Don’t Have To Sleepwalk The Exceptionist Dream

There really is different way but it just took so long for me to see that I could take it

I actually can get through a day without massive doses of factory-extruded sugar, fat and salt

Loud noises need not be a major part of every single goddamn thing I ever do

All those daily tasks I must perform plainly should not require gigajoules of energy

Need not take advantage of far off poverty for some new plastic baubles

Can listen to the flow of natural sound instead of modern carbon-based cacophony

Don’t have a need to go to extremes in coming-of-age displacement recreation

It’s really not necessary that I pack on a few more extra pounds, year after stressed-out year

I can walk as they drive by, pedal in their exhaust stream and meditate in their stalled traffic

Take my cotton bags to be used again and again, much to their sardonic laughter and scorn

Humbly find my clothes among their once-expensive castoffs at the crowded thrift stores

Refurbish, re-use and re-purpose without over-paying those ignorant, so-called, craftsmen

No law states I must spend a fortune to try and cosmetically hide my perpetual aging

There is no reason that I should not save a goodly portion of everything that I earn

Now I really believe that these long daily commutes are simply fool’s errands

Needn’t keep on acting out like I’m as rich and attractive as their media models

I just won’t consume this so-called meat they build with all the care of factory production

I found that there’s a different tour available of this vast and mysterious cosmos

We can cook and bake for ourselves with natural and maybe even organic ingredients

Won’t confuse comfort and efficiency with a lack of their boorishly faux luxury

There is another horse I can ride when I need to head off into the sunset

Staying off to the side, still swept along by their currents, but not completely hypnotized

No fad diets or best-seller of the month can raise my consciousness anymore

Let us instead whisper of those quiet, gentle voices which soothe our mortal wounds

No sense to leave behind a pile of shiny, unused and worthless, yet still unpaid-for toys

No point in over-compensating for my mass-produced and artificial shortcomings

Just seeking things that we’re all really looking for, in doses that I can handle

Simply staying in the shade when it’s hot, seeking out the sun when I’m cold

Worshiping over-inflated media sports heroes will not provide me with a guiding light

This specter of blinding patriotism they so frenetically raise will not sustain me

Their deadly bickering over worn out and irrelevant religions cannot soothe my soul

Happily I begin to see there is nothing in eternity from which we can be saved

There is another way and if you’re quiet they’ll ignore you as they speed on by

You can reduce your earthly footprint and they won’t even notice it at all

Striving peacefully for a sustainable lifestyle will not raise their ire

I can smile inside and be elsewhere, not amidst this foolish noise and choking dust

Carefree Times On The Road To Our Extinction

We increased our numbers far beyond the carrying capacity of our native planet

We fouled the water and poisoned the air that, after all, only sustained our very lives

Our once rich soil has been blown away or contaminated due to our inept corporate farming methods

We poached the charismatic mega-fauna to extinction even as we destroyed their habitat

We have gouged the earth to burn the coal that sullies the lovely atmosphere…and our kid’s brains

We swarm upon each other in endless fool wars with our dear mother earth as but collateral damage

We cut the shading trees for firewood or for quick profits building things not meant to last

We dump our toxic wastes into the rivers that we have channelized and dammed. Yet still drink from

Our great cities appear as nasty pockmarks from the tiny vantage points we built out in space

We decimated the great whales and spiked the seals milk with exotic chemicals

Our miracle plastic litter drifts throughout the vast ocean basins and no one is responsible

We’ll melt the polar icecaps and turn the mountain glaciers into dry and naked rock

We have carelessly torched our vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas and released their CO₂

Most of us live in ignorance and poverty in spite of our noble free economies

The poorest among us bring forth the greatest number of new offspring into our overpopulated world

We perpetually delude ourselves with petty gods, sex, work, drugs, kids, food and patriotism

The once-beneficent rain is now filled with poisonous acid thanks to our virtuous industrial efforts

Deserts encroach more each year given our ravenous goats, constant firewood need & CO₂ emissions

We look forward to our lord’s infinite paradise after lives spent blindly pursuing individual happiness

The unsustainability of our societies shall not be altered should it perturbs our daily lives...at all

We make loud noise in everything we do, never even aware of how very still we really should remain

We slaughter each other over petty disagreements between our stale yet vapid religious fantasies

Our emissions silently destroy that portion of the atmosphere protecting us from deadly cosmic rays

We haphazardly introduce exotic species that wreak havoc upon finely-balanced native ecosystems

