Under hela min livstid har människor velat resa till landet i Väster, eller i Öster när jag bodde i Asien, men listan över platser i USA som du inte vill vara om du vill undvika utrotning börjar nu blir ganska lång. Så hus i Florida är inget jag överväger. Du skulle heller inte vilja leva i Kalifornien eller i de torra sydvästra delarna av de förenade staterna, eftersom grundvattnet snart är slut. Leva längs med många av landets kuster är även det farligt, eftersom de sannolikt kommer översvämmas av stigande världshav, de hav som småningom kommer öka på en bit över 60 meter. Den östra halvan av Nordamerika även den farlig, eftersom paradoxalt nog orsakar ett dramatiskt varmare Arktis att jetströmmen kommer slingra sig, producera allt mer våldsamma vintrar, som i kombination med dyrare fossila bränslen, kommer orsaka omfattande dödsfall på grund av köldexponering. Och alla som åkt tåg i Sverige vet att lite extra snö, vilket sannolikt kommer att bli den nya normala, snabbt förstör hela transportinfrastrukturen. Inte heller skulle du vilja bo på någon av de platser där vattenkällan kommer från glaciärer, då dessa kommer smälta bort. Vilket stora delar av Pakistan, Indien, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Irak, Iran och så vidare. Listan över platser där du inte vill vara kommande hundra år blir alltså med lite eftertanke ganska lång.
Emellertid; hela norra halvan av Eurasien ser ganska trevlig ut, i alla fall under en mer oöverskådlig framtid; då jag gärna vill föra mina gener vidare kommer jag således snart börja undervisa min son i den lilla skolryska jag har kvar.
"En katt sover i solen och världen består utan att behöva vittnesmålets bokstäver. Ty inget skulle ha framgått av dem utom insikten att det är synd om oss människor.”
fredag 20 februari 2015
William Blum
"From 1945 to
2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments,
and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against
intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the
end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a
life of agony and despair."
Etiketter:
William Blum
söndag 15 februari 2015
Franklin D Roosevelt
"Men are
not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Etiketter:
Franklin D Roosevelt
torsdag 12 februari 2015
Frantz Fanon
"Sometimes
people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with
evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It
would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called
cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief,
they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with
the core belief."
Etiketter:
Frantz Fanon
måndag 9 februari 2015
Larry Kerschner
"A
normal person does not want to kill and will avoid it at all costs. The military
won't let you remain normal. It doesn't matter if you think you are smart enough
not to get caught up in their lies. They will change you.
Don't be sucked into the biggest myth and lie that dying
for your country is somehow heroic"
Etiketter:
Larry Kerschner
fredag 6 februari 2015
Vaudevillehandling

torsdag 5 februari 2015
Thomas Carlyle
Is man's
civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still
burst, infernal as ever?
Etiketter:
Thomas Carlyle
tisdag 3 februari 2015
Mark Twain
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Etiketter:
Mark Twain
måndag 2 februari 2015
Vredens druvor


Etiketter:
John Steinbeck
söndag 1 februari 2015
John Steinbeck
"And the
great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with
access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when
property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that
companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take
by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all
history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the
repressed."
Etiketter:
John Steinbeck
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