IMHO, the most valuable thing that can be done now is to spread an understanding of the damage that the current set of ideologies and policies have wrought, how self-serving they are for those who promote them, and how essential it is for them to be replaced to ameliorate the damage that remains to be done and put us in a position to begin rebuilding.

We are being hit by a financial hurricane.  The response is like that towards Katrina.  Turning away from the ugly truths on display only gives the shock capitalist boys and girls more scope to operate.  Paralysis by revulsion only abets those to whom revulsion is not possible--the sociopaths who have been in charge.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

more pooties?

but it's therapeutic!

doom porn i mean...

kidding aside, i love the mix here. we don't ignore the worst, and we use vicious, nasty, black humour to try and cushion the shock, lashing out at shadows...

i agree about the positive stuff tho, it's great to see how and when things change for the better. i try to do this with solar, and jerome's successes with wind are welcome fodder after our tireless deconstructions of what's wrong with the world.

Yes We Can!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty