Out on Bail...or Baal?

From Brian McLaren at Deep Shift

The economic meltdown is yet another piece of evidence that "everything must change." Reality is trying to tell us once again