intellectual vacuum

http://www.truth-out.org/the-origin-americas-intellectual-vacuum65129

public time

http://www.truth-out.org/living-age-imposed-amnesia-the-eclipse-democratic-formative-culture65144

Too tired to post - but...

Here are several links to articles I have found enlightening lately:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/10/the-least-we-can-do/8228/

http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3310

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2ufhfG/www.truth-out.org/the-opposites-game-all-strangeness-our-american-world-one-article61713

http://www.theatlanhttp://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/22/chilean_economist_manfred_max_neef_ustic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-asking/6288/

Incredible Hubris and Hypocracy

What strikes me about the New Yorker article on the Koch's is the hypocrisy inherent in their approach. They want no one to tell them what they can do with their money, pollution, business, etc... Yet they are dictators of their own world and, if they could chose the laws of the land would undoubtedly dictate to the rest of us. Read the article on this link:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer