They are only truly alive if they live with anguish..

[terry]

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It's time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond   Updated at 8:49 PM
   
from YES! Magazine:



"In the Face of This Truth"
It's time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond.

by Robert Jensen


We live in the midst of multiple crises­—economic and political, cultural and ecological—posing a significant threat to human existence at the level we have become accustomed to. There’s no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without emotional reactions, no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some dread and distress.

Those emotions come from recognizing that we humans with our big brains have disrupted the balance of the living world in disastrous ways that may be causing irreversible ecological destruction, and that drastically different ways of living are not only necessary but inevitable, with no guarantee of a smooth transition.

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But to many of us, these insights simply seem honest. To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse. What to do when such honesty is unwelcome? ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/a-resilient-community...

No wonder they are so miserable.  This is what can happen when you think there is no power other than human power.  No faith in anything. 
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[JohnnyReb]

Float like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
Oh how we love
Being drama queens

So it don't rhyme. Who do you think I am? A Calpiggy or something?

[true_blood]

Woe is me. And yet, the DUmmies praise the imposter and his socialists ways. Don't they see that the imposter and his socialists policies are the reason they are living in anger?! Oh, the irony.