--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Progressive blogger Glenn Greenwald has a post > on Salon.com suggesting that a pervasive, > profound, and highly positive change is taking > place in the political atmosphere. > > Greenwald quotes from a comment left by one > of his readers yesterday on Greenwald's previous > post concerning Bill Moyers' recent documentary > on the media in the runup to the Iraq war: > > "I have to say that a remarkably intimate, yet expansive, community > of thought seems to be forming across television, film, and the > Internet. There's a rather quiet, yet intense, movement of thought > and expression building. It focuses not so much on any particular > ideology ("right" or "left"), but on a common, critical-mass thirst > to dispel the deception, irrationality, and utter hubris that has > been corroding our proud country for what seems like an eternity. > > "An undeniable intellectual and social confluence is rapidly gaining > momentum and solidarity. This solidarity is amazingly organic, not > hierarchical -- its only guide is the sixth sense of skepticism, > outrage, and, yes, reason. It transcends party. It is oceanic, > atmospheric. An intellectual, moral, societal, and psychological > gestalt as ancient as humanity itself, kept underfoot by a long > winter, but indelibly germinating once again with the thaw. > > "It is literally everywhere now. The voices of blindness and rage > cannot shake me anymore. I haven't felt such hope in a very long > time." > > Gotta hope he's right. The language struck me, > because it isn't about specific events but rather > something that sounds suspiciously like what one > might call increased coherence in mass consciousness. > > Read the whole post: > http://tinyurl.com/3dc5ya > Good tip! Interesting to think that if Bushie and Chainie hadn't been both so corrupt and incompetent, the hideous sludge of dirty national and international politics may never have come to light. I hope whatever changes result are profound and permanent, truly creating a better world for all of us.
