Re: We the Sheeple

Kelly asks why it is so difficult to get people to think. I think (was that hard?) that people don't want to be bothered with things that they feel like are out of their control. People are busy working, raising kids, contributing to their schools and communities, and generally living life. People have little energy left for the larger concerns that demand our attention and cry out for our action. It seems the machine of global capitalism is worsening this problem, involving people more and more in the minutia of their own lives so that they care less and less about what is going on in their society or the world as a whole. This is not to say that people's lives are unimportant. They are very important. But the kind of society and world we live in are important as well.