • RT
    Formerly "Russia Today," it accurately covers U.S. news the "mainstream media" propaganda machine routinely suppresses. Its notable work includes the nation's best coverage of the Occupy Movement (2011-2012), and the ongoing struggles of Black Lives Matter, Water Protectors and other such groups against the Empire's now-openly-fascist policies of homeland governance.
  • Second Amendment Foundation
    Unmistakably conservative, it is also the best source on legal action in defense of our right to keep and bear arms.
  • Socialist Worker
    An informative Marxist website in the United States, with news reporting and analysis that is usually far superior to anything fed us by capitalism's "mainstream media" propaganda machine.
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
    Best source of information on the burgeoning plague of Nazi, ChristoFascist and KuKluxKlan-type hate groups in the USian imperial homeland.
  • TASS, the Russian Wire Service
    Vital reading, especially now that the USian Empire's plans for global conquest have rekindled the so-called Cold War.
  • Theocracy Watch
    Cornell University's in-depth source on the escalating campaign to impose zero-tolerance Christian theocracy on the USian Homeland. It is flawed only by its refusal to recognize the Democratic (sic) Party's mostly clandestine collaboration with the openly theocratic Republicans -- a collaboration revealed in frightening detail by Jeff Sharlet's "The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (Harper: 2008).
  • TruthOut
    Generally reliable crowd-funded news site sometimes featuring cogent sociological analysis by Henry Giroux. Discussion thread's potential limited by Discus, which discourages posting of comments written off-site.
  • Ultra Violet
    Perhaps the most powerful racially integrated gender-equality organization in the United States.
  • World Socialist Web Site
    The day's news, typically with the most in-depth Marxist analysis available on the U.S. Internet -- this despite constant interference by the Empire's privatized, for-profit censorship apparatus.
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11 January 2011

A New Direction for a New Year in a New Age of Deepening Darkness

Burning sandwich 1st itr. (copy)
Photograph by Loren Bliss copyright 2011 (click to see entire image).

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POST-ELECTION TRAUMATIC DEPRESSION has sorely oppressed my consciousness since last November.

It is a condition profoundly intensified by Arizona's atrocities. First there was disclosure of the murders – two and counting – committed by the state's death-dealing denial of organ transplants to the poor: any Arizonan who lacks the impossibly expensive insurance and/or the ready money essential to pay for such procedures. Next there was the Tucson Massacre: law-abiding citizens gunned down for daring to exercise their First Amendment rights of public participation in the ever-more-deadly U.S. political process.

Make no mistake: the budgetary edict by which Arizona's Republican governor and legislators have already exterminated two transplant-denial victims is direct fulfillment of their party's decades of hate-mongering – merely the first wave of gleefully inflicted right-wing genocide against all of us who are elderly, disabled, unemployed or otherwise impoverished.

Meanwhile the connection between the Republicans' lynch-mob rhetoric and the Tuscon Massacre gunman remains curiously ambiguous. But his maniacally random shooting slew six humans including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal judge, felled a promisingly populist Democratic Congresswoman with the near-certain permanent disability of a 9mm bullet through her brain, then wounded 12 others. And the gunman's crimes have undeniably added a new element of terror to public participation in the paranoid politics of capitalist America, the sole beneficiary of which is – as always – the Ruling Class.

Even so, the most debilitating aspect of my post-election depression is not the (predictable) trauma spawned by the Republicans, who after all make no secret of their malevolent agenda: brazenly tyrannosauric capitalist imperialism bolstered by theocratic fascism and supported, on occasion, by goon squad/Ku Klux violence.

Instead what grieves me to near mental paralysis is how President Obama – never mind the leadership he has (necessarily) demonstrated in the wake of the Tucson Massacre – proves the extent he played us for suckers in the most calculated electoral scam in U.S. history.

Having won the White House by falsely flying the faded flag of Democratic Party humanitarianism, Barack the Betrayer continues to give us all the political finger.

Thus we should be very careful not to let our grief and outrage over the Arizona atrocities distract us from the fact that just last week Obama again outed himself as a hard-right GOPorker (or at best an ultra-conservative Big Business DemocRat), this time with his most damning appointment yet: his replacement chief of staff, JP Morgan-Chase Midwest Chairman William Daley, former commerce secretary/capitalist factotum in the BJ Clinton administration – a gloating fat-cat bankster, the very archetype of the avarice that oppresses us all.

