I guess you just do what you can and that's it .

[blues90]

I get all caught up in all the issues and end up getting run down by a steam roller .

People on this site , well some of them seem to focus on certain issues they can control somewhat .

We now live in a sterilized country where the landscape is the only ytview that offers a change , every place has it's star bucks and McD's and array of box stores with a very few surviving small businesses that have not been wiped off the map forever .

What I am trying to say is to fight huge corps is useless now and to try to convince enough people to open their eyes to what's happening is futile at best .

We try to vote and end this war machine and so far after 4 years it goes on without much promise of stopping it , we vote with the hopes of not only having the vote counted but that the vote will put in place change .

I have given up on political change as the solution , it will take much more than this , it was not the government alone that brought us to this hell , it involved people who had greed and plans in their hearts . They were citizens once too . It also took a country of people who never looked forward or even to ponder if these mass changes were in our best interests , almost as one viewing a snake trying to tell if the color or shape of the head renders certain death from the bite or only a couple of puncture marks , we find out only after the bite accured .

I doubt if any one person or vast collective group has any solution to the problems we face now . All I do know is it will take a collective effort on the part of the people who each in effect make just one small thing a bit better and go from there .

I give up on changing the country , the vast amounts of money spend and the death and daily destructio , the loss of jobs , the shear idea of getting up some days is far beyond my comprehension these days , it is just simply too much to deal with and sustain any form of sanity .

[William769]

" give up on changing the country "

Sorry, but thats the problem. Change doesn't come easy sometimes and it sure doesn't come overnight. Take the Colonists, Slavery, Women, just to name a few. When we give up we are defeated.

[papau]

1. I move between crying at world vision stories and how impossible the change needed is - and

then getting a spine again and determination to change the approach of government as only government has the resources to make real change.

Meanwhile the small steps can focus the mind and take you out of a funk about how impossible it all is. We could give away every dime we have and it would be a drop in the ocean as to the need - but every trip starts with the first step, and while the Lord said the poor are always with us, he also said to to try to help them. You can't expect too much by yourself, or even in a group - but there is no reason not to pound away at the problem.

[LynzM]

2. Agreed, papau

It's so big and overwhelming, but each of us can do what we can, and then realize we can do a little more. I agree with what you've said.

[papau]

4. thanks :-)

:-)

[rasputin1952]

3. The best thing anyone can do is in their own corner of the

world. Small efforts build into a snowball effect, and changes ensue.

Fighting is active and passive, the passive part is avoiding the box stores and the mega-corps. Each day, more people climb on board because they see the destruction of society. Those few of us that take on the smaller issues w/in our communities make a difference every day. It takes time and effort to get change moving alon. It took almost 10 years to get our Revolution off to a start, once it started, there were chances for failure, but they were overcome by people that saw a better future on the horizon...:)

[blues90]

5. People just tend to forget all to quickly in this country

If each generation passed on the best ideals to the next and we had an education system that did the same and had not the television as an easy distraction then just maybe we would not be in this mess .

As people we needed to be on alert and warn of coming disasters but we have failed here .

I doubt I will live long enough to see this change in any great way since far to much damage has been done .

I have always been honest with people and helped when I could only to find if you don;t play the game of the winner you lose . I refuse to change into a player just to win but this is what we are dealing with here , people in huge corps who thrive on the backs of others no matter what the end result and this includes politics . We really need to change the system before we will get the real people off the ground .

All I can say for myself is I never bought into the corporate box store idea or went to any of them strictly because I could see what would happen over time . I have watched time and time again small independant shops have close out sales and the buildings being fence around and dug up only to render another hidious abomination without imagination or conscience , people who worked in jobs for 30 years and just tossed out like garbage and this has built up so much momentum it will not now be stopped .

So at oue very core we are dommed and only because people never looked ahead , if they had and refused to enter and purchase none of these mega corps would have survived .

They involve hardware , clothing , electronics , music and instruments , pets and supplies , office supplies , tools , food , you name it and all was once supplied by mostly small indepentants who cared about employees and service now we have just what people fell into through their own blind ignorence and to try to save a buck and look now the prices at these box holes have risen up to compare with what we had not long ago . This is how they grabbed the people , huge selection at less cost until they killed all others off , now we have no way back and no other choice . They own and control everything including the people , I certainly hope the people are happy now with their chinese crap and low wages because this is what they walked blindly right into , no wonder it was so easy to sell the attack on Iraq and no wonder once the damage is done people finally cry out .

Put some actor on tv with the product that they say they use and everyone climbs into the 1984 mode , dress up an idiot like bush and surround him with well dressed liars with a serious message and stories of fear and there you have it a war . The masses are asses .

[dweller]

6. come home, blues90

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x835273

one small thing.

You don't change the world, you change yourself.
perhaps, vice-versa,
dp

[Forkboy]

7. I'm as cynical and pessimistic as they get,but even I can't give up on the good people still left.