So I recieved a very interesting email yesterday from a fellow named Kerry. He said he had seen something I wrote, and invited me to bring my ramblings here. I had never heard of this site, but after looking around, and especially after finding this Nifty book function, I decided that it looked pretty awesome. So I'm here to try my hand at blogging with you fine folks.
A while ago, an article appeared on Myleftwing called, “Can the Working Class Change the World?†It was rather long and controversial (in the intellectual sense of controversial, not the sensationalist sense), and prompted a good discussion on communism. Just about every view imaginable came out, and the most interesting perspective emerged later in the discussion. I’m way too lazy to pinpoint the exact comment from whence this meme sprouted, but the idea is that previous notions of change and utopia are not enough, that neither the fast revolution of Marxism nor the slow revolution of democratic-socialism will address the problems and injustices in the world. Rather, what is now needed is a psychological sea change, a paradigm shift of the mass populous regarding civilization and humanity’s place in the world.
Here I explore some of the possibilities that may lead to/result from this paradigm shift. I bring up things that are going on now, positive and negative, then try to postulate what things will be like ‘post shift.’ None of this is guaranteed, nor should I be considered an expert about any of these topics, so please correct me or give me extended info if you know something I don’t. Also, I know I just said in the previous paragraph that this is about humanity, but I can't effectively address the whole world with blanket solutions and be taken seriously. So the following is tied to developments in/for the United States. I'm going to do this a little differently than the kos and MLW versions, I'm keeping each page limited to one topic, opting instead for quite a few pages, rather than 3 centralized pages full of ideas. The topics are orgainized differently as well. You'll get 'all the big problem areas' first, then the 'positive catalysts for change,' and finally the 'negative catalysts for change.'