Obama's new bag-and-fixit man is the son of the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, the unlamented despot who was the infamous capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses) of the nation's most notoriously mob-affiliated and corrupt political machine, the tyrant whose sneering mugshot was sardonically captioned “Beat the Press and Mace the Nation” by the 1968 Chicago-police-riot edition of Time magazine.

We already know William Daley holds the Wall Street aristocracy's leash on the president. But considering his heritage I have to wonder about his other functions: is this Daley now organized crime's man in the White House? Is he perhaps then also the Betrayer's ultimate protector?

Not that it matters; not that disclosing any of Daley's real functions could possibly make any difference in this land where – precisely as proven by the aftermath of the 2008 election – hope is not audacity but imbecility; where, exactly as confirmed by the electoral results last November (with never so many enslaving themselves to so few), Moron Nation reigns supreme: a bitter truth underscored by the vindictive idiocy of its atrocities.

Were I a Christian – which I most assuredly am not – I could easily believe I am trapped amongst multitudes who have sold their souls to the Devil, their post-pact masters a tiny coterie of demonic aristocrats: Satanic surrogates who now gleefully march their newly zomboid legions into a triumphant Hell on Earth.

Such is “change we can believe in.” And there is not one fucking thing we can do about it save pray that Mother Nature – the real divinity more god-powerful than all the hypothetical gods combined – will somehow be merciful.

At least now though nearly everything I was saying a year ago is being said by others – Chris Hedges, Henry Giroux, Robert Reich, sometimes even Paul Krugman – with far greater readership.

It was I who first wrote that capitalism is the deadly sin of infinite greed falsely transformed to maximum virtue – the moral imbecility of limitless selfishness elevated to ultimate goodness. It was I who first described the New Paradigm by which the United States is now governed at every level, federal, state and local: absolute power and unlimited profit for the Ruling Class; total subjugation and genocidal poverty for the rest of us.

Because others with vastly larger audiences are now saying much the same thing, there is no reason for me to repeat this dire message yet again.

Besides which, I have sadly concluded Mr. Hedges and Mr. Reich and all their like-minded colleagues are irrelevant. Our elections permanently nullified by bribery and betrayal, we are effectively disenfranchised forever. Capitalism has robbed us of the means to enforce our political will, without which the potential of liberation by disclosure and protest are delusions. Even the revelations by WikiLeaks are reduced to meaninglessness: no polity anywhere on the globe has the power – never mind the courage – to prosecute the crimes so exposed.

Just as greed and selfishness were raised to virtues, now freedom is redefined as submission to degradation – the basic human right of travel made synonymous with abject surrender to naked body searches conducted by leering sadists. Ask any prison guard: such abusive humiliation has but one purpose. It is designed to rape away our selfhood, to strip us of all human dignity, to torture us into whimpering compliance, to condition our reflexes in the cringing obedience of the concentration-camp inmate – to prepare us for a tomorrow so hellish most of us dare not contemplate it.

The shootings in Arizona not withstanding, already the aristocracy is protected as never before, sustained by a brain-police apparatus infinitely perfected beyond its Madison Avenue/Josef Goebbels/Adolf Hitler precedents and guarded by kill-hardened mercenaries armed with technological superiority utterly alien to previous human experience – a regime of conformity and surveillance and death from which there is no sanctuary anywhere on what is now truly Slave Planet Earth.

Indeed it is precisely as James Lovelock has long intimated: naught save Gaian intervention can now rescue us from our shackles – and in her gift of planetary salvation may well lie our own species' extinction.

As under the (presumably) fictional Borg, resistance is futile; Evil has triumphed, now and forever amen.

Hence I will no longer waste my time with political commentary. It is pointless; it changes nothing. So deep is the quicksand of Moron Nation, political commentary no longer offers even the potential of change.

Instead, as befits a person approaching the end of a lifetime, I will devote this space to my memoirs – anecdotes and photographs sometimes interrupted by relevant correspondence, material akin to my post here on 1 December 2010. (These letters would surely also fit in such a format, but I am not brilliant enough writer to know how to formally include them – especially without the mental clarity formerly provided by the coffee now forever denied me by heart trouble.)

