the women rebels among the native Americans at Standing Rock are very, very courageous.

someone at TOP whose writing I always respected and I asked that writer about Truthdig writer Scheer, because I understood the writer in question worked together with Scheer and knew him. I tried to figure out what the differences between Scheer and Hedges were and the writer in question said that Hedges is not the most cheerful of fellows and can induce depression in his readers and thus be a catalyst of losing hope. So, you are not alone to feel this way and might not like reading Hedges.

Since then I read Hedges and watch my own navel to see if he has the same effect on my "hopey feelings". He has a bit sometimes, but then I also feel it's Hedges own desperation and fury that might induce this style of writing. The example above is one of that. But he was just putting all the questions, which so many have, so eloquently out in the open and very much to the point that I thought I post this here. I don't get depressed reading him. I get depressed not finding answers to the questions he raises.

I think Al had a good answer. People accept a lot of things, if they don't know anymore how to change a condition. It's very hard to find ways to make changes in the legislature, which would help to change the social contract the government has with its people, if so many sacrifices and dangers and risks for those, who rebel or resist, endanger their livelihood and well-being.

Oh well, let's hope, the rebel spirit will spread in the general population. May be somehow through some miracle some important changes in the laws can be made to avoid the worst.