A virtual "cloud of witnesses", finding their outraged tongue. Finding ways to tell the Powers that the water is rising fast, on all of us. Wendell Berry quickly comes to mind. And MB, MOT and dozens more. Another, whom I read every Monday morning, is James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency), at his Clusterfuck Nation site. He absolutely nails it down on all four corners with this week's rant:
http://kunstler.com/...
I think a good pamphleteer could turn this into something that could be handed out like moral weapons. Thrust in the faces of the moral idiots who bawl out, "Gee! What izzit yawll want?" Posters and the like. I rarely read such articulate rage. Something to think about below the squiggle.
This winter will be the Occupy Movement's Valley Forge. An uneasy quiet may settle across this land blanketed in frozen dishonesty while OWS goes to the ground. Wait until next summer when the Occupiers head for the nominating conventions
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*If you had the good fortune to watch The Crossing on PBS, you know just how somber that sounds. On the edge.
He has a pretty interesting take on the panic being expressed "backstage" by the old guard and the probable, very interesting dynamics of the political future:
I have no idea who else might be waiting in the background, someone tortured with disgust by the leveraged buy-out of the American common good, someone capable of articulating the terms of the convulsion we face in national life if we don't start doing things differently. Surely in a population of 310 million you can find more than a few resolute personalities who refuse to just sit back and watch the sickening spectacle of inept vacillation.
And several orders of business:
Of course, the first order of business is to get corporate money out of politics. Are we capable of doing that? Can we legislate a redefinition of corporate "personhood?" After all, corporations have no allegiance whatsoever to the public interest, only to their shareholders and boards of directors. Who was the Supreme Court kidding when they proposed in 2010 that corporations have a personal stake in politics. Corporations are sociopaths. They need to be tasered!
Read this call to "arms".
http://kunstler.com/...
"He takes the hide off with the hair" - Wendell Berry