Furthermore, we don't report polar bear plights in relationship to extinction rates. Consider the following graph:
Species are currently going extinct at a faster rate than at any time in the past with the exception of cataclysmic encoders with extraterrestrial objects. A good proxy for the rate of extinction is the rate of growth in energy used by the human population. In other words, extinction rates are increasing in step with the product of population growth times the growth in affluence.
http://www.whole-systems.org/extinctions.html
Rationalization is a lie we tell ourselves. Interesting, the term ration is to limit. How much do we question how we are conditioned? No, we follow the media and allow ourselves to be fooled. Oh, how the Who's words, " I fall to my knees and pray, that we won't get fooled again " ring true. We are literal fools, nothing less.
We are fooling ourselves by separating out the various integrated aspects to the world. For example, we don't get that climate change; the high rates of species extinction (including polar bears); and our own alienation are linked. Are those "shop-till-you-drop" folks truly in touch with themselves and the world? Is it right that they support what basically is slave labor in China when they buy a pair of shoes? Do they also see the asthmatic child sensitive to the polluted air in the city that makes these shoes struggling for their breath? Can you see the pattern?
Again, Steppenwolf chimes in, " American, where are you now, don't you care about your sons and daughters. " The overall answer is a flat, cold, and sociopathic "NO!" Just give me my plastic purse! Or if you are a guy, sell me pair of tight underpants that will make my lady squeal with delight.
There is nothing wrong with being sexually attractive. But do we need to be attractively dressed in corporate garb, be it purse or underpants? Perhaps we are attractive by being who we truly are instead of living up to corporate / commercial standards?
As Lao Tzu says in the Tao Te Ching, "be newborn, be free of yourself." In other words, let go of how you have been conditioned. If you want this in Christian terms, think of Christ watching a woman breast feed a baby and then remark, "be like him."
In essence, Doug Hendren says we are being robbed. We are the poor being robbed by the rich. Listen to the following song as presented on Youtube:
"How many times must a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?" asks songwriter Bob Dylan in his "Blowing like the Wind." This song was written in the early 60's. That's 60 years ago. And here we are, still stuck in the same old pattern! "How many times" indeed, Bob! Perhaps that knock on "Heaven's Door" is closer now then when you wrote the song?
How much longer do we continue? How many times do we ask the question? Do we ask it once the planet becomes extinct of life? At what point do we reach deeply into the vacuum of our Soul and bring forth who we are in our deepest potential? Or do we continue to choose life dictated to us by corporate media, education and government? When do we truly govern for the people and by the people while also realizing that corporations ARE NOT people. To be a person means one has a body with heart, brain, etc. If we declare them as people, then we should be able to prosecute for crimes while being able to execute and give jail time.
Beyond that, we should not care what sociopaths such as Mitt Romney or even Obama and the Supreme Court says regarding corporations as people. Doug Hendren has a song, "Real People Have Hearts," (as opposed to Corporations.) Some of the lyrics run " Real people can't outsource their body parts," or " be liquidated." Corporate "people" are not meant to run the government. We are. Thus our Constitution begins with "WE the people." I seriously doubt that the founders meant corporations. "The people" means YOU.
To listen to an interview with Doug, including some of his music, visit:
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