Critical Mass

Ideas grow, like other living things. Vulnerable at first, an idea, sometimes slowly sometimes quickly (and sometimes not at all), then takes on dimension and strength until it attains maturity at which point it becomes a point of common wisdom. From then forward, the idea functions like gunpowder awaiting a spark or like the night sky awaiting the sun's appearance. Choose your simile.

One idea that has now entered its stage of maturity could be formulated as follows: The people of the United States are no longer willing to tolerate the arrangement of American society in which an ignorant but vocal minority obstructs the necessary turning of American society toward peace, justice, equality, compassion and cooperation.


The question is now just this: What steps are to be taken to harness this nearly universally held sentiment and produce the desired transformation of our social arrangement? Mounting a movement to rewrite the American Constitution or specific laws is not the answer for the moronic minority would have the same strangle-hold on that process as it does on the current governmental dynamic. What, then, is the alternative?


One model for such a transformation of society is to be found in Germany, where impoverished regions have introduced their own currencies, local alternatives to the euro. Much of the business activity in these regions is conducted in the local currency which attracts the participation of individuals and businesses not only because the currency supports local commerce only but also by virtue of the fact that a percentage of the total goes to local schools, public services and businesses that are deemed to contribute to the general welfare. 

What will be needed in order to make this sort of economic secession succeed in the United States is the morality-based equivalent of an Emily's list.