We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Can We "Fix" the Oil and Financial Crisis Before Its too Late?

by Danny Schlechter from Creative-i. 

From my hasty reading of this article, I think that he is making the argument that BP oil drilling disaster illustrates the workings of the larger capitalist system--they are both the result of criminal behavior inflicted upon society by the ruling class of capitalists.