t r u t h o u t | The More Things Change…

“[In the 1960’s] We thought America was being run by the corporate-military-industrial white male power structure . . . We were certain there was a right-wing conspiracy. We thought civil liberties and free speech were imperiled. We were suspicious of rich people. We had reason to believe there was corporate malfeasance and Wall Street was bad. We worried that the government was backing coups in Latin America. We figured the administration wanted to topple all the overwrought, self-appointed messiahs who didn’t know how to run their own little societies. We assumed that powerful people were rigging elections. We feared there were people who wanted to blast roads through forests and rip up the tundra. . . . And now, all our worst paranoid nightmares are coming true.”

Recommended reading for the new millenium: Alan Moore’s Watchmen.