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, January 19, 2014

Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #8

Click here to access article by xraymike79 from Collapse of Industrial Civilization. 

The author provides us with a much needed antidote to all the violence, inequality, and exploitation in today's world.
Wow, it’s been 3 months since we’ve done one of these, and I think we need a laugh or a chuckle.
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