Thursday, June 17, 2021

 Who is us?

(A gentle reminder:  my guiding theme is Pogo's famous dictum, "We have met the enemy, and he is us.")

How is us our own enemy?  Us pollutes our own drinking water, our irrigating water, our playing-in water.  Us pollutes the air we breathe.  Us pollutes the soil we grow food in.  Us builds perfectly good dwellings and line them with poisons, poisons that kill, and poisons that slowly undermine our physical and mental health.  Us knows we need job, jobs, and more jobs, then us don't create them, or us creates them and pays chicken-feed for people who do real work.  Us makes drinks that make us feel wonderful, and then us drinks them till they stupify and kill us.  Us assert and affirm that our children need education, and then us provides our children with a substitute for education that teaches them no-history and not-quite-science and factless civics and pretty sociology.  Us keeps on stepping on the rake no matter how many times it hits us in the head.  Us keeps digging holes to order without noticing how much they look like graves.


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