Forum Post: Of History & the Human Spirit

Time is a funny thing—it certainly seems like history has been speeding up in the past 50 years, as our technological innovations continue to connect, concentrate and expand our collective knowledge base at an exponential rate.

What happens between now and November 2012, the next Presidential election, could have the power to radically change the course of history yet again. The key seems to lie in those restive crowds turning out in ever larger droves under the Occupy banners.

Will we be creative and innovative enough as a people to reinvent ourselves as a nation truly dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—not just for the 1%, and not just for human beings, but for all the magnificent living beings, flora and fauna, with whom we have shared this planet since we all first emerged out of the frozen wastelands of the Holocene thousands of years ago?

Read more at Transition Times: http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/dispatch-from-washington-dc-on-history-and-the-human-spirit/