Click here for Paul Krugmans oped piece, The Third Depression

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/opinion/28krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


I am posting more about economics and politics than healing or so it seems. The reality is that I believe that you cannot be truly healthy or balanced in an unhealthy and unbalanced society. Our societies throughout the world are unhealthy and imbalanced and are getting more so all the time. We need to face that truth and explore what is causing it. To not address economic and political problems would be to deny the fundamentally toxic effects unfair and repressive economic and political forces have on human beings. By that I mean when people all over the world either have no jobs or jobs that pay very little relative to their needs and can barely feed, cloth and shelter themselves or their families  the medical consequences compounded by the stress levels create or exasperate the majority of the physical and psychological problems we all suffer from in one form or another. Couple this with repressive governments and manipulated and controlled media and you have a situation where physical and mental health are impossible for the vast majority of people.
So what is to be done? I wish I knew. But for starts we can begin to stop living in denial about our societies and their effects on us and our families and start exploring ways we can change things for the better.
We need to pull or heads out of the complacent and fear avoiding sands and face the reality of what is happening to all of us. If you were once radically active but are now living comfortable lives it is time to stop living in your past glories and do more now to help stop the inevitable train wreck ahead. One thing we can do is to help create more alternative media. We need to be alternative media. We need to talk honestly and openly with our friends, neighbors, and strangers in public dialogues. We need to face the truth about what is happening to our families, our societies and our world as a result of the corrupt and amoral casino capitalist societies that dominate our lives. We cannot depend on the media or the politicians to help us. We need to educate and help ourselves and each other. If economist like Paul Krugman are right we are headed for even more dangerous times that we are living through now. The near future could very will bring longer lasting economic hardships for more people and more political repression. The time to prepare for both is growing shorter with every passing day.