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

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Reappearance of Huge Plumes of Oil is Making It Hard to Pretend that the Problem Has Disappeared

from Washington's Blog

The blogger lists numerous sources of evidence that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is being widely observed. Funny, but we don't hear much of this in mainstream media.