don't exist, but without showing where they fail there is no way to evaluate whether you are doing what needs to be done or not. (I had a college prof tell me that when I suggested that everything was relative, and I've never forgotten it. And I relearned it again from Myles Horton, and reading the works of Paulo Freire. I learned from them that if you aren't making progress, you are just making excuses).
As I read the writer's words, I couldn't help thinking - it has been over 200 years since the founding of this nation, and we are incarcerating black folk at a rate of 10 to 1 over whites, all the way to dragging them out of grade schools in handcuffs, harassing them on the street, even questioning them when they use their own fucking credit card to buy things that we expect only white people should be able to buy...
We are paying southern bumpkins to go on tv and tell us how wrong homosexuals are to be themselves.
50+ year olds are now killing themselves in record numbers because they have no hope, only despair, and instead of making life better for the people the government is sending the banks that caused our current financial crisis $1.4 trillion a year to make profits for their own pockets, and mandating a Republican-derived health insurance company plan which, while outcomes may vary for users, will almost certainly guarantee greater profits for insurance companies (and their stock valuations appear to agree), while 76% of the people - that's 3 out of 4 of your neighbors, maybe you and certainly me - report living paycheck to paycheck, with NO savings, none, for emergencies or co-pays for insurance because the thieving businesses they work for don't pay enough, if and when the people can get a job. It also means that they are relying ONLY on social security, the same program our president's budget has deemed worthy of cutting, while it ignores the positive benefits that would come from a reduction in our trade deficit with other countries.
And this writer seems to think people are doing what they should, that we are on track, just in the nascent stages of 4...
I don't want to just be disagreeable, 'cause I'm sure Moyer was a nice guy and a deep thinker, but looking at that well-organized chart, it strikes me that at this rate we will all be dead and growing as part of a tree somewhere (if they still have trees here then), and it will be our great grand-childrens's great, great, great, grandchildren who begin the work of moving through 6 to get to 7.
Or maybe I'm just not enough of a cold-hearted son of a bitch to to watch all this suffering while patting people on the head and telling them they are doing a good job while they carry another sign to terrify the wealthy into behaving...
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