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, May 16, 2013

Why Europe can’t just “fix” youth unemployment

Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution.

This European writer, while noticing a sudden concern among European political leaders agents regarding youth unemployment, explains why their formulation of this problem is self-serving and simply wrong. He has a hunch what this concern is really about.

This article is an introduction to some proposed answers to what he regards as the key problem and question:
How could Europe’s downtrodden youth ever possibly conceive of shaking the global financial order? It is to this impossible question that I will turn in my next post. 
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