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

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Dystopia Now: Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital

Click here to access article by Paul Street from CounterPunch.

Initially Street reports on an editorial by a conservative NY Times columnist which I largely skipped over to find some real cogent observations about the catastrophe of capitalism that is occurring right now--and it will only get worse. I found these observations beginning in the next section subtitled "'Successful Modernity': The Present is Stranger Than Dystopia".
Who thinks anymore that the U.S-of American “argument” between “liberalism [translate: the Democrats] and conservatism [translate: the Republicans]” (both of which are aligned with corporate plutocracy, global U.S. Empire, and eco-cide against democracy, social justice and the common good) marks “the great argument of our time? (Try democracy and the common good versus the unelected and interrelated dictatorships money and empire or, more simply, the people versus the ruling classes.)
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