Disposable Life

I have a confession to make.  I used to be different...quite a bit different to the person I am today.  What makes writing this blog so powerful for me personally is that every day I am forced to remember the person I used to be, the choices I made and the beliefs I upheld, even when others shared good reasons with me to choose and believe otherwise.  It is very hard to write this post, because no one likes to be seen in a bad light, but I believe the grief I feel in sharing how I used to be is less important than the message of this post.  So I will do this, I will share how I used to be, and what happened to change me, and why I cannot ever return to the person I used to be. 

Six years ago...
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We Are The 99%

 

'These protestors, who are actually few in number, have contributed nothing.  They're parasites.  They're pure, genuine parasites.  Many of them are bored, trust-funded kids, obsessed with being something, being somebody.  Meaningless lives, they want to matter.'  

Rush Limbaugh

Everything we know about our history - everything man has recorded up until this present moment - all of it has taken six thousand years.  Every single one of those years were based on greed.  Every one of those years functioned under the mandate of a priviledged few controlling entire nations.  The entire history of man has been centered on the tenets of greed, corruption and destruction; every century rife with its own particular injustices, cruelties and murder.

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