Yeah. I've had a lot of moments like that lately: the feeling that I should Do Something, but the whole thing is such a tangled mass of suck and evil and suck that I don't know where to start. The local food stuff is a good idea, though.
Also: Nobody could really be so greedy as to decree that saving seeds from a crop for next year is a serious threat to the bottom line, and allot millions to pursue farmers who do it
Yes. I was talking elsewhere about some disturbing political stuff, and had the same realization: I couldn't *write* these people. Not in a novel. Not even in a game. (Although the U.S. corporate world is a decent model for a Tiamat cult, attitude-wise.) Nobody would find them believable, because...come on, nobody's that fucked up and evil, right? Right?
I keep seeing Slacktivists on here. I don't post much, and I don't think most people pay attention to me, as when I do post, I don't say anything of note. But I love reading your comments. :)
The saddest part is that, if we all buck up, and get into our political big-kids pants, and start to reverse the whole damn mess, it will most likely take longer than we are alive to get things squared away. And I'm just talking about the political stuff, let alone the economic and environmental aspects.
If it ever gets going, I think it will feel like the movements back in the 50s and 60s, but it's so much more ethereal, I don't know if it will actually attract people.
Someone mentioned, and damned if I can remember where or why, that we might need a PR campaign like they had in WWII: make it about doing your part and personal heroism and that. Which would be great, but frankly I'm too cynical about politics to see today's government doing it.
Good for you! It takes a lot of guts (and a lot of disgust) to change a lifelong party affiliation--lord knows, I can understand why in this case. It really is the economy, stupid! *flail*
Thanks! Yes, the economy is vitally important, but I'm still much more of a moderate than leftist, but I'm not about to let the Republicans drag women back into the dark ages again.
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Oh yes, oh yes, they are that evil. As for part of what anyone can do. KEEP Talking about Monsanto, the EEEEVil that they are, and the senators they must own, and try try to buy organic (even if some of it is lies, sigh), and sniff around for locally grown meat, and , well, keep pushing the rock up hill. My daughter and I run a small organic truck farm, in Colorado, and we can't produce much, but we have customers, and yay for them:) And we buy organic for the stuff we don't produce, and , that's about all any of us can do. Monsanto, the Sauron of the modern world. Yes, they are that vile. Nanette Furman
Yeah, I have similar problems, except with an extra level. I find it hard to believe that anyone can be that creepy and scary especially since professionally I interact with people from the agrigiants and they are very nice normal people who are doing their jobs and living their lives as best they can.
It's quite the dichotomy, and an unspoken but very real reason why I turned down the attempt by one of those giants to lure me away from my current employer. I'll work with them, but I sure as hell don't want to work for them.
Also: Nobody could really be so greedy as to decree that saving seeds from a crop for next year is a serious threat to the bottom line, and allot millions to pursue farmers who do it
Yes. I was talking elsewhere about some disturbing political stuff, and had the same realization: I couldn't *write* these people. Not in a novel. Not even in a game. (Although the U.S. corporate world is a decent model for a Tiamat cult, attitude-wise.) Nobody would find them believable, because...come on, nobody's that fucked up and evil, right? Right?
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Talk about bitter-sweet. I couldn't say 'I told you so' for the taste of ashes.
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Hello!
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And I'm just talking about the political stuff, let alone the economic and environmental aspects.
If it ever gets going, I think it will feel like the movements back in the 50s and 60s, but it's so much more ethereal, I don't know if it will actually attract people.
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Someone mentioned, and damned if I can remember where or why, that we might need a PR campaign like they had in WWII: make it about doing your part and personal heroism and that. Which would be great, but frankly I'm too cynical about politics to see today's government doing it.
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Err...welcome to the other side?
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Yes, the economy is vitally important, but
I'm still much more of a moderate than leftist, but I'm not about to let the Republicans drag women back into the dark ages again.
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I might have to stop mocking Captain Planet so much. At least for its villains. I can still snark about the Heart kid and his damn monkey, though.
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and sniff around for locally grown meat, and , well, keep pushing the rock up hill. My daughter and I run a small organic truck farm, in Colorado, and we can't produce much, but we have customers, and yay for them:) And we buy
organic for the stuff we don't produce, and , that's about all any of us can do.
Monsanto, the Sauron of the modern world. Yes, they are that vile.
Nanette Furman
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It's quite the dichotomy, and an unspoken but very real reason why I turned down the attempt by one of those giants to lure me away from my current employer. I'll work with them, but I sure as hell don't want to work for them.
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