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Jazzme's avatar

the death star must be destroyed. but how? by whom? most americans have been zombified by the propaganda machine. If we protest we're called terrorists and end up in jail or homeless/penniless. Folks of conscience should probably leave and find a non war citystate to spend their lives in. Any suggstions?

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

"It degrades the collective soul of our species."

Granted. But then the question becomes. What the hell defines that "collective soul". Is it the image and likeness of some cloud being who's therefore a faulty, corrupt, and viciously homicidal excuse for a deity?

Is it the fake piety one often observes in murmurers of prayers at religious festivals as their actions in the world support the furtherance of the economic inequality that cements homelessness as an ongoing fact of societal life?

Is it the art that even a sick society can generate that speaks to a fire of creative spirit that continues to burn even as the destructive forces seek to extinguish it?

Is it the tacit wisdom of the Natural World that silently observes human madness without commentary -- or perhaps which is actually commenting in languages we do not understand?

Help me out here. I'm fucking sick to vomitus of my species and its soul has become dimmer and dimmer so that it is now almost opaque to me. I am bereft of understanding wtf its true substance really is.

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