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Unhinged describes the US government today. Whether you are angered that Trump reversed himself on Epstein, or happy that you are getting a consolation prize in the “reveal” of Obama, Clinton, and Biden criminality – you are ruled by the unhinged.
There was no dramatic overthrow. No apocalyptic war. People simply withdrew their consent. They stopped building. They stopped participating. They walked away into smaller villages, the forest, on the land.
The West has no monopoly on wisdom. That skyscrapers and satellites do not prove superiority. That complexity isn’t the same as maturity.
Rich assholes and their corporations have refused their assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. They have usurped our election process and bribed our elected legislators to make them their own.
A vast country, rich enough to supply all her children with all possible comforts, and ensure well-being to all, is in the hands of a few, while the nameless millions are at the mercy of ruthless wealth gatherers, unscrupulous lawmakers, and corrupt politicians.
Growth, in its current industrial form, is a pathology. We built our entire civilization around it. We sacrificed rivers, forests, children’s futures, and our own sanity, to a logic that says more is always better.