It does take an issue to raise the dead...I too think we are too slow, think Wall-e and Buy'n'large. We have supersized inedible garbage...think the Cheeto'n chief. But will this last? Will a new enlightenment, spirit and science, the awe of a 14.5 billion year old universe. The joy of income and family melded with single-payer health care. A well regulated militia meaning just that. When the best paid are authors, educators, leaders rather than speculators of other's money. Derivative is bad, lessor then, not worth 10 million a year. Where the highest pay faculty/coach at the U of O makes only five times the base pay of a newly hired PhD. That should be enough to have a good life after forty years of work. Where all sources of income are taxed as income. Where there's a tax on trades and transactions of 1% to pay for our civil society. A progressive payroll tax to assure that the working poor contribute but the bulk of the tax base is on corporations. Progressive...that's the ticket!