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

Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Tragedy of Forgotten Wisdom

Click here to access article by Don Quijones from Raging Bull-Shit

This piece is all about defending the idea of conspiracy which is usually defined as an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future. Of course, for obvious reasons real conspirators never want people to believe that such activities exist, or at least not emanating from the elite. Because there is so much widespread evidence that major conspiracies have been perpetrated by members of the One Percent ruling class, we now see a backlash from their spokespeople who try to discourage such speculations. One such person is New York Times columnist Roger Cohen who charges that only weak people engage in conspiracies theories. This is a response to that charge.