The memoir has a working title of “Encounters: a Latter-Day Odyssey”; for those unfamiliar with literary conventions, “working title” means a name possibly subject to change. The first installment, “Abutments,” will appear Monday. Because subsequent parts will be available only when I deem them ready, I cannot commit to a publication schedule but, with apologies, urge readers not included in my mailing list to periodically check here for updates.

Meanwhile thank you all; perhaps – if any of our species survives the ecopolitical damnation the Ruling Class is bringing down upon us all – some of these words might survive, if only to prove that not everyone in the United States shambled like zombies into the slave pens of tyrannocapitalism.

That said, it seems appropriate to begin this new work with a suitably Homeric invocation:

Grant me O Muse the Moon-bright wisdom
That I like bards and silversmiths of old
Their lives enraptured by your drum-counted dance
Exalt once more its choreography of light and shadow
A dumbstruck witness blest with eloquence and vision.

LB/4-11 January 2011

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Melinda T

I do agree with the sentiments expressed here but also would like to point out that the left is far from innocent in the fucking up of our planet and civilization, if one could even call it civil with a straight face) - of course this comes from an old ex-maoist and Catholic convert so I make no claims to objectivity but I have thoroughly studied both ends of the spectrum and have no illusions about the integrity of political solutions and their master minds - in the end I have much more in common with sincere Pagans than with self indentified dems or repubs, marxists or neocons et al...blessings on you, keeper of the flame...xxxoooxxx

Posted by: Melinda T | 16 January 2011 at 12:49 PM

Loren Bliss

Thank you, Melinda; a compliment from a musician of your talent is like a compliment from the writer Barbara Mor -- better than all the Sigma Delta Chi awards combined.

As you may remember, I have long reasoned from deep suspicion that today's "civilization" is a self-contradicting label.

My subsequent discovery of the ultimate agnosticism of First Nations peoples -- that the various terms said by patriarchal authority to mean "Great Spirit" (Manitou, Wah'kontah etc.) in fact all literally translate as "Great Mystery" -- merely confirms my sense our species has been on a downward spiral since the sack of Knossos.

At least some fragments of the original human wisdom survive in accessible form: the above (and much more of relevance) in a long-out-of-print anthology entitled "Literature of the American Indian" (Glencoe Press, Beverly Hills: 1973); Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching," which opens with what I regard as the most profound spiritual statement ever uttered, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao"; Mor's incomparable "The Great Cosmic Mother," a peerless restoration of Europe's ancient (and now almost totally suppressed) pre-Christian traditions; and of course "The White Goddess," Robert Graves' work that includes a body of literature strongly suggesting metaphysical kinship between ancient Europe (e.g., Taliesin's "there is nothing in which I have not been") and the vision that shaped the cultures of Asia and pre-Columbian America.

As to the guilt of the Left, you and I are surely agreed, though I am admittedly more inclined to rationalize much of it as the response of peoples under attack by capitalism literally from the instant they tore down the banners of selfish tyranny and raised instead the Red Flag, its color defiantly symbolizing the blood of slain workers. But there is no question the Soviet Revolution was as much co-opted by the deadly undertow of Russian history as it was subverted by capitalist promises of material self-fulfillment, just as there is no question the Chinese Revolution has deteriorated into yet another of the imperial dynasties for which the so-called Celestial Realm is infamous. Nor is there any question the U.S. Left irreparably destroyed itself by its cowardly and lazy-minded embrace of what nearly everywhere else in the world is recognized as the core culture of the entire United States: the most relentlessly savage anti-intellectual conformity ever known on this planet.

Indeed the associated betrayals of promise compel me to accept the Catholic notion of Original Sin as -- at the very least -- an unquestionably accurate metaphor for the genetic defect that has now seemingly doomed our entire species.

Meanwhile in the context of what is so desperately needed -- a combination of democratic locally governing socialism plus spirituality based on the collective solidarity of individual encounters with the de facto divinity of Nature -- our standard political labels (and more to the point our entire political vocabulary) are reduced to gibberish. Thus we remain hopelessly imprisoned, damned to asphyxiation in the self-perpetuating miasma of Moron Nation.

Thank you again, Melinda; XXXOOOXXX back to you.

Posted by: Loren Bliss | 16 January 2011 at 03:12 PM

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