In our prideful ignorance our fictional god anoints only us, of all species, with a so-called eternal soul

We prefer catchphrases and demagogues to personal responsibility and inherited wisdom

We waste trillions on a military whose sole purpose is to kill people and destroy infrastructure

Our road to extinction is built upon ignorance, greed, hubris, intolerance and shortsightedness

We breed our meat animals to be weak and stupid and we exterminate all their wild predators

We unwittingly select for the strongest microbes with our anti-bacterial cleansers

We find fake news sound bites more effective vote-getters than reason and understanding

We fill endless toxically-leaching dumps with tons and tons of re-usable and like-new castoffs

Our batteries, paints and lawn sprays wind up right back in our own drinking water

We scatter lead and mercury which dulls the potentials of our own precious children

Our economic system is purposely blind to the fact that it totally depends on the global ecosystem

Though we tramp blindly down the road to extinction, we thank god above it’s not the road to hell

One Step Forward, Two Steps Towards Extinction

We’re finally making some  real advances against that awful malarial plague in africa

We are losing 50 species per day to this man-made mass extinction of ours

Infant mortality is being reduced even in the very poorest areas

50 million acres of rain forest are destroyed each and every year

china and India are bootstrapping their way out of abject poverty

80000 porpoises and 200000 albatross are killed each year as useless bycatch

the air in the LA basin is dramatically cleaner than in the 70s

china is home to 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted urban areas

smallpox and polio have been virtually eliminated worldwide

the average annual temperature in Alaska is increasing 1˚ per decade

food costs have decreased relative to income for years in the USA

the world's grasslands are overgrazed by mans animals by a factor of nearly 2

experts predict human population will stabilize at around 9 billion inside of 50 years

researchers say the earth could sustain 1-2 billion developed world inhabitants

great progress has been made in bilingual education in our schools

35% of latinos drop out of high school even as newly-arrived illegales take away their bad jobs

consumers are now much more aware of the health benefits of eating seafood

global tuna populations have declined by over 70% and are now not naturally sustainable

we are now sure of the vital role that marshes play as fish nurseries and in water purification

the US alone destroyed 117000 acres of wetlands every single year from 1985 to 1995

the early plastics industry had to convince people to throw away their cups

nowadays every year 380 billion plastic bags are discarded just in the USA

In 25 years, people worldwide living on less than a dollar a day fell by half a billion

Today, some 1.1 billion people must live on less than one US dollar for an entire day

2002 U.S. health spending was almost 2.5 times that of the median OECD country

20% of US citizens have no health insurance and their numbers increase every day

Military spending only amounts to about 2.5% of world GDP

US military outlays represent 48% of the whole world’s total

America proudly spends almost $9000 per year per student on education

So-called 3^rd world Costa Rica has a higher literacy rate than the undeveloping United States

Abandon Unsustainable Programmed Hyper-Consumption

Junk all your oversized, poorly-built, gas guzzlers you silly hypnotized children

Realize that others are not sleeping as you relax in a comatose and ignorant arrogance

Convert your laughable McMansions into comfortable multi-family residences

Quit replacing productive farms and fields with sterile rows of throwaway dream homes

Build it to last and not to just make a quick buck and strut away with a cynical smirk

Ask how others are building spaceships, capping CO2 and recycling - without whining

Wander out of this cultural desert and think, just once, what you leave for the future

Go visit the castles and churches they have preserved from a thousand years ago

Quit tossing away all this hyper-packaging and compost the 25% of food you waste

Find out how they tunneled subways beneath their ancient cities but we simply won’t afford it

Scream bloody murder about the sinful waste of ever-increasing military spending

Don’t let them shovel so-called clean coal down your lungs as a green alternative energy source

Only flush your toilet with just enough water to get the job cleanly done

Bury the fast food corporate giants underneath a vast and empty indifference

Learn what real bread is and shut down the meat animal death camps

Simply slash the fat, cut the sugar, remove the salt and reduce the calories

Quit eating just because you are artificially nervous and overwrought

Forget silly gas-powered wreckreation and engage your body in real outdoor activity

Silence all the artificially noisy airplanes, trucks, motorcycles and automobiles

Just don’t let them charge any more useless shit that they cannot even afford

Get their god out of your pocketbook by taxing these sham corporate salvation franchises

Put the environment and our future ahead of this quarter’s stock price

Learn to speak and read at least your native language - and then we can talk

Out the corporate subsidy hoax of corn-based bio-fuel before it costs even more

Quit justifying eco-rape and unsustainability by falsely pitting them against people and jobs

