There Is No Tomorrow by Bill Moyers

[HamiltonHabs32]

I am assuming this has already been posted, but I can't find it anywhere so here y'all go (mods can merge if need be)

Either way I went through the article and found relavent links to some of the points that he makes throughout the article.

Check it out

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. EXCELLENT - But please post in Articles and Editorials

That's really where it belongs.

[HamiltonHabs32]

3. sure thing

I think im sitting at around 20% success rate for posting threads in the proper forum lol.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Jeez. Uzz. Kee. Riced.

Moyers nails it.

That's why Job One has to be the Cleansing of the New Temple and the Scourging of the Moneylenders (to use a Christian metaphor). We're being sent to hell impaled on a cross.

--p!

[Az]

4. There are many that depend on their feelings of optimism

They look to history and the notion that it is cyclical. Seldom have we had the perspective that we have today. Able to look out over the past and see how things constantly seem to revolve. But this insite fails to notice something. It is not that cycles just happen. It is that the people involved in the cycles are compelled to act by the danger of the situation they percieve.

It is our sense of enlightenment that things will eventually change that holds us from action. As individuals we keep waiting for the natural cycle we know must exist to kick in. Our optimism that things will get better actually stops the process from starting. b

We have to act to make the cycle return from this perilous journey to the extreme right. The pendulem does not simply swing back of its own accord. The people must rise up and move it back on their own. That is how the pendulem swings. By each one of us grabbing it and dragging it back.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Freakin' religious nut cases.

Self serving self absorbed religious ASSHOLES! If they're so anxious to meet their "God" why don't they do themselves end and leave the rest of us sane people and the World alone?

[HamiltonHabs32]

6. agree

of course not all religious people are bad... but it is bad when they have so much power, the world would be a better place imo if there were more humanists/athiests in power.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Couldn't agree more! n/t

[Toucano]

7. I hadn't seen it

and I thank you for posting it.

[oasis]

8. Bill Moyers is a treasure.