One of the conditions for radical actions among people is hopelessness. This is particularly dangerous in a society like ours today so heavily focused on this-wordly rewards and meaning generally. If you can't buy it and anyway you don't have any money, what's the point of the show? From there it's not far to go before trouble sets in. A look at the Google current news posting this morning has a string of bombings and killings all over the world such that you tend to forget that the dozen or so bloody stories are what's come up in a world of more than six billion people. A teensy-tiny fraction are involved in such violence. But it might worsen. That prospect seems to be one that "leaders" worry about. Or should worry about.
Obama is a case in point. His SOTU (State of the Union) speech to be delivered tomorrow comes while the Tucson massacre is still fresh and the loss of jobs in America to Asia has finally paid out in millions of desperate workers no longer able to put the "good life" together. Obama will have no option but to be cheerful, positive, and phony, as I see it.
He is also presiding over the wretched failure to rein in Israel; and his determined truckling to the Israel Lobby gets worse not better. See http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/012111a.html. The Israel mess is a time bomb. What to do?
Obama is a case in point. His SOTU (State of the Union) speech to be delivered tomorrow comes while the Tucson massacre is still fresh and the loss of jobs in America to Asia has finally paid out in millions of desperate workers no longer able to put the "good life" together. Obama will have no option but to be cheerful, positive, and phony, as I see it.
He is also presiding over the wretched failure to rein in Israel; and his determined truckling to the Israel Lobby gets worse not better. See http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/012111a.html. The Israel mess is a time bomb. What to do?
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