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 18, 2012

Define 'Lesser' [evil]

Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust

The One Percent's propaganda machines are so powerful that even people such as Glen Ford, as I recall, melted in his opposition to Obama in the 2008 election and supported him. How much longer are the American people going to be taken in by these liars and poseurs, and these election circuses? Well, I think the numbers are diminishing and that is precisely why the One Percent's operatives are preparing a police state before our very eyes.

Mickey Z. concludes his essay with a profound question that is often on my mind.