Thursday, May 23, 2013

Facing Our Own Mortality, Our Death


Obey, based on Chris Hedges' "Death of the Liberal Class." Facing my own mortality I select the artistic representation of Hedges' work as he says it better than I ever could.



Sadly, a quarrelsome crowd of so called community activists are trying to frame local politics as versions of the corrupt corporate power exposed in the clip. We have the good fortune of dedicated civil servants.  Their reward is character assassination via ideologues uninterested in real solutions or real dialog.  I have been too ill recently to take this on and it breaks my heart. We have very real and eminent corporate power to be fighting, to be monitoring, to be holding accountable. And, our most important goal of recruiting Encinitas citizens to engage in civic activities, to learn about our government and how to make our individual sills contribute to the public good?  How are we doing there?  The council is doing an incredible job.  The angry crowd is driving good people away. Community FAIL.