General Discussion

And it is a subject that we need to keep talking about, because that's the best way to come up with solutions to the mess we're all in.

If anyone wants to read a sci-fi novel that is eerily prescient about our situation today, please check out Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano." It was published in 1952, the year I was born.

And if you'd like doses of practical inspiration and ideas being put into action, read Yes! magazine. It is amazing.

I think one way to deal with the problems we are facing is to band together in mutual help groups and/or communal living situations. In the past 50 years we have become isolated through television, video games, the internet. We have lost our sense of community.

When I was a kid in the early 60s, every kid in the neighborhood played out on the street, and we learned to interact through trial and error, plus the boundaries set by our parents and teachers.

Too many parents don't bother to parent these days, from what I see. You never see kids playing outside any more. Kids are becoming increasingly clueless about how to interact with other people, and this is reflected in our polarized politics.

DU is one of the rare places where we've managed to create a community. We need to find more ways to create the communities that will make it possible to have a better future for the 99%.