Pampleteering is a GREAT idea! There are other great ideas, but they involve getting up off your butts and doing – people giving up their cars, their cell phones, animal products, etc. are all worthwhile and should be applauded! I give up!

Meanwhile, if you’d like me to email you copies of two long correspondences I had with Professor Chomsky, the first in 1972 regarding the non-influence of the left in this country on the course of the Vietnam War, the second three years later, I will. The correspondence was by letters of course, and the Professor was most patient, and responsive to my voice from the void.

You could email me your email, at moc.liamgnull@yesworlg.

But of course. Right. Times have changed.

It’s the enormous self-centerdedness in a temporal sense, not in the ego-mania sense, with all the discussion focused on post-9/11, that appalls me.

Actually, I enjoy ego-maniacs. They’re so good for a laugh-at.

People stupid enough to passively watch their government (90% support by some polls) wage war in 2002 under the guise of catching a dead man who could direct hijackings from a cave in Afghanistan – probably deserve the government they get.

Chomsky is puffed up with decades of his own tired bullshit about revolution while his portfolio burgeons and his assets are trust fund protected, like a good capitalist should.

“Progressives” lose b/c once they reach a certain income level – they preach one thing and practice another. As the po’ folk say here in the Heartland – “talk never could do nothin’.”

If the left in this country is afraid of the “Cuba-Castro” issue, I say…. fuck them. They don’t have a ghost, and that’s the proof of it.

I liked the last post; how to put that in clear language that joe q. public can digest – remember, we’ve all been brainwashed, some of us have escaped most of it, but it takes alot to dislodge disinformation from brainwashed people.

There is something amuzing about your embrace of all things progressive in one instant and then bashing progressives the next.

What gives?

As far as what the narrative should be it, that’s fairly simple. Start it by replaying how we wondered off the path of community and the reality that the earth is not ours to plunder, while it provides everything we need.

To transform our systems of dominance and control to one of adapability and solidarity with our community and the globe.

You can develop that narrative. It has many manifestations. Mostly it has to do with a reconnection of relationships between our children and our community, between those we marginalize as old, or disabled or homeless or of color. To acknowledge the importance of all, and to not waste one living soul. We cannot afford to waste. An economic system that creates a reciprocal relationship between all of us. We give and take in kind. We build our communities from an understanding of our strengths, our assets rather than from needs which keep us addicted to the system that disempowers us.

You get the gist. The narrative is not one persons to create. Right now some of the painful cynicism on this site illustrates the deep damage of the current dominant narrative. The one that says, “there will always be war”, “there will always be poverty and hunger” (with a hint of the word, but never uttered, fool).

Rich, you can take it from there…

Rich, how about the concrete idea: The Cuban people and Fidel Castro are not Evil Incarnate?

Change happens when the narrative, the stories we tell ourselves and others, change. The dominant narrative holds the two party system and all that corparatism is about, uneconomic growth and shallow “democracy” (if you can even call it that) in place.

Change the narrative and you change the world.

Changing that narrative can and does happen. It happens here, locally. Short of some major cataclysm, it is only be spreading the viril alternative narrative. It makes the status quo passe, if not entirely unspeakable.

Solidarity around a narrative is the revolution.