The confession. If you read that bru-ha-ha that accompanied my web log, you will find it absurdist. It was ment to be. I have trouble with taking the Internet seriously. No political change will be wrought from this medium. Maybe some entertainment, but not now...not until the bandwidth allows full motion video with excellent audio on a awitched system like the phone. I deleted the references sited by the aritcle that I copied (plagerized). What I am finding is some entertainment of an intellectual type.

 

    For instance, an old friend in the Boston area sent me the following:

 

Tree-Huggers To Do List:

1. Bury your car

2. Become a total vegetarian

3. Grow your own vegetables

4. Have your power lines disconnected

5. Don't have children

6. Limit the world population of vehicles

7. Don't build cars

8. Stop building roads

9. Replace roads with homes, parks and gardens

10. Halt weapons production and exports

11. Stop the sale, distribution and export of cigarettes

12. Send money to Brazil to provide urban jobs for impoverished workers now forced into the rainforests

13. Blockade a lumber truck carrying old-growth trees

14. Spend a month tree-sitting

15. Try to live within the World Average Income ($1250 a year) for one month.

16. Cut up your credit cards

17. Unplug your television

18. Undertake a "Conservation Sabbath" -- one day a week without consuming electricity or fuel

19. Fast one day each week and send the money saved on food to help feed the hungry

20. Adopt a homeless person

21. Raise the Minimum Wage to a survival income

22. Enact a Maximum Wage Law

23. Tie politicians' salaries to the average working wage

24. Replace majority rule with proportional representation

25. Replace the Electoral College with direct democratic elections

26. Abolish the CIA and the National Security Act of 1949

27. Pass a Nature Amendment to the US Constitution
28. Retire Presidential Advisor John Sununu
29. Plant one new tree every day

30. Go to jail for something you believe in

31. Don't own pets

32. Allow all beef-producing domestic cattle to become extinct

33. Redirect the military budget to restoration work; convert weapons factories to peaceful research; retrain soldiers for ecological restoration

34. Remove US Forest Service from under the Agriculture Department; place USFS, Bureau of Land Management, Fish & Wildlife Service under the EPA.
35. Consume only products produced within your bioregion
36. Don't eat anything that comes in a package

37. Don't buy anything that comes in a box
38. Require operators and owners of nuclear powerplants to live within one mile of the site
39. Mandate federal recycling and institute a refuse tax on solid waste

40. Pipe polluted water back into the water supplies of the companies that do the polluting

41. Don't own anything that runs on batteries

42. Boycott the Big Top

43. Travel by bus, never by air

44. Stop using toilet paper

45. Extend the life of your wardrobe by learning to make and mend your own clothes

46. Give money to every single panhandler you meet

47. Democratize your workplace: start a union or a collective

48. Is your job sustainable (i.e. recession-proof)? If not, learn to farm

49. Liberate a zoo

50. In honor of Earth Day, ask your boss if you can take a day off to work on healing the planet ... with pay!

 

What are the chances of the above happening? Before the year 2004, little and none. After the year 2004, none and little. Only out and out revolution will change what is wrong in America. BUT far too many folks are too fat and happy to have that happen. If only a "crisis of government" were possible...but that is a nightmare that will not happen in my lifetime.