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…

The US invests more money and energy in killing people than in peace, the public, non-military technology, medical advancements, and our habitat. — One million Americans protested nuclear weapons in 1982, and a year later, three million Western Europeans demanded an end to the Cold War arms race. …

The long road to killing Nord Stream and ending Europe’s inexpensive gas transform the globe, prompting civil unrest and political shifts. — Europe has maintained a civil relationship since the Cold War and pursued trade with Russia despite the US perceiving the relationship as "undermining Europe's overall energy security and stability." Historically, European nations resented obstructionism because they haven't shared the US opinion of Russia.

There's a side of the US we don't see or know because it doesn't expose itself to us, but there's no denying it exists. — In jest, I asked my coworker who studied conflict resolution why he hadn't brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine. He laughed, saying that's easy, but the US doesn't want peace — wars are the economy's foundation. He has seen the United States that Americans don't see. Colonialism and imperialism…

The US violates the UN Charter and commits war crimes, yet Biden's UN speech disregards any wrongdoing. — The 193 representatives who attend the UN General Assembly aren't naive or dumb. They know the US violates the UN Charter and commits war crimes, yet Biden's speech at the Assembly (of all places) condemned Russia while claiming the US adheres to international laws. Anyone who sat through Biden's 30-minute…

The elites and the US government subvert the public by any means necessary, and we know more lies than facts. — Freedom of the press has always been an illusion — surveillance, censorship, propaganda, subversion, and doublespeak fool Americans into believing anything. “If it surprises and perhaps angers a certain type of reader to hear it said that America is one of the most misinformed countries in the civilized world —…

U.S. global wars don't exclude Americans, and our cultural delusions are killing us and the world. — A pandemic rages, California's on fire, human rights diminish, poverty explodes, infrastructure collapses, and our president flies to Saudi Arabia to fist bump the dictator. While families struggle to afford gas, food, and energy, the oil companies earn four times as much as last year, and the Federal Reserve punishes…