Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Is the Dionysian Party Over for St. Tropez?

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

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Is the Dionysian Party Over for St. Tropez?

by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair. Another installment of life among what are known as the 1 per cent Americans, your fellow Americans who, I'm sure, deal with many of the same life issues as we ordinary Americans do.

Today, they are faced with those pesky environmentalists who insist that their playground on the Mediterranean is an environmental hazard. What a downer! Anyway, read all about it and weep for them.