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

Monday, February 17, 2014

I Have Seen Fear

Click here to access article by Andre Vltchek from Dissident Voice.

This very moving essay contains so much inspiration and wisdom, more so than I have seen for quite some time. Here is only one gem among many (because the quote is taken out of its natural context, to preserve the meaning I placed the first sentence after the other sentences in the paragraph.):
Because this present regime, this ‘New World Order’, which is actually not new at all, is doing all it can to reverse natural development, to lock us all back in the gloom and doom of some outdated religious-style dogmatism. We are forced; we are being conditioned to believe in capitalism, in a Western style of ‘multi-party democracy’, in the superiority of Western concepts. That is why truly free thought has lately been directly and brutally targeted in the West, and in the other oppressed parts of the world. 
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