Reply #33: One of the most insightful posts for a while [View All]

[McKenzie]

Why? Well, it is rare to see someone articulate the real deal. More often, it's a case of let's get a few more Dems into office and by some miracle they will overcome the bureaucratic inertia that seems to be stopping real change. Wakey wakey...that ain't gonna happen in this "culture of contentment" (J K Galbraith). Too much discomfort involved, too much fear that change will bite some of us on the arse and...noooo....maintain the warm, soothing music please...change is too scary and it'll upset the corporations in any case.

You have hit the bullseye with your post. Expecting those in power to change anything that is likely to lead them to step outside their collective comfort zone is a tad optimistic - it ain't gonna happen. Incremental change (or scraps from the table perhaps) is all they will allow to happen; a sniff of real change and the herd might just stampede in the wrong direction.

Good post, cogently argued and...uncomfortably (sorry, had to slip in a crap pun) true. As you know full well we need more than just a rearrangement of the deck chairs on a sinking ship...we need grass roots action to effect real change, the sort of change that those who like perpetuation of the collective cosiness will not even approach. The corporations won't allow it and those who might be able to affect change won't deal with it because everything is just fine as it is thank you. So you are bang on...we have to do it for ourselves.