View Through Barbed-wire, Oregon landscape . . .
On the road in the American Northwest.
View Through Barbed-wire, Oregon landscape . . .
On the road in the American Northwest.
THE ENERGY OF CORRUPTION
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
"Clean coal" is like the idea of a healthy, 'low-tar' cigarette;
"Safe nuclear" is like a time-bomb with but a slightly
longer fuse.
O vested interest, clouding the future with the smoke of
deliberately deceptive false promises. I say to you, when
the dust settles on the present dim era of fire and hydro-
carbons and it is dug out by future archeologists, the central
ethical question asked will be not why the EXXON's of the
world lied with such dogged tenacity—that is, after all, only
human—but rather why the rest of us, privileged as we are
to live under the hard-won protections of freedom of thought
and speech, believed their cheap propaganda, and as servile
citizens of the congregation of the faithful followed their lead
straight to the inner circles of Hell.
SIGNS OF EMPIRE
(I)
The second surest sign of the self-corrupting, decadent,
one-sided power of Empire, is when children grow up
learning no other culture, no other language, than their
own. The first, is when teachers of the young know this
to be true, and couldn't give a damn.
(II)
With the perversion of the sheer brilliance and great
promise of the new information technology into the dark
and sinister world of systems of surveillance, at a stroke,
the meaning of the word, web, flips from "connected"
into "gotcha!"
Broken Bridge Camp,
Eagle Cap Wilderness,
Oregon, X.29.2008
