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offer some alternative ways of thinking about the world that we have been tumbled into. There are probably many more steps that we need to take in order to arrive at a bus stop where there’s a place for everyone, but this is a beginning. We start by defining ourselves and the inhospitable environment that encompasses us; then we take small, human steps to counter our vast opponents. Not to worry—viruses are the smallest lifeform we know of but they can fell the greatest of beasts. We need to become viral, to have many meetings of
The Twelve, to join unions and exercise real democratic processes. We need to define a twenty-first-century education and tell the truth at least once a day. We need to define class , place ourselves within that definition, and make our allegiances accordingly. Maybe we could benefit from the tool of psychotherapy and definitely we should work on our political convictions every day. We must resurrect the democratic process and come to an understanding of how the economic infrastructure creates our minds. We must know what the Cost of living in this world actually is—and also the value of our labors. We have to understand what we’re worth as people and as citizens of this great land and, consequently, we need to see our interconnectedness as a kind of genius that trumps any Harvard grad or wealthy wannabe.
    I believe that these steps will lead to others and that—as thousands and millions of us begin to tramp toward the goal of truth, liberation, and equality—a road shall appear beneath our feet that the rest of the world will have to follow.

Copyright © 2011 by Walter Mosley
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Twelve steps toward political revelation / Walter Mosley.
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