from solitude, solidarity.

americans live in a world we are too ready to accept. we acquiesce too easily to the inevitability of the way things are. indeed, many of us think of our consumer culture as its own version of utopia, where we are absolved of the responsibility to question where our food, our clothes, our cellular devices, our energy come from. of course an astonishing amount of cruelty and violence makes this utopia possible- a violence done to the land, a violence done to human and non-human life. given that our current political and economic systems bear only the slightest resemblance to anything called democracy, why not consider the alternative- especially the radical alternative?                     -erik reece, utopia drive.