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Do you ever feel like there is something inherently wrong with the world around you? Do you feel like day to day life is going to leave you completely insane? Maybe you’ve been put on psychotropic drugs, gone to talk therapy and have done everything for yourself concerning rest but still feel like crap. Still, one thought has perhaps never occured to you: that this civilization and this way of living is one hundred percent completely wrong.

Our society is a “growth economy”. For an entity to grow, it needs nutrition. The growth nutrition in our growth economy comes from “resources”. Resources is a distancing word meaning from the Earth. All thingsproduced originate from the Earth. The human people, labeled “consumers” are distanced from the production processes by multinational corporations, retail outlets and dealers.

The Earth and her non-human inhabitants are consistently violated or killed in the processes of production. For instance, strip mining and oil extraction often leave the Earth at those locations completely unable to support any plant or animal life. This statement includes human animals. Animals are often killed or chased away in the first stages of these two extraction operations. The land is raped, stripped of trees and dug into with bulldozers and drills.

In a strip mining operation, say, for copper, the copper ore is then taken to a refinery where arsenic is a by-product. For aluminum, the process by-product is flouride which sticks to the factory smokestack scrubber and is collected there for the use on your teeth in the form of toothpaste.

The copper is made into wire, sometimes into televisions which is channeled into your home in the form of Jerry Springer, misleading wildlife documentaries and the news, featuring murders, politics and other garbage.

The flouride adds to the future osteoporosis of your already calcium deficient bones (thanks to phosphoric acid used in sodas), contributes to the health problems of your children and rewires your brain for you. With the psychotropic drugs prescribed by the family doctor, this can’t be too good.

There are thousands of these resource extractions for the good of the “growth economy” that add to your misery everyday. Meanwhile, you are strapped to the 9-5 job that contributes to other stress related physical problems and only continues to funnel money into the pockets of the wealthy.  The corporations do it by threatening to withdrawl the money from your pockets, the only system of living that you have ever known. That threatens to remove the roof from over your head, starves your children and leads to homelessness and death.

This is not the only life you need to know. In future Thursday updates, I will be giving advice on how to get out of the system that threatens violence and further be discussing the problems with civilization.