I used to think that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I left high school. But, Bush and my political interests led me to partially disown my passion for film, for escapism, because I did not think people could continue to be like those in Plato's Cave who watch the images on the cave wall.
I believe in writing because you do not have to give up writing to spend most of your life being politically active.
Writing for OpEdNews has been something that I do as if it were my job yet I do not get paid. I find the more energy I put into articles (even if they are not read), the better I feel.
I do not know what 2009 holds. I do not expect Barack Obama to do anything. That doesn’t mean he won’t do any good. What it means is that I do not plan to wait for Obama to fight for peace, justice, and freedom.
I plan to continue mobilizing for peace, justice, and freedom and I plan to continue writing about a better way forward than the weak alternative to Bush that the Obama transition team is piecing together for the world.
I wish for the American people to make sacrifices in their lives to make the hope and change they voted for a permanent reality. Such an idea may be utopian, but nothing was more utopian than believing that somehow Obama would fix our woeful nation.
I wish for the American people to be inquisitive and read books and dig deep into the nooks and crannies of libraries to find stories and examples from history of what this nation has been and what it is and what we must not allow it to be in the future.
I wish for the American people to question authority and the customs and traditions which are outmoded primarily because they put rational thinking in the backseat and let a raw and fine-tuned, narcissistic zeal for American supremacy take the wheel.
I wish for the American people to, for once, consider all that they have and why they have enjoyed abundance for so long.
I wish for the American people to think of how that abundance has created freedom and how the freedom to consume has turned us into a society that may siphon away our prospective future living any sort of life whatsoever if we do not collectively stop being Earth junkies.
I do not know what I will be doing when 2009 is over. I know that I want to write as much as possible and be published in as many places as possible.
I have my name attached to the "Seriously Green" documentary which is almost in post-production and I am going to be helping CitizenKate.TV at the Inauguration. I hope people get to see these works completed and enjoy them.
I would like to see my writing in more places than OpEdNews. I would like to work on my writing, fine tune it, and improve my writing and then find out how to be published on Huffington Post, Common Dreams, and other sites.
I would like to write a book and I would also like to write a few screenplays. I would like to write short stories. I would like to publish books online and possibly sell a book or two.
I have this voracious urge to create and live vicariously through my writing and use it to explore ideas and concepts that need to be at the forefront of human consciousness.
As I’ve noticed more and more lately, I’m a poor excuse for a capitalist who has no will to survive in this system created for those who are callous, reckless, deceitful, unlawful, and incapable of feeling guilt or sustaining enduring relationships with others.
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