Between Ani DiFranco and one of my current professors, I’ve been hearing a lot about the terrible things done in the name of America. I’ve known for a long time that the US isn’t the bastion of freedom and generosity that we’re all led to believe. So much death and poverty happens so we can live the life we live. We wear clothing made by sweatshop labor; we eat food cultivated on land stolen from South American natives; we wage war to avenge Daddy President and pick up a little oil to boot. Hegemony, warmongering, multinational corporations.. What to do?
I want so badly to just stop it all, but it seems so big.
i’m with you adam… been having a lot of the same thoughts. i feel like i should be out there protesting but… what does it *really* do? Too much power, corruption and lies above us.
Hey, when you take senior seminar, make sure you get into one of Sutton’s classes. You’ll actually enjoy it.
ok I need to write my paper about the “Death of the Nation-State” now. I’m going to kind of enjoy writing this last paper of my undergraduate career
sure America has it’s problems but the only real viable solution is getting involved in politics. Write your representatives, run for office your self. If you haven’t allready, check out what the green party has to say about our current political system.
I LOVE YOU ADAM