My own thoughts, Janie, is that this medium, the internet, is our microphone... It is the only medium/media that the corportaist/industrialists haven't figured out how to silence... They own and control the public airwaves... They own the newspapers, the magazines... This is how they have brainwashed so many people into thinking that poor people are lazy, cheaters and not of worth... These are "values" that have carefully and skuillfully been **instilled** into the masses thru bombardments of misinformation... They play on people's fears and turn those fears around into mistrust and hatred... This is what the corportae media has done and it has done it well...

But...

... thru the internet the misinformation campaign that "Boss Hog" has unleashed on our population over the last 30 years is slowly loosing it's staying power as more and more people are understanding both our broken economy as well as our broken system of governing...

This is where I find hope...

I also find hope in the 20 somethings that I've met at anti-war rallies... There is a large number of kids who have escaped the mindlessness of "No Child Left Behind" or were just ahead of it's terrible consequences on dumbing down our children's critical thinking and cretive skills... Yeah, these kids understand... They have seen thru "Boss Hog's" PR campaign and his lies...

So, yeah, I feel change in the air...

And I am hopefull...

And lastly, yes, it can't be said enough that this is all about our collective values and how we collectively share with one another...

Reources are ***not*** unlimited and with that fact firmly in focus, a family of four does not need a 10 bedroom house... This is wastefull... The planet cannot sustain this level of obscene consumption even if it is done ny only the upper 5%... There are rich people in certain areas of the country where water is scarce who consume over a million gallons of water a year keeping their landscaping watered just becuase they have the money to do so... That's what I mean about "values"... They shouldn't be able to do that just becasue they can afford to do so...

...and after the coming revolution people won't have a midset that they have a right to consume as much as they ***want***... The entire ide of ***want*** will have a new definition...

Bobert