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, April 11, 2010

We all want to change the world

from The Economist. I suspect that most of the members of the ruling capitalist classes know that there is a collision course coming between their beloved system and the earth's ecological systems. But being addicted to profits, like an alcoholic addicted to drink, they are always dreaming up some excuse for continuing their habit. I think that it is a grotesque form of hubris to believe that humans can manage the earth's ecosystems. This article is appropriately carried in The Economist--the premier magazine of the capitalist classes.
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