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, July 19, 2013

We Must Grasp Reality to Build Effective Resistance

Click here if you wish to access source of this 10:16m interview with Chris Hedges and the transcript from Real News Network.

This appears to be an opening segment of a multi-part interview with a quintessential moralist and resistor of Empire policies who never strays beyond benign protests. In this segment he once again demonstrates that he has difficulty naming the system that is driving us to extinction.