What is change?
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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I just knew it – it had to happen sooner or later. My hero, B.O., just appointed Tom Vilsack—an outspoken proponent of big agro business and bio-engineering—to Secretary for Agriculture. Help! The lobbying in Washington to prevent him from getting into office is already under way, and 20,000 signatures have been sent directly to the transition team. Yet, in the midst of it all I can just recognize, in the more lucid neurons of my liberal environmentalist brain, the ‘us and them’ mentality we were all lamenting so much before and during the election creeping in again—the divided America.
And there is more. Another e-mail alarm reached my inbox: “The road-building lobby is trying to convince the incoming administration that building roads should be part of the stimulus package that gets the economy back on track"… So those guys are at it again as well……
Reading all this I feel like I am breathing again the acidic atmosphere of righteous activism versus the corrupt establishment while at the same time knowing perfectly well that there really are forces and powers out there whose only interest is to maintain just that, power.



A friend, John Steiner, recently sent an email that included a quote from the philosopher, physician, theologian, and musician, Dr. 

This is the last installment of our book club examining Aldous Huxley’s 



