Chris Hedges: Time to Get Crazy

Comment #12

sully16 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:16:11 GMT

Vegans,,,,LOL, H*LLLLL NO.

Comment #11

time*treat — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:11:07 GMT

Wait, "poor hunting skills" wasn't the phrase for "vegetarian"? ;-)

Comment #10

sully16 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:31:17 GMT

The Sioux tribe had what was known as shirt wearers, Crazy Horse being one of the most notable, the shirts were given to people who showed extraordinary leadership, bravery, war tactics , spiritualality. Most tribes honored wealth, the more horses you had, the more you were respected. If you wanted to marry, you had to compensate the womens family, trust me, it had better be good. IOU'S WERE UNHEARD OF. There was not much respect for a man who could not provide for his wife,... [ More ]

Comment #9

MADDOG10 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:22:37 GMT

Only with stymied cases.. How can WE respond.

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scorpio — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:52:32 GMT

i see now why our house in congress is so screwed up,they are wrong but refuse to be right.is that what the far right means,right even when you're wrong.hmmm!

Comment #7

MADDOG10 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:55:27 GMT

well then i guess your potus never ventured upon that did he..

Comment #6

rdgrnr — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:54:53 GMT

Unfortunately, he has been using them indiscriminately in all the blogs without regard to context. A true lamebrain.

Comment #5

scorpio — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:53:02 GMT

measured objectively,what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly ifinitesimal.

Comment #4

time*treat — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:10:11 GMT

What would those kinds of people do with all that new freedom and self-responsibility

Comment #3

Rick G — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:15:28 GMT

Comment #2

Tenaj — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:14:27 GMT

"Native societies, in which people redistributed wealth to gain respect, and in which those who hoarded were detested, upheld a communal ethic that had to be obliterated and replaced with the greed, ceaseless exploitation and cult of the self that fuel capitalist expansion.

Comment #1

scorpio — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:45:38 GMT

careful,you're getting close to advocating anarchy,which is an arrestable,felony.

Original Blog Entry: Chris Hedges: Time to Get Crazy

time*treat — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:11:06 GMT

Chris Hedges: Time to Get Crazy

Native Americans' resistance to the westward expansion of Europeans took two forms. One was violence. The other was accommodation. Neither worked. Their land was stolen, their communities were decimated, their women and children were gunned down and the environment was ravaged. There was no legal recourse. There was no justice. There never is for the oppressed. And as we face similar forces of predatory, unchecked corporate power intent on ruthless exploitation and stripping us of legal and physical protection, we must confront how we will respond.

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The article makes some interesting points, but you'll need to sift out some of the hyperbole.

E.g., I'm certain the planet will remain intact, whether or not civilization does.

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