Wednesday, March 30, 2011

the USA as anti-paradise

anti-paradise?
Don't you mean consumerist, militarist hell?

My neighbor bristles when I speak this way. After all, he's no fan of war and he wants to spend more time with his family. He feels forced to work so much, and, then he buys things for his kids or himself to make up for the suffering he's endured at work, to apologize to his kids that he can't spend more time with them....

Each of us has potentialities unrealized within existing institutions and structures....
but it is the actual which kills us, degrades us, and beats us down until the potentialities can only be grasped as part of our sorrow.


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