-- WalkerNewell - 26 Feb 2009

We are all coming to class twice a week, listening to Eben's version of what is going on in the world around us, nodding our heads, challenging his ideas, and contributing our own. But is this just an intellectual exercise? I feel that it will end up being only that for a number of us. I also wonder whether the class believes in the "dark" reality Eben teaches, and whether you think that you are either capable of or willing to "create an organization" for yourselves and the community at large.

I am inspired by the ideas, and to a large extent I am consuming the persuasive Kool-Aid that I've been given to drink, but I'm still unsure of how to proceed. I'm also being hindered by my tendency not to betray any idealism or radicalism in public, for fear that I will be ridiculed for it.