The system as it is has numbed us, then would have us believe there’s something wrong with us that we feel numb. To be consciously alive today is to recognize how off things are; the anxiety this causes is not dysfunctional, but functional. As long as corporate profits rather than humanitarian values are the organizing principle of our civilization, people and planet will continue to suffer…. and our civilization will continue to decline. The status quo will not disrupt itself. Fundamental change comes from the people, or it does not come about at all.