"What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host."

-Derrick Jensen

(Perhaps my profane words will offend, but in light of the fact that we are in a race to eradicate capitalism before it renders the Earth uninhabitable, I don't give a nut).

I've come to kibitz with you again.  Because I've been having these visions lately, and none of them are exactly "softly creeping."  It's more like they're harshly pouncing on me, usually about 4 AM when my ability to shed fear is at its weakest, leaving me sweating and staring at the dark ceiling.

Blame it on my own pessimistic tendencies.  Blame it on my bedtime reading.  Blame it on all the rather depressing essays I've been writing.  Blame it on Bush (that's my favorite).  But I keep visualizing our whole world balanced on a tightrope, and that rope is starting to sway.