it started when karin told me the truck with a big plastic tank and a sprayer was spraying Roundup in the nature sanctuary. it started before that when the poisoner levy was spraying on the little wooded island and putting scrawled signs reading toxic to dogs. it started long before that, i don't remember when. the product, proven to cause cancer some time ago, has been on the market and sold for forty years or more. it started today when i rope my bike past a guy with a tank on his back that said Roundup Pro at vista homes. the guy was latin american. he smiled sweetly, wearing no protection. but there is no protection from the environment of the free market, under the license of monsanto.
what kind of society, or civilization, allows a product proven to cause cancer to continue to be advertised as safe, placed in stores, and sold to consumers? that kills not only what is advertised but everything that is associated with the undesired, that lives in the environment. are we allowed to ask? is the question too rhetorical, moot, or naive? it's the same kind of society or civilization that allows the product to be incorporated into the organisms we don't want to kill, but to eat, and incorporates a suicide gene into the seeds to ensure that the profit is maintained by the brand and company. roundup, indeed. 
this is the civilization that wages endless wars on weaker countries for profit. it's the culture war culture at home, the war on undesirables, invaders, really, the civilization where culture is profit, and profitable death is called collateral damage, that has less regard for life than profit, in fact has no regard for life whatever aside from keeping the consumers alive long enough to buy the product until the next generation of consumers grows up, those that will buy, that survive. we don't hear much about the cancer rates of the country, or the world. there's other oppressing news. it's hard to tell that story, of killing for profit by any other name. it seems the civilization in question is branding death and selling it whether the consumer wants it or not. i have never bought Roundup: i have no idea how much of it is in me. someday the survivors of the culture's winners and the products they make may study these things.
what kind of civilization does these things? it would seem to be a civilization predicated on it's own demise, marketing death to it's own citizens, making the whole planet pay. if it wasn't just business it would likely be called a sinister death cult.