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

Monday, November 5, 2012

A World in Which Truth is a Dying Species

Click here to access article by Gaither Stewart from Cyrano’s Journal Today.

After examining the latest euphemisms churned out by the Pentagon and other agents of the One Percent, he argues that the main target for the current military buildup is still Russia. Many others think that it is China, but I think there are multiple reasons. 

National class-based rivalries are always present regardless of the nature of the class system, whether capitalist (the US led Empire and Russia), bureaucratic (the former Soviet Union), or a combination of the two (china), a monarchy (Saudi Arabia), or a military junta (Myanmar). Then there is the need for class-ruled societies to assert dominance over, and access to, raw materials, cheap labor, and markets. 

The ultimate solution is to rid humanity from the plague of class rule by designing societies without them. There is no alternative! If the human race fails to solve this problem, they will go the way of the Dodo bird and the dinosaurs. Humans also must learn that they live within the web of nature. and how to live so as to preserve nature--not destroy the web as they are now doing.