Hi croc,
While I agree generally with your viewpoint, I also find that the reaction of the general public to the Bush Administration's assault on, well, nearly everything, is something that out be getting us aroused to take action. Instead, we get the individual in society who senses something is wrong, but takes no active steps to fight the evil. Instead, merely sensing a feeling of sadness, yearning for better conditions and less inequality and corruption.
My Dad had a saying he shared with me when I was very young. He'd gotten it from his father. "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
The meaning, in the context of the environmental devastation that the Bushies intend to impose is that those who merely mourn ecological devastation aren't ever going to stop it.
As Franklin Roosevelt astutely observed, "there is no group in America that can withstand an aroused public opinion."
Mere expressions of sadness, or working the fringes of the bureaucracy for crumbs off the table such as leaked documents and near-silent agreement with the ecological activist from the bureaucracy may make us feel righteous, but will never put us in control.
I continue to say that getting mad trumps being sad in every human endeavor. Without a massive mobilization of public opinion between now and November, the result of the election will be a predictable mush. Leaving the public, once again, only a witness to the future being imposed on us by some very sinsister actors. |
