The Powerful Feed Ideology To The Masses

Fury Is An Entirely Appropriate Response To A System That Sends Young People To Kill Other Young People In A War That Never Should Have Been Waged. Yet The American Right Is Forever Trying To Pathologise Anger As Something Menacing And Abnormal, Dismissing War Opponents As Hateful And, In The Latest Slur, "wild-eyed". This Is Much Harder To Do When Victims Of Wars Begin To Speak For Themselves: No One Questions The Wildness In The Eyes Of A Mother Or Father Who Has Just Lost A Son Or Daughter, Or The Fury Of A Soldier Who Knows That He Is Being Asked To Kill, And To Die, Needlessly.

Free Speech Is Meaningless If The Commercial Cacophony Has Risen To The Point Where No One Can Hear You.

So We Are Left With A Stark Choice: Allow Climate Disruption To Change Everything About Our World, Or Change Pretty Much Everything About Our Economy To Avoid That Fate. But We Need To Be Very Clear: Because Of Our Decades Of Collective Denial, No Gradual, Incremental Options Are Now Available To Us.

Those Looking For Ideology In The White House Should Consider This: For The Men Who Rule Our World, Rules Are For Other People.

Real Climate Solutions Are Ones That Steer These Interventions To Systematically Disperse And Devolve Power And Control To The Community Level, Whether Through Community-controlled Renewable Energy, Local Organic Agriculture Or Transit Systems Genuinely Accountable To Their Users.