It's because the jobless have a mind

How To Build a People’s Movement by Seth Borgos — YES! Magazine: "The most immediate explanation is that there has been no mass protest by the jobless. Since the beginning of the recession, none of the pillars of the progressive community—organized labor, community organizations, civil rights groups, youth and student groups—have invested deeply in organizing the unemployed. Some online jobless networks have emerged, particularly around the extension of unemployment benefits, but they’ve acquired little focus, mass, or momentum."

The jobless are smart enough to uderstand that the scale and priorities are so askew that jobs are a lost cause without minds that can get around terms like car free, well beyond oil, eco-sustainable, new communities, cyber cities. Not to mention abolition of factory schools and recalibration of professionalism. Oh and the abolition of sprawl. We are playing make believe today. Listen to the talk. We are driving toward the cliff. Lear's cliff.


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