Believing where we cannot prove

[apretty]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Have you, by any chance, read Bright Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich or Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges? I just finished reading them (one as an audiobook) and highly recommend them. Both are scathing looks at how we have become a culture of people who, for all the world, appear to prefer our comforting illusions over the hard work of actually changing society. On the one hand we have the purveyors of 'The Secret' telling us that wishing makes it so (in prettier words but that's still the message) which can easily (and does) slip into the realm of blaming those at the bottom of the well for their position. If we create our own reality and your reality happens to be that you are destitute you created it and therefore there's no reason to question the system in which I have a lot and you have little or nothing. On the other hand, we have people claiming that God will rapture certain humans up and grind the rest underneath Jesus' sandals and so why even *bother* worrying about global warming? While we typically put the former on the Left side of the spectrum and the latter on the Right, I tend to see them as being far more alike than different.

Cheers
Aj

i haven't, thanks for the book suggestions. my governor (the exceedingly white and christian lady who recently took away a woman's right to abortion without waiting 24 hours, prior.) did encourage us to all pray for the state on the 17th of this month. she signed a document and everything: http://www.facebook.com/#/photo.php?...d=173347701125

i'm pretty sure that took me from low-tolerance to zero-tolerance for anything religious/churchy/god-warrior/god is my co-pilot/wwjd. stick a fork in me i.am. *done*. done with victim-blaming and government-fearing white, racist, religious, uneducated and fearful, closeted and bible-thumping freaks.

and the system works because both, those that have a lot and those that have a little each blame those that have *little* for their positions.