Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Violent Backlash Starting?

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

Friday, February 19, 2010

Violent Backlash Starting?

by Yves Smith from her blog, Naked Capitalism. This article, which is about the recent plane crash into the US federal offices in Texas, looks at the incident in a wider context of a trend in the US--anger at the rising gap between the rich and everyone else. Also you can read the suicide note which the fellow left of his website which is no longer accessible there due to the efforts of the FBI.