Geopolitical trends: Power & Wealth Concentration: American's sense of powerlessness
Channel: aligzanduh
Date: 2013-03-25

references: https://sites.google.com/a/microtopia.org/microtopia/us-and-california-politics-and-policy/united-states-national-policy/traitors-patriots-the-deluded--the-corrupt What are the trends in our world pointing to? Those of us who follow the news closely are in danger of simply watching scandal and outrage, until we are paralyzed into doing nothing else, complaining as we watch a tidal wave of injustice break over our worlds.
What can we do as individuals to move the world in a better direction?
I find two statements constantly used:
1) "Be the change you seek". The idea that we must first become fully enlightened saints before any justice or redress of the outrages can be obtained. It is important that we find empathy in our hearts, patience, and non violence, even as we scrutinize the outrages occurring daily against the people and the natural systems of the earth, becoming more and more upset.
I believe the powerful interests who have become stronger and stronger in recent times, are still humans that can be reasoned with. Their points of view may be extremely frustrating to try to reshape, but I am not yet at the point where I have given up at all. Just as the powerful have fragmented and harassed the movements that have sought to confront them, they too are vulnerable to division. The ruling class can be split through mass movements and persuasive argument. The statement be the change you seek has the danger of delaying action until vast amounts of damage are done. I would answer that making change happen in the world transforms the person. That to be a revolutionary in times of great injustice is to be spiritually alive, and that any other choice is collusion with basically, evil.
2) The second statement I hear is "What can I do ?".  The sentiment in the United States is one of total personal powerlessness. I asked my father, a former left leaning history professor what one family member could do, he suggested she donate money to a abused animals fund. From my point of view, this would be the worst possible distraction. 

So these 2 questions to me are vital. 

The statements I am about to make are not loosely researched opinion, they are indisputable double referenced facts. I have tried very hard to not make any journalistic mistakes, and when I have done so I have updated the notes section to reflect any errors. I am deeply concerned that the majority of people are not aware of these things.

We look in horror at the snowballing concentration of power. Must I enumerate them? What are the powerful interests that control our society? Briefly the main stream media is no longer engaged in anything resembling what journalism should be. Fox News and MSNBC while actually having very similar ownership and interests, appear to be different, and in some respects are, but more and more they share a common assumption of what the world is. One openly favors the wealthy supporting massive government -- but only in intelligence and defense and police, the guardians of the wealthy classes power.   The other advocates a robust state both in military and police powers, but in using a government that is now captive to large interests to solve