Evolution of Consciousness

“Nighttime in America” by Dennis Kucinich

Bob Herbert wrote his final essay for the New York Times: “Losing Our Way.” I wrote the following response…

Your essay was outstanding, but I have some thoughts on the final sentence: “New ideas and new leadership have seldom been more urgently needed.”

To that I would say…

There are already plenty of great ideas out there. No shortage, both online and at the library. One example, off the top of my head, would be the book: “Alternatives to Economic Globalization.” All these good ideas are simply being ignored by the powers that be.

What we do lack is leadership, and this is the profound disappointment with Obama. He did get our hopes up — but that promise has been dashed. I suspect that the needed leadership in this country will end up coming from the bottom, rather than the top. Such is the stranglehold of money on the current system. All signs point to a choice between active revolution or docile fascism.

Good energy being generated from events in Egypt. The predator’s mask continues to slip…

• “Recognizing the Language of Tyranny” by Chris Hedges
• “Kleptocrats at Work” by Paul Craig Roberts
• “Walk Like An Egyptian” by David Michael Green
• “The Crying Shame of John Boehner” by Matt Taibbi

Another fine essay from DMG, wherein he addresses government’s reluctance to deal with our national cancer: greed.

“This is, in so many ways, the single key that unlocks all the doors to solutions for our various national ailments in the United States.”

2011 is a time for open eyes and clear thinking. Here’s a few people pointing in the right direction…

1. Paul Krugman tracks the cross-eyed hypocrisy that actually passes for serious thinking in economics and public policy these days in “The New Voodoo.”
2. Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges take a look at the shape of things to come in “The Left Has Nowhere to Go.”
3. David Michael Green sends greetings from an Orwellian future: “Happy New Year, 2030.”