Born in a refugee camp post WW2 to parents who’d fled from Lithuania just ahead of Stalin's vengeful ravaging army, I have always been the alien, the foreigner, the stranger, the heretic no matter where I’ve gone or turned. Till 18, I did not even have citizenship of any country. Truly an outsider.

Always being the "other", however, has given me a different perspective about life & everything in it. My unique perspective is rarely in line with expected norms, & for that, I am tremendously grateful. To be "normal" in today's world would require me to be crazy. Yes, I'm crazy, but not in the way the general (m)asses of people tend to be. I'm "crazy" in that I don't buy the horseshit that everyone else does, like the foundational myths of Western Civilization. These I see as tremendously flawed & taking humanity over a cliff. I am standing aside & cheering as it all goes over the edge, the way of the dodo.

The foundational myths? Religion, nationalism & patriotism, democracy, capitalism, competition, schooljails, the family, monogamy = all BS & at the heart of why the U$$$$$ is folding up shop & going on a suicidal rampage which, unfortunately, will reverberate around the world because too many for too long have looked at the U$$$$ as El Dorado & a world leader.

Humanity is now paying the price for following the U$$$$'s manipulative & aggressively violent lead. Nature's vehement unacceptance of its climate collapsing is being placed on the heads of all the braindead masses that persist in going along with all the idiocies like owning individual cars, ignoring mass transit & walking, using plastic as though it were water, flushing water as if it were air, & assuming air would infinitely cleanse itself.

I do whatever I can to wake people up to the need for respect of nature, ourselves, & one another or we are doomed—very soon.