More Inconvenient Truth:

The following is from the introduction to Scott Nearings' "Civilization and Beyond".

You can read more, or the entirety of it, online at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=58053&pageno=1

or by clicking the "Scott Nearing, Civilization" link, the middle link in the second section of linx, section II.

"Until quite recently the word "civilization" has been used in academic
circles to symbolize a social idea or ideal...

Professor of History Anson D. Morse of Amherst College
presents such a view in his _Civilization and the World War_ (Boston:
Ginn 1919). For him, civilization is "the sum of things in which the
heritage of the child of the twentieth century is better than that of
the child of the Stone Age. As a process it is the perfection of man and
mankind. As an end, it is the realization of the highest ideal which men
are capable of forming.... The goal of civilization ... is human society
so organized in all of its constituent groups that each shall yield the
best possible service to each one and thereby to mankind as a whole,
(producing) the perfect organization of humanity." (page 3).

Such thoughts may be noble and inspired; they are not related to
history. We know more or less about a score of civilizations that have
occupied portions of the earth during several thousand years. We know
a great deal about the western civilization which we observe and in
which we participate. Professor Morse's florid words apply to none of
the civilizations known to history. Certainly they are poles away from an
accurate characterization of our own varient of this social pattern.

We are writing this introduction in an effort to make our word pictures
of mankind and its doings correspond with the facts of social history.
With the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, it is high
time for us to exchange the clouds of fancy and the flowers of rhetoric
for the solid ground of historical reality. The word "civilization" must
generalize what has been and what is, as nearly as the past and
present can be embodied in language."

For more about Scott Nearing, check this out:

http://www.chelseagreen.com/2000/items/makingofaradical

or click the "Scott Nearing, Radical link just after "Nearing, Civilization" in the linx...

Howl!!!!!!

It will not be another revolution.

We are the ones we're waiting for.