Marc Severson

Just goes to show: In this country, if you want something, and you work your goddamn ass off for it, you can get really close and then smile stoically while they give it to some rich guy’s son.

Hubris is very, very dangerous. In our high-tech society, it lures us into temporarily buffering ourselves against many of the natural consequences of our destructive activities. When we contaminate our drinking water, we “purify” it with chemicals. When we pollute the air, we …

The nihilistic and hubristic belief that we are separate from and in control of the rest of creation shares much in common with the myth of the Thousand Year Reich and is equally delusional. Nazis took the practice of “othering” to a nihilistic extreme, utterly oblivious to the fact that a…