Democracy depends on an informed and mature population and will not survive in a society that doesn't understand itself in the context of the modern world. It is precisely this lack of self knowing that creates a culture easily manipulated by fear, lies and mass marketing. Muesing-Ellwood suggests we grow up, shift our life focus from "having" to "being," heal ourselves and in so doing nurture the democratic essence of the body politic.
Susan Bright
Poet, author of The Layers Of Our Seeing, Breathing Under Water, Next To the Last Word, House Of the Mother, and Tirades And Evidence Of...