“I don’t want to talk about me, of course, but it seems as though far too much attention has been lavished on you lately—that your greed and vanities and quest for self-fulfillment have been catered to far too much. You just want and want and want. You believe in yourself excessively. You don’t believe in Nature anymore. It’s too isolated from you. You’ve abstracted it. It’s so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life’s highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.”
Joy Williams
more infosource: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals (New York: Vintage, 2002), 3.
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category: consumerism, environment, greed, nature
medium: nonfiction
“The end of an Empire is messy at best
And this Empire is ending
Like all the rest”
Randy Newman
more infosource: “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Harps and Angels (Nonesuch, August, 2008).
category: alpha, change, civilization, empire, government, greed, history, power
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