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i'm on the road a lot with a great band called the ryan montbleau band (www.ryanmontbleau.com). we have long rides in a smelly van so i like to read books about nerdy things to distract me. it's fun. sometimes when i'm drunk, i rant about my strongly liberal political beliefs. not often though, because i'm generally shy around strangers.

"Modern Industrial Civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praise worthy, on the grounds that private vices can yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist, with whatever suffering and injustice it entails, as long as it is possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can. At this stage of history, either one of two things is possible: either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity and sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively, there will be no destiny for anyone to control." -- Noam Chomsky