Challenge the ridiculous notion that healthcare is, or even should be, left to the free market

Don’t let big coal and oil stifle the alternative energy boom that’s sweeping the world

Dump the black or white, just say no, do-nothing two-party system and embrace working coalitions

Cook good food at home and make them clean their plates and do the damn dishes

Wake up and think for yourself before they come to carry you off the couch on your back

Can’t Stop Our Ordained, Greed-based Progress

Keep on moving alongside of it, or get the hell out of our One True Way

These new asshole to elbow suburbs are merely blessed parts of God’s rich plan

Quit your misguided whining and chronic, spoiled, mealy-mouthed complaining

Outside developers quite naturally buy low, build cheap, sell out and move on

What could we really do differently anyway? Hey, these good people need those jobs!

Tinderbox strip malls are the climax stage in an ordained, faith-based ecological succession

How else are we going to provide for our ever-expanding human population?

The ready answer is really just about this simple – Ever bigger portions of more of the same

Just follow the money and you’ll find whose pocket putting people first always lands in

We’ve already defined the false choices so you cannot ever reframe the phony debate

You can’t stop the ordained progress upon which our vapid and consumptive lifestyle feeds

So either drive that excavator or get pushed off to the side with all the dead trees

We can’t control the future but we sure can can sniff out a quick profit in the here and now

Under Manifest Destiny we are honor bound to voraciously extract & consume, from coast to coast

Look at the good jobs we provide to the community - for up to several summers

Being constantly driven by insatiable greed merely expresses our consecrated pursuit of happiness

Listen, you can’t make a cake without breaking a few eggs, right?

So, really, you can ignore shattering the ecosystem that sustains you - To make a quick buck

Simple-minded hyper-consumption is the genius that guides the blind hand of the free market

Planning and conservation is the province of that old, tired and failed socialist agenda

With money, law and tradition behind us, we bulldoze away any and all feeble arguments

We polish our moneymaking skills by doing just what we know best, over and over and over again

There’s no stopping progress, just ask those smog-purple mountains above the once-fertile plains

Just take some more of these pills and you’ll enjoy the bounty of our febrile exploitation

We’ve got laws and precedents going back to our revered colonist forefathers

They stopped slavery but we still do what we want to the land, once we get a loan

We must tame and control, kill or be killed, slash, burn and flatten to survive

It’s man against nature in a war of attrition and our cash flow shows us winning big

We’re building on a sacred heritage of free enterprise and entrepreneurial energy

We’re deconstructing our children’s future one shoddy eco-shattering development at a time

After all, since you can’t stop progress, what is it that you are really think you can do?

Look, this farmland could return more next year as identical housing units for harried commuters

Our progress is inevitable and a foregone conclusion, just like our uncontrolled population growth

So, even though our lakes and rivers are just filthy sewage drains, there are still clean ones up north

No human force can stop a progress that has monetary gain as its ultimate and only goal

God made it so and only spoiled, out-of-touch liberals raise some witless, namby-pamby concerns

We are tightly wrapped in patriotism, God, free enterprise and Traditional Family Values©

Faith in free markets guarantees that everyone’s selfish actions will blindly yield a better future

Look, you can’t stop progress, this is all part of His wondrous design for us, his Exceptionist tribe

We’ve framed the debate and marginalized you while hyping lies to the good people, our people

Our way forward is bold and unambiguous but you would paralyze us with all your baseless fears

Our greedy individual clutching moves us all inexorably forward towards the Happily-Ever-After

You can’t stop progress unless it will make us more money more quickly, and then that’s progress

It’s like asking us to recycle for free just because it makes you feel better

We don’t condone all of these environmental impact studies and over-regulation

We measure our progress in amounts of CO₂ emitted, wetlands drained and acres deforested

The history we never learned most certainly shows that ours is the only one true way

Let there be Chinese ‘God Bless America’ flag decals on the backs of all our bulldozers

Look, your burdensome over-regulation can only cost good people, our supporters, jobs and money

This government meddling is very much akin to the failed social programs of the past

We can’t predict the outcome of our actions so we say just roll the dice and we’ll see...

We’ll solve any real problems after forcing scientists to prove they really exist...in a political debate

After all, what studies show that so-called intact ecosystems really benefit any society?...

None, but...It is true that lust for gain has clearly driven the flowering of our blessed demockracy