there is one human story. 
dressed in new clothing and using new tools, we endlessly relive it. 
if we still read philosophy, literature, history, poetry and theology 
we would not be surprised that greed, hedonism and hubris have easily defeated empathy and reason. 
but because we do not, because we spend hours each day getting little bursts of dopamine from electronic screens, we think we are unique in human existence. 
we are unable to see that the climate conditions that allowed civilizations 
to flourish during the last 10,000 years will soon be replaced by a savage struggle to survive.

the longer we publicly deny the bleak reality before us and privately cope with our existential dread and pain, the more crippling despair becomes. this schizophrenic existence is a form of emotional abuse. it is imposed on us by a dominant culture that will not allow us to speak this tragic truth. this censorship forces us to struggle with reality in solitude, eroding our confidence in our perceptions and judgments. 

-chris hedges

happy labor day kids. we earned it.