A blog posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 29, 2018.
Here’s a New Year’s resolution before January comes to a close – let’s stop lying to each other.
Let’s stop lying about the state of the planet and what it will really take to fix it.
Let’s stop lying about who the “founding fathers” were and what kind of constitution they wrote.
Let’s stop lying to each other that we can fix everything by electing better people to office.
We live in a bubble of myths. They scramble our brains. They make it difficult for us to see the forest, rather than just individual trees; especially when the most powerful forces within our system whisper those myths incessantly in our ears. MORE…