The Wake Up Amerika! Message

The Wake Up Amerika! message is one that everyone in our country must hear, until we get it…

While it is becoming increasingly clear that we are confronted by an unprecedented array of impending economic and environmental disasters that threaten our living standards, health, and national security; most Amerikans are unaware of the fundamental problem underlying these impending disasters.

Part one of the Wake Up Amerika! message is that we, as individual Amerikans, are responsible for the impending economic and environmental disasters that currently confront us. In our unrelenting efforts to maintain our addiction to excessive consumption—live beyond our means, economically and environmentally, in order to perpetuate our inflated lifestyles—we continue to commit, both individually and through our political and economic representatives, the economic and environmental indiscretions that have put us on the road to impending disaster.

We are the problem…

Unfortunately, neither our dysfunctional behavior, nor our addiction to excessive consumption and our resulting inflated lifestyles are sustainable.

Part two of the Wake Up Amerika! message is that we, as addicts, must take decisive action to terminate our addiction to excessive consumption, and we must insist that our political and economic representatives do the same; that the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms associated with terminating our addiction will be societal disruptions, living standard degradation, and population reduction; that the longer we wait, the more severe these withdrawal symptoms will be; and that the price for inaction is reaching our day of reckoning, a societal apocalypse in which the disruptions to our lifestyles and society are likely to be catastrophic and permanent.

We must be the solution…

Achieving permanent solutions to our pressing economic and environmental problems involves nothing less than a cultural revolution, the American Cultural Revolution, during which we must terminate our addiction to excessive consumption and choose to live within our means, both individually and societally.

Or many of us will not survive...

Wake Up Amerika! seeks to create broad public awareness of our addiction to excessive consumption and its inevitable consequences, to promote open public discussion regarding permanent solutions to our addiction, and to encourage Amerikans to take decisive action to terminate our addiction NOW—thereby regaining control over our individual and national destinies and establishing a solid foundation for future generations.

(See www.wakeupamerika.com for proposed solutions; I welcome your solutions as well.)