Even if you tell people they are responsible, that doesn't mean they will do something. Because even if they think they should, they still won't believe they can accomplish anything.

The true "conspiracy" supporting the status quo is the one we all engage in, the conspiracy of conventional thinking.

A widely held belief is that we as individuals cannot change anything. The corporations have too much power. Government never works right. Since you were knee high to an electronic voting machine you've heard all the default truisms that pass for discourse. Yet often discourse stops with statements like these, precisely because they are so universally accepted that few people have a well-reasoned response.

A critical part of propoganda is repetition, and few ideas have been repeated more often than the notion that we are powerless.

We will not be able to bring about the changes we desperately need until we begin to address these underlying, erroneous ideas that have become the landscape for nearly all of our political discourse. These ideas are the impassable wastelands and the unfordable rivers that disable minds and stop change before it can begin.