In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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The MBTA web site is down... but the trains are on time!
Wed, 2011/01/12 - 9:21am — Benjamin MelançonThe clouds graced New England with another foot of snow (though the previous foot had mostly melted).
I dug out the car and drove N to the station. I'd checked mbta.com first to see if the Worcester-Framingham line was even running and the site was down, not there at all.
But drove the Kia through the mess, dropped her off, and the train was there, right on time, by the time i got back from the post office (where i was the first to walk up the steps; fortunately the door was open; unfortunately the P.O. box was empty).
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We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.