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

Sunday, May 12, 2013

More Than Skin Deep

Click here to access article by David Glenn Cox from OpEd News.

Although everything in his article points to a class war, the author only speculates that "perhaps" there is a "civil war".
Perhaps then, the civil war has already begun.... Our lives become
changed and mutated by these experiences. A child born into wealth lives
in a far different life, a life filled with opportunities. While a
child born into this existence without wealth, is offered a life in the
new American, post industrial poverty, decorated with a continuous
subtle fear and a blankness of opportunity.

These are not the children of one America, but of two peoples.
What I felt was especially valuable in the article is his description of how the Federal Reserve's policy of "quantitative easing", or expanding the money supply, is actually functioning.
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