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The pattern, from then to now, remains the same. Deflect attention away from the causes and solutions of the major crisis facing society by creating fear and uncertainty, blaming an “other,” and proposing and implementing harsh remedies… your satisfaction, comes not from an improvement in your quality of life, but by making others lives worse.

Despite an explosion of technology over the last 50 years, and a huge increase in worker productivity, the average American worker today is making less each week than he or she did in 1973, after adjusting for inflation.

Oligarchy impacts not only our economic and political life, but our culture as well.

Dang. We are jumping right in, aren’t we?? And my boy Dorian is in danger AGAIN?! SJM give the kid a freakin’ break! 😳

“We keep falling into the same ditches… I mean, we learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another... and when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are.”

“These days, projecting blame is almost an art form.”

“There was a mindless rigidity about some Christian Americans— about the ones who did the most harm. They were so certain that they were right that, like medieval inquisitors, they would kill you, even tortured, to save your soul.”

“The things that we had created and loved had already been destroyed. This time, the fires only cleansed.”

“Human decency is a sin here.”

“We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what’s happened to us can happen to them. They don’t like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town. They call us names and wish somebody would do something to make us disappear. And now somebody is doing just that!”

Indentured to the Church of Christian America?!? 😳 We’re screwed.

“They just didn’t know how to use the powerful weapons they possessed.”