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, September 1, 2018

What Future Awaits the Babies of 2018?

Click here to access article by Gregory Barrett from Dissident Voice.
... for a vast number of Germans and Americans and people all over the world, a life without children would be incomplete.

And therein lies the crux. Most of us who make that decision are thinking less about that new baby’s future than about our own futures … our own happiness … our own sense of fulfillment. Of course, we plan to do everything within our power to give that child a good life.

Unfortunately, it no longer lies within our power to give those babies a secure future, as I see it.
I especially identify with this perspective on young children. To my astonishment, I have not encountered this anywhere else in the blogosphere. Daily when I see young children and babies, I react with a thinly disguised horror as to what kind of future they face. Their proud parents simply refuse to acknowledge (or repress) the future chamber of horrors their children will experience.
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