We live in denial because it’s easier than facing our reality — for now. — There’s a brick wall around my high school. It wasn’t there in the 90s, but school shootings weren’t as prevalent then. I wonder if anyone realizes walls keep people in and out, and they won’t protect us from a broken society because we are the cracks within the foundation, but…

What if deficits and taxes are used to hold us hostage and there is an economic model capable of resolving all our issues? — The economic theories administered in the US, Australia, and the UK state a 3.5% to 4.5% unemployment rate is necessary for running an efficient economy. Sitting in high school econ class, even my dull teenage brain couldn’t fathom why an economic system requiring a percentage of people to suffer through…

All in all, is all we are and all we are is a commodity. When everything has a price, nothing has meaningful value. — “If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”― Confucius Corporate entertainment’s purchasing power decided music’s popularity, but in 1991 technology revolutionized the industry. Collecting and compiling accurate consumer data revealed…

Our future is climate catastrophe and financial enslavement, or we fight. — I think about people trying to keep warm and dry while sleeping on the streets. I wonder when they last felt safe, and their belly was full, but the thoughts pass as spontaneously as they arrive, and I focus on the present. We fool ourselves into believing people choose to…

More than half of the US is pro-choice, but a minority rules. — We haven’t had a federal government representing us for decades. Our knight in shining armor, Obama, bailed out the banks and let us drown. He turned down the proposal to subsidize mortgages so homeowners could keep their homes and repay the banks because he didn’t trust us with the money…

We believe what they tell us, and repression keeps us from questioning it. — Redistributing and investing wealth from natural resources into public services provided universal health care, education, advanced irrigation, homes, and the highest standard of living on the continent. The policies significantly increased gender equality, life expectancy, and literacy rates, facilitating an economically and politically stable society.

Anyone who thinks, questions, or criticizes our government is a Putin apologist and Russian propagandist — the corporate media said so. — The speed at which a peaceful crowd transforms into a frenzied, impulsive mob is horrifyingly quick, and manipulation is easy because we are incredibly predictable. Businesses have capitalized on our insecurities and desires for decades because they understand the power of psychological advertisements, and politicians aren’t any different. …

Sugarcoating history doesn't change the past, and forced patriotism is dangerous. — At the height of the Great Depression in 1932, the Bonus Army marched on Washington to demand the eight-year overdue promised payment for their compulsory 1917–1918 WWI service. In solidarity, veterans of every race and ethnicity flooded the Capitol, ignoring Jim Crow and setting up shantytowns to await the outcome…

Politicians and the media intend to discredit every NATO and anti-war critic. — Asking questions or evaluating historical events aren’t important because history never repeats itself. Anyone suggesting the US should have considered Russia’s most pressing concern is somehow a Russian asset, pro-war, anti-American, propagandist, and idolizes Putin. It’s happening again — 9/11 forced patriotism and conformity. …