Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever by Caitlin Johnstone

Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Terrorized and flattened by trivialities, eaten up by nothing. I think about this quote a lot not just as pertains to the inevitability of our individual deaths, but to the looming death of the entire world.

Reading by Tim Foley.