I don’t normally use this website to rant. However, this morning I can’t resist the opportunity to pass on others’ impassioned rants which succinctly sum up my own feelings about the disastrous direction this country is being led by its governmental and corporate masters.
A regular Joe from Gloucester, Massachusetts (Jim Munn, a writer, house painter and high school track coach) wrote an opinion piece that originally appeared in his local paper, and which I came across on the website of one of my musical muses, Neil Young. (To read the story, scroll down on the Neil Young website to the story “‘Don’t Want No More Lies, Cries The Restless Consumer.”)
Old Neil came out with a harshly anti-war album in May 2006, “Living with War,” and his website has since featured and expanded on his anti-war passion. How do these rants (the song and the opinion piece) relate to sustainable community solutions? Communities don’t exist in a vacuum. It’s critical to understand the global context in which we want to act locally and craft more sustainable solutions.
Jim Munn’s rant is based on Young’s rant, “The Restless Consumer,” which plays when linking to the website. Read it (and listen to the song) and weep for the price we are paying and our descendants will pay for our heedless consumption of the lies fed to us by our governmental and corporate masters. And then pledge to no longer accept their lies.
(If you want to feed your righteous indignation further after viewing/listening to “The Restless Consumer”, check out the recently released YouTube video of Neil Young’s prescient “Vampire Blues,” which was released on the album “On the Beach” in 1974.)