As soon as you’re awake, you’re trained to take
What looks like the easy way out
— Bob Dylan, “Political World“
Once more, as so often, I want to point you to a powerful and important article by Arthur Silber, which will tell you a great deal about where we are as a culture and as individuals — and how we got here. I’m not going to excerpt it, because I’d like you to read the whole piece as it is, take it straight, no chaser, without my own spin on it. It will be well worth your time.
And while you are there, why not throw something in the hat, if you can spare it? Silber lives solely on the earnings from his writings, while battling chronic illness year after year (and attacks on his threadbare livelihood by the government). Keeping this important voice of truth going — in the midst of the endless tsunami of lies that overwhelm us (latest example: Obama’s NSA speech, which Silber, characteristically, nailed even before it was given) — is, in every sense, a worthy cause.