Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.
. . . every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other. . . I don't know. I can just tell.