“America is a completely phony ‘society’, there is nothing ‘civilized’ about what we’re up to, collectively. This ‘place’ is an anti-place, and our ‘dead inside’ cities are an insult to the ideas of freedom, justice and the common good. The principles upon which it was founded have merit only to the degree we experiment and enact them with wisdom, compassion, and a sense of the possibilities of human communal care and intelligence.

What is that degree?

Minimal, at best. And the cost of implementing that minimal degree is born by our noble ancestors, the living places (which have no voice), the plants and animals, and the poor.

While not entirely absent of merit, our history is a history of counterfeiting them for the profit and ‘ascension’ of those who can best manipulate them for selfish purposes.

This is a seething and malignant lie, this ‘America’. And the putative ‘fact’ that is ‘among the better of modern lies’ is the opposite of an accolade. The ‘least vile of murderers’ is still a criminal; no matter how they hide this fact and counterfeit virtue.

We did not establish the atrocities whose results we inherit, innovate and re-enact together. It is not precisely ‘the fault of the citizens’, but rather, our failure to establish anything resembling intelligent, virtuous, creative society at the broad scale.

We are using an ‘operating system’ so archaic that, in order to simply sustain it, we must actively destroy the planet, each other, our ancestors and children, and the very womb of the living planet from which we emerge as exemplars. Not only have we failed to ‘update’ this operating system, no one has even suggested it in any serious fashion.

If we tried to use such an OS on a computer, it would not only fail to function, it would simply stall when activated, and generate a billion error messages, each one blaming the other for the abject failure to even become a computer. Then, each little window would flex and celebrate its private supremacy, like a vast argument of mechanical idiots, whose swarming voices overwhelmed, hypnotized, and… finally, euthanized… it users.

Chained as the are to hardware and software upon which their life and activities… appear to depend.”

— an anonymous informant