Today's quote: "The real death of America will come when everyone is alike." should be modified. The real death of the planet will come when everyone is alike.

And that's what we're doing. Everyone must be like us. Everyplace must have a Mickey D's (for a real horror show, on the main page go to the drop down menu for "Select Country". They're everywhere. Everyone needs to get a job and "contribute" to society. (Example of this today. Kris was watching the news (fucking news!), and there was a story of a homeless man who was arrested for arson. He admitted to starting the fire because he "had nowhere else to go, and wanted to go to prison." This angered Kris enough that she came and related the story to me, adding that she was pissed that "just because he can't get his shit together and have a job, he decides he wants to go to prison, where I have to pay for him with my taxes!?" [reminds me, Jupe, I still owe you a quarter] I didn't get into it with her about how wrong she was, because
a) I'm chickenshit
b) she likes to argue - about everything
c) the idea of arguing against her (or people like her) just makes me tired.)

[sigh]

We know that we're doing the wrong things. We just accept it. Because accepting it (or, more aptly, ignoring it) is easier. MUCH easier. Stephanie and I are not happy. Because we've had our eyes truly opened recently. And it's scary as fucking hell. And depressing. Our culture is, as I've said before, sick. Actually, "sick" may not be a strong enough word. I don't know that there is a strong enough word.

What would you call a society that spends billions (BILLIONS!!!) of dollars on "defense" and military every year?
What would you call a society that continues to practice deforestation, despite knowing the world-altering side effects?
What would you call a society that dumps millions of tons of toxics into the oceans?
What would you call a society that forces people to choose between prison and homelessness (or getting a job)?
What would you call a society that favors money and production over life?
What would you call a society that has the capability of destroying all life on this planet ten times over?
What would you call a society that has committed (and continues to commit) the single worst mass extinction in the planet's history? (as many as 137 species a day disappear.[source])
What would you call a society that knows all of this, and turns a deaf ear to it all?

Yeah, "sick" isn't the right word. Sick barely even touches us.