{PBJFlorida} Fwd: Hedges: Welcome to the Asylum

Let's read this Chris Hedges piece below and discuss it...

Here's a quote to help get you into it, 

"Rebuilding this older vision of community, one based on cooperation rather than exploitation, will be as important to our survival as changing our patterns of consumption, growing food locally and ending our dependence on fossil fuels."

Here's another quote, 

"A society that loses the capacity for the sacred, that lacks the power of human imagination, that cannot practice empathy, ultimately ensures its own destruction."

Jim 

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From: Truthdig <newsletter@truthdig.com>
Date: April 30, 2012 7:30:12 AM EDT
To: jim@communitycreatives.org
Subject: Hedges: Welcome to the Asylum
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Chris Hedges on a World Gone Mad
"Welcome to the Asylum" -- The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide.

Marcia Alesan Dawkins on the Riots
"The L.A. Uprising's 20th Anniversary and the Resurrection of Tupac Shakur" -- Sunday, April 29, marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Los Angeles uprising and the two-week anniversary of the resurrection of slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur as a hologram at Coachella. The events are not a coincidence. Rather, they are part of a cultural argument that speaks to racial tensions, police misconduct and vigilantism that have plagued the city for decades.

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