All We Aren’t Saying
Can We Talk More About What Really Matters?
by Randall Amster
Sometimes it seems as if the dream of peace moves further into the distance with each passing day…
Outside the “radical fringes†of the political spectrum, the silence is almost deafening. This is despite the palpable and (by now) incontrovertible nature of the conjoined crises in our collective midst, as the nexus of economic, ecological, technological, and militaristic challenges before us deepens by the day. Drudgery, droughts, and drones, oh my! Reality possesses a “fantastic†quality that often makes it seem as if we’re moving through a colorized version of an old-school horror flick — a notion reified in the cultural near-obsession with trite invocations of the much-anticipated “zombie apocalypse.†(more…)