Bill Clinton put it well: "The price of doing
the same old thing is far higher than the price of change..." With that
in mind, consider some of the epic changes that could be underway:
*
Now that the wars on drugs have cost so much with so little success,
society may be recalling the costly disaster that was Prohibition trying
to over-legislate humanity's natural appetites [eg. medical marijuana
stores continue to grow]
* Now that society has at long last
stopped chaining the mentally ill and burning those it calls witches, it
may finally be willing to enjoy the fact gays like geniuses may be
different, but no more or less human [eg. for the first time US service
members were authorized to march in gay parades in their uniforms]
*
Now that MotherJones.com revealed the world's tax havens currently keep
$21-32 trillion out of reach of the world's governments, society may
start to reassess the relative power of "big government" and "big
wealth" [eg. those havens hold more than the combined gross national
products of the US & Japan]
* Now that the number of citizen
deaths in Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan have surpassed a million,
society may re-learning the ancient truth: Wars like these are not
fought for popular causes as much as for private interests [eg. the loss
of innocent lives has been granted the antiseptically reassuring
description "collateral damages"]
* Now that Congress is out of
session, society has another reason to wonder about the value of
"elected representatives" '[eg. so far it has sent to the president only
54 bills: 14 to rename post offices, nine to approve real estate
transactions, and six simply to renew current legislation
With luck, some of these conditions may come to an end before we do. Maybe with more than luck. With effort!
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