it's all fucked...so fuck it

I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live.
Bring the power back to the street, where the people live.
We sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons...
Dying over money and relying on religion for help -
We do for self like ants in a colony.

***GET DANGEROUS. GET SMART.***

Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt. Pay your loans. Be thankful for the scraps we toss. Chant back to us our phrases about democracy, greatness and freedom. Vote in our rigged political theater. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide corporations with huge profits. Stand by mutely as our bipartisan congressional super committee, either through consensus or cynical dysfunction, plunges you into a society without basic social services including unemployment benefits. Pay for the crimes of Wall Street.

—Chris Hedges (Read the op-ed in its entirety here, http://www.truth-out.org/what-revolution-looks/1321384587 )

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    chris hedges (read...http://www.truth-out.org/what-revolution-looks/1321384587).
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    I almost always agree with...Hedges, and have long admired him for dumping
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