How Paradise Lost Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade) | The Chris Hedges Report

 islander wrote: 
   Dooky Hats vs Poop Sticks!

 Manbird wrote: 
A radically polarizing message that is sure to start a riot in the streets.

 hippiechick wrote: 

On J15, Light A Candle For Love

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
That sounds like a fugue state.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

That is just another day for me.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Rick Perry seems to have that down—-at least half of it.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

 Umberdog wrote: 
When you start the day as a Democrat, turn into a conservative Republican in the afternoon, a raving Tea Party candidate in the evening, a left wing guerilla in the night-time and back into a Democrat in the morning.
That's one revolution.

 hippiechick wrote: 

Yes and yes. See that was simple enough.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Worse than it was? That's a good question.

Obviously, what has been going on with our banks and governments have been going on for a long long time, we just didn't know about it. So now we do, and that is a good thing, because knowledge is power.

We have been wrecking our environment for years, and we are waking up to the need to fix it. But is it too late?

We are still fighting wars. But will people allow this to continue?

I guess it's a race to see if we become enlightened before we destroy ourselves, and take a lot of the planet with us. 

Define "revolution."

 hippiechick wrote:  
Part of the feeling could come from how "news" is dispensed.  The objective of news reporting seems to be more about alarming people than it is about informing them.  Has there ever been a time when the news - or anyone - could universally proclaim:  "Wow, everything is great!"? 
It seems as if things are worse now than they were forty-five years ago, but back then, many (over-40) people thought the country and the world were disintegrating as compared to their memories of prior times.  I'm not saying it doesn't look grim, though.

 cc_rider wrote: 
I've actually wondered  if that song by Cake, something like "Sheep Go To Heaven, Goats Go To Hell" was inspired by the unfortunate primary donors to the catgut cause?
  I dunno, I just think of weird stuff sometimes. Maybe they did too.

 bokey wrote:
  I figgered you did, but not everyone is the erudite dazzling urbanite you are.

 hippiechick wrote: 
I think it's quite scary. I saw a glimpse of this 2-1/2 years ago as people started to think out loud that the economy really could collapse. Sales of guns and survival gear went through the roof. I remember an online discussion (I'm not sure where exactly) about what will happen when states refuse to implement Obamacare. Many were concerned about which states would secede or if the Union would just break apart. IIRC my final thought was that if that happened groups of states would re-associate but that since they weren't all contiguous the map would look like a patchwork quilt. Fortunately I think the chance of this happening is small and the chance of significant violence even smaller.

 cc_rider wrote: 
Yeah, I know that.
It wasn't going to keep me from making a bad joke though.

 bokey wrote:
  it's not actually made from cats...