One corollary example: how can we as a nation constructively use the creative power which is challenging the inertia and security of our nation's political ego?

How best can we face the challenges head-on in order to contribute wisely to this process of social, political, and economic change?

How do we avoid pitfalls like the twin evils of either a dependence on or a return to the past, or an over-radical transformation which would destroy that part of the past which is essential to our future?

And finally, are the 2 party partisans going to be able to grow beyond and transcend their individual political egos which are so immersed in the politics of hate (of Bush/Cheney or of the Clintons, for example), and do what is in the best interests of the nation and the world?

And will we be able to move beyond the current obsession with celebrity driven politics--remember, even Rush Limbaugh and
Al Franken are celebrity political operatives--and get to work on meaningful reforms and changes to the government and the current Big Money/Big Media political system driving it, which causes this terrible, cyclical political amnesia to recur every four years when we are force fed a meaningless horse race of celebrity candidates?