on complicity

How do we not participate in a world gone awry?

I am realizing extent to which I have no choice but to support the corporate takeover of society, if I want to save for retirement that is. Even so-called “green funds” include a lot of big companies, and in my view, big is a part of the problem.

My father did not own shares, not as far as I’m aware.

I am realizing how very lucky my mother is that my father died (in 1981) before the world changed, before his pension was decimated.

Sometimes I think my father was lucky too. Sure, he missed our college graduations, the births of his grandchildren, the Internet (he would have loved it, he was always one to reach for an encyclopedia), the gentrification of Hoboken. But he did not live to feel shame for the country he served, proudly.