I have to agree in many ways with the above. From personal experience of working amongst the changemaker ‘scene’ in San Francisco (as an intern) I have to say that I listened to wild ideas by folk intent on healing the other side of the planet without being prepared to look at the mess outside their own window.

I remember watching an old wheelchair bound veteran on the corner of mission asking for change, noting his lack of legs, as people just walked on by in their fine suits caring more to check their reflections than to see this person.
As I gave him my last few coins noting my regret that I hadn’t more to give (I gave him every penny I had with me, it just so happened it wasn’t much) he smiled and said “Every little helps bro”… I nearly fell over.
I guess he’d never heard of Tesco’s… but there it was, the truth in the instance.

I’m watching a country (Ireland) getting crippled by a damaging mélange of neoliberalist politics and multi-nationals…imports up…prices on the rise…fuel prices and oil prices running together…multis with massive buying power squeezing out the small farmers and local artisan producers, Lidl and Aldi selling veg at 5 and 6cent a kilo over christmas, and the likes of Tesco with their advert: “every little helps” , it does, it helps the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

To stand a chance, to be able to do something about this, we need to stand together, and we absolutely need to organize and collaboratively, cooperatively, make a living and a live-able response. In this our dissent must be a mutual autonomy of collaborative consent to take tools thus far created and use them for the common good rather than in the serving of the personal self.

I know this article is about a particular angle, but it casts a shade that need not take away from what needs to be coordinated cohesive logic of an order capable of dealing with the likes of neoliberalism in its political and economic manifestations.