This is just so much crappy bs. Until any and everyone comes to recognize the real problem of this world and way to correct it, 2009 and on into the next century will only be worse. I am talking about the over population of humans on this planet. Here is the most simple of facts that can be brought to light to illustrate this:
In the middle of the 20th century, the estimated population was at around 2,000,000,000 people. Compared to the time the pligrims landed on plymouth rock when the poplulation was about 500,000,000. And now here at the end of othe 21st century there is an estimated 6,600,000,000 people. Look at the time lines. Think about each human’s drain on the environment. Just how long can the ‘unfettered’ growth of humans continue without some sort of catastrophic collapse? If anyone thinks forever, then the ignorance of the people will certainly bring this world of today to a very ugly end, leaving an environment that could support the survivors with less than they would need and even more collapse. Vectors are quickly coming together for such a scenario but very few are brave enough to broach the subject and the world media damn sure will not bring it to the people. Even the commmenters at this and other sites don’t care to give this as a part of the equation of what is wrong now and what it will portend.

Mr. Doine,

Thank you, I thought the article was quite insightful and inspiring.  I also thought that many the comments contain valid points.  I think that we should definately point out our discomforts with the interrests that seem to be bugging many concerning The Obama Transition, but it will be progress for our Democractic Republic.

Once sworn in the speculation will be ended and solid actions will mark this administration.  The House being fully elected every 2 years will have to pay attention to this internet chatter that reflects the feelings of their constituents.  The Senate will be to a lesser degree mindful of the chatter on the media that they have less control over.

We will see change and expect that it will be slow in manifesting.  Expect that there will be resistance.  I think there should be a loud call for 3.5% cost of living raise on all Federal employees for the next 4 years and a FREEZE on the Salaries of Reps, Senators, and President/Vice President.

Elections need to be less dependent on the Corporate Funding.  The number of lobbiest need to be restricted especially in the Defense, Pharmicutical, Healthcare, Insurance, & Energy Industries.  “WE THE PEOPLE” formed this Union and it has been serving Global Entities too long.

“Social and political epochs rarely end precisely on schedules provided by” journalists. The start of The Great War in 1914 may have ushered in a 20th Century “epoch” of senseless militarism and agression but that hardly came to an end on Nov. 4, 2008. Nor did, “What we call “The Sixties” in the United States” with its “ethos of reform and protest” end with “Richard Nixon’s landslide re-election in 1972”;  or his subsequent disgrace in the events surounding - but hardly limited to - what we call ‘Watergate’.  History is messier than neatly defined and dated “epochs”. Events and responses wax and wane with no particular guiding formula.  At any given time there are voices of “reform and protest”. Barack Obama’s isn’t one of them. Obama Copacabana is obviously a lot closer to the “ethos” of Tricky Dick Nixon than to the “the Sixties” with its “ethos of reform and protest”. Like Tricky Dick, Tricky Barack, who has decried the ehos of the 60s, campaigned, in part, on a deceptive election theme of unifying a divided nation. Both candidates, in their respective campaigns were able to use the disingenuous unity theme as a way of stamping out any “ethos of reform and protest”, and unifying the country, once again, behind the corporate imperialist agenda. The Crook from San Clemente ultimately wasn’t able to follow through on the back of his “landslise victory” as Watergate cut short his ruthless spell in office. Hopefully, something similar will hapen to shifty Obama. The “ethos of reform and protest” sputtered on haltingly throughout the 70’s despite the best efforts of the hapless Jimmy Carter to quash it. It really took the fork-tongued Ronnie Ray-gun and his gang to finally put paid to the Sixties “ethos of reform and protest” with a massive Cold War propaganda campaign; and to revive a moribund economy with a lot of deficit spending and military Keynesianism. And it’s Bonzo that the teflon-tongued Obama not only most resembles, but most admires. In a Nevada newspaper interview during the primary campaign, bipartisan Barack effused “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.” And apparently “we” want more militarism, more foreign interventionism, more corporate welfare, more socialism for the rich, etc. like the Reaganauts brought us. Oooh yeah baby, if you liked the grisly Gipper, you’ll love ‘epochal’ Obama. “For all the chatter about the world changing decisively after the” November election, the Obama flimflam is still “conditioned by 20th-century assumptions”.  Hold on to your helmets, the 21st Century promises to start off every bit as ugly as the 20th. “A band of reactionary terrorists” in Washington and Tel Aviv should see to that.
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Well at least wishful thinking is a renewable resource.

“Only when people become sick-and-tired of being sick, and tired, will they perhaps reach a place where they’re ready to take the Medicine that can cure what ails them.”  The Chinese had already figured that out five thousand years ago.

Today’s “modern” domesticated peoples, as shown by articles and comments here and all over the virtual world, are certainly well-aware of their geometrically increasing levels of “discomfort,” but persist still in thinking it’ll only take some tweaking of this-or-that ideological or institutional or technological “thermostat” to restore them to what they’ve been trained to believe is a healthy state of affairs.

This expectation persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it is the apparatus of “climate control” itself that is relentlessly degrading the already seriously degenerate condition their “condition” is in.  What’s more, it is by now beyond any possibility of a sensible doubt that this is occurring as the intended consequence of the contraption’s operations, and NOT because something has gone wrong with it or its “managers.”  Your adored “civilization” is in-fact doing exactly what its perpetrators designed and built it to do, thank-you-very-much.

Of course a central feature of that design is keeping the inmates from realizing what their actual status in the great pyramid scam really is….in-part by keeping them persuaded that the damned thing is all their own brilliant idea in-the-first-place.  So far that part of the machinery seems to be working pretty well.

“The twenty-first century” is of course a completely arbitrary notion, but it’s useful to our tormentors and exploiters as a make-believe “milepost” on their super-highway to oblivion….a-k-a:  The Road to Human “PROGRESS.”  Such things give Sen. McCain’s “....fellow (and gal?) prisoners” the false but convincing impression of actually getting somewhere….other than further along the one-way conveyor-belt to their ultimate dis-integration, that is.  The “election” of an “African-american president” is another one of those pretend proofs of progress.

The “fatal flaw” in the current “crop” of homo domesticus could well turn-out to be their electro-mechanically enhanced capacity to see “things” from the tiniest to the biggest in the material world, while being completely unable to see theirownselfs accurately in-relation to any of it.  Their “tragedy” will be in coming to an ignoble and messy end while the Medicine they needed was right there within their reach….their contrived prideful ignorance all that prevented them from taking it.

Us surviving free wild Human Beings ARE the Medicine, tame Sisters and Brothers, that can make you whole again, and at-home within the Living Arrangement of our Mother Earth within the Song ‘n’ Dance of Life Herownself.  No fooling!

HokaHey!

For a Century which opened with womens rights, Worker rights and The Middle Class, the Closing has seen all fall by the wayside.
Womens rights ..we are still discussing if Reproduction is a private matter or a social matter. Womens rigth to vote, to two female candidates who gave in to the Good Ol’ Boys Club mentality. From freedom girdles to regular injections of Botox. No Ladies, we have not come a long way.
From the Rise of workers rights,reasonable hours and wages, increased safety and the elimination of child labor to “More concessions” and villification
From the economic strength of a large middle class, to just shy of Feudalism.
But these are just afew- From national Parks, to ‘Drill Baby Drill’, From Military Reservations to the ‘Bush Doctrine’....
About the only Two commonalities is the Century has basically been book ended with War & Economic Depression
We had plenty of fits & starts but never really accomplished anything progessing US towards the ideals of our Founders. In fact the last 40 have been a steady progession backwards, towards an era of Nobles and Serfs, Righteous and Sinful,Patriots and Traitors.
No wonder The Pharms are doing so well on their Anti Depressant & anti anxiety (and Hard On) med sales.
It’s Certainly been a ‘bumpy ride’.Perhaps if we focus on smoothing out the road ahead, our shock absorbers will work better. There will always been the Unexpected, the unforeseen or the unthinkable, But our reactions to such things needed be ‘Balls to the wall’. If W did nothing he typified the ‘rooting tooting’ wild drunk Cowboy Knee jerk reactionary approach in the 20th…Wild Swings to the left than the Right.
Returning to our founding principles would be a good start…‘For the People & By the People’..Not For the Politicians and by the Politicians, Not for the Corps or By the Corps , Not For Wall Street and By Wall Street, Not For Allies and By Allies, Not for Religion and By A Religion.If our antion fails to retrieve the torch of ‘Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’ for it’s Citizens, then the 20th Century will go down as the Century the ‘Shining City’ Fell off the Hilltop.
Heres to the New Millenia and the New Adminstration!

Mr. Dionne, it’s good to see that you as a member of the fourth estate have finally recognized your backwardness.  Many people engaged in the study of future dynamics already know that America’s leadership is twenty five years behind. Your scatter-brained approach to describing your awakening is common among newbies.  Welcome to the new world of change.

Your new assignment is to recognize that for the first time in history the entire world is changing at break-neck speed.  In addition also recognize that decentralized participation in problem solving results in our best chance to handle the chaos engendered by hyper-change.  Also know that visions are fluid and only become effective when a large majority of participants are on board with both understanding and participation.  The mechanism that allows this participation is the internet. 

So please drop the pretension that we need a cowardly and backward fourth estate to interpret the world for us, we do not.  Your participation is always welcome but please try to catch up.