No outrage.

With each passing week, the government that leads us is exposed, in yet another incident or maneuver, as arrogant, power-hungry and working against the interests of the citizenry. Yet, there remains no outrage.

Politicians baldly change positions to curry votes and positive media coverage only to sponsor or vote for legislation that is opposite the interest of those who give them their job. They mount strawmen to knock down when it makes them appear to be strong and watchful. They write legislation under deceptive titles or lacking enough merit to be able to stand on its own, instead amending it to an easily passed bill of totally unrelated nature. They perform quid pro quo, minimally disguised, for campaign contributions. Yet, there is no outrage.

Corporations control huge chunks of our activities and they control most of the levers in government, if not directly, through money. Yet there remains no outrage.

The media, deregulated, profit-driven businesses now, dance the tune of their corporate masters. When shown to be biased and lacking ambitions that would give the citizenry the information it needs to make informed decisions, there is no outrage.

The environment, though weakly understood by most individuals is under constant stress and abuse by our sheer numbers and our profit-oriented and self-comfort drugged culture. Most Americans see and feel the devastation but few feel as if anything they do will have much impact. Yet, there remains no outrage.

We see individuals all around us who are unhealthy and ignorant in the cause of that ill health. We look to our medical experts who cannot or will not diagnose our maladies and are willing to give us something, anything, to alleviate our symptoms under the guise of a cure. Acute becomes chronic and there is no outrage.

The original aims of the people who fought to separate this country from the heirarchical monarchy and vested corporatism of two and half centuries ago are daily being smudged out. Yet there is no outrage.

This civilization has already seen its zenith unless there is outrage. Outrage from the citizenry to reconnect with its government and to form a life-view capable of incorporating all the people under it as important members. Outrage sufficient to raise the individual from his comfort induced stupor so he joins his voice with another. Outrage enough to interrupt the cycle of government midterm. Outrage enough to reclaim the direction of a civilization's dreams and make them our own once again.

The world will go on without us. Even if we cripple or destroy its ability to support life as we know it, the earth will continue to spin and orbit the sun even as a lifeless rock until such time as the sun consumes it in its own dying days. We can end our days fighting other races and scrabbling for ever more scarce resources. Or we can forge another way out. We must express outrage enough to wake up our fellow citizens and change what we can change today and lay groundwork for tomorrow.