I Wanna Blog

Not to turn this into a blog about blogging, but I think that one of the greater purposes that blogs can serve is in providing a place for people to keep talking about the things that need saying. The things that bear repeating, until they fall on the right ears or enough ears for change to occur. And not just any old change. Directed change. Meaningful change. Change that makes the world better, and no, not just for some but for many.

For example, the corporatization of America concerns me; heck it frightens me. (Enough to use a word that isn’t a word yet.) It can’t be good for the country (or the world for that matter) to have unaccountable entities having so much power. According to the Corporate Accountability Project, “Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.”

This week's Sojourners article is about two corporations: one that enhanced it’s community and one that sucks the life out of them.

With their money, corporations are able to lobby and buy our representatives in a way you and I never could and consequently have more say in government than we do. The First Amendment rights of corporations eclipse the First Amendment rights of the people.

That's cause for fright. But I think there are things we can do, or not do as the case may be. For starters, we could not shop at WalMart. We can make a point to buy the things we need from local merchants. In fact, we can make a point of buying the things we need and even the things we want but definitely not the things we don’t need or want.

I’m looking forward to reading John Perkins’ book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. I heard an interview with him on Air America Radio and both he and the book sound interesting.

That’s a start.