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kicking and screaming every step, but they will go down.

floods, wildfires and hurricanes make powerful cases for change, the heavy lifting, as it were...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 08:32:50 AM EST
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Who are the "they" you refer to?  Ordinary SUV driving Joe/Josephine Blow, the uberwealthy, or both?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 09:25:24 AM EST
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no, not joe blow, the energy consortiums that are resisting change.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 11:18:57 AM EST
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When you perceive yourself as being on top of the heap, you resist change at all costs because you are terrified of having to do with less, having done very little productively to warrant your privileged status.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 02:14:33 PM EST
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no matter how much money you throw at it.

it makes me think of those lab rats that keep jerking the pleasure button even if they starve to death.

some can be gentled out of it, others...

(working on it)

:)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 06:11:04 PM EST
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