On current events and the occupy movement...

It is beginning to crystallise, this preoccupation with the contradictory nature of a capitalist democratic republic. For many years there has been a swelling of opposition and very little in terms of support or clear perspective up until now. The problem with perspective and developed support networks is that it takes time to resolve upon all the manifest issues that are causing concern. Unless the cause of a democracy is established through dialogue, through nurturing of virtue, the long-term impact will always be political upheaval or the further shift away from democracy. Either democracy acts upon a principle of virtue or such invaluable things as community, respect for cilmate and distant neighbors and simple long-term growth are undermined.

This is the issue: in order to expand economically the virtue of the state must diminish, and the collective responsibility of the democratic republic broke down and systematised into linear networks which increasingly have little contact with one another. Growth is the question; how do we establish growth without compromising employment levels, the stability of local communities, the self-sustaining ability of a country acting in the general interest; the answer is not on the principle of material wealth, but moral and virtous wealth. One wealth is sustainable, and the other is not. It is a very simple resolution, but must be taken with determination. Dismantle financial speculation and unstable growth patterns and likewise introduce social growth through direct grassroots democracy; asking where the people would like to make a contribution and providing the means to.

It is about being honest, too:

"In Zuccotti Park I felt a kind of lightening of a weight, a lessening of the awful isolation and powerlessness of knowing we're being lied to and robbed on a daily basis and that everyone knows it and keeps quiet and endures it; the terror of thinking that my own grandchildren will suffer for whatever has been paralysing us until just now," she writes. "I kept feeling these intense surges of emotion – until I saw a placard with a quote from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: 'I am large, I contain multitudes.' And that was when I just lost it and stood there and wept."

- article in the Guardian on the Twentith of October, 2011

For centuries now our economies have fluctuated radically and eventually towards the point in which famine and drought in producing areas no longer affects our economies. Only very recently did this all begin again, and we thought that we were infinite. Infinity in imagination, however, is not infinity in reality; only the earth that we exploit can provide the sort of indefinite growth we stretch out for to find in ourselves but cannot find. We cannot find this indefinite momentum because it doesn't exist. Fossil fuels and nuclear power are our spurs forward for providing as much as we can within this moment, and it is this kind of imperviousness to nature and realities of existence which is truly fatal.

This has been spoken of for decades by many like myself, and I am not alone in the understanding that we cannot continue the way we are. Dialogue must be arranged and, like the people in London and across world capitals at this very moment, we must work towards practicable solutions, solutions based on virtue and internal growth rather than external, manipulative growth which will leave much of this beautiful earth by the wayside if it continues. Genetic modification based upon random science, particle physics based on conjecture and mathematical equations, stock investment based upon the individual's ability not to understand political science but to manipulate it (and this is talent, my friends, not understanding), distancing of individuals from collectivity and a sense of community: this is postmodernism, and I am not afraid. The kind of understanding that is apparent to one person can be understood by all.

Dialogue, my friends. We are all created new and inculcated with something that unnatural and distancing from certain realities. Our reason itself is not the principle by which we should govern or manage our societies or our societies' relationiships with other societies. We have never talked so openly and with such dignity, and this is wherein lies virtue and truth. Clandestine literature, secretive political campaigns, a culture of fear and dependence where their are no two voices and no real discussion. Where people are individuals and act for the wealth of the individual and regard that development as beneficial for society, they do so not out of virtue but out of gratuitous inclinations. It simply isn't in harmony with nature and until we come to the realisation that the humanities, the sciences, the medical discipline, the legislations, even the skills and the outright labours of this world are contributions to an irrational love of life despite its horrors and confusions, we cannot proceed.

It has come to an overwhelming moment, and I feel that it is of a very positive nature.