after having just read your essay I found my self at lunch with my father in the middle of middle America... a suburb within a suburb... a concrete jungle like all the rest... and my father there across from me telling me about life, religion, Jesus and how America is just and acting in pure defense as he would for his daughter were she attacked. For him this country reacts out of a pure human instinct to defend home and family... to defend the tribe... I am naive to passively allow a violation of my security... When I try to explain that it is different... American foreign policy is not motivated by such pure and loving thoughts... that our aim is power at the expense of all life in our way... even our own sons and daughters... he shuts down... he can not hear me... he can not  accept that he is a part of a machine that destroys life so indiscriminately... and who could? Once you lift the veil there is no turning back... to be faced with the reality, the nightmare we have created... is painful.... many of us who are connected to this Earthly body... this "Earthship"... feel so much grief for our loss... lost love, lost life... I cry for the deaths of children I've never seen like I cry for the deaths of my dear friends who have checked out along the way... but out of destruction is born a new dream. Death is life... babies are now being born as our friends are dieing...So how do we create a new paradigm for my father? Can we create a new dream with out first lifting the veil? Must we first destroy the crust of deceit to allow the new truth to unfold? I love that so many people are coming to this point of exchange... trading thoughts of dissidence for hope of a new world... a place of peace and autonomy and balance within the whole system of Earthly life. But I ask us all to continue the struggle to lift the veil and offer this new dream in exchange... And when will we take it to the Burbs? We need to awaken the sleeper... because much of America is fast asleep... And if anyone knows a good method for gently lifting the veil for our friends and family please let us know.... cause Michael Moore is coming off as a crack pot and they aren't buying...   for the love of Anarchy                                                                   Blessed Be