Hedges: How our demented Capitalist system made America insane

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in
the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water
be poisoned. Let the forests die.

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in
the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water
be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let
one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses be thrust into
extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on
hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation,
fraud and theft. Reality, at the end, gets unplugged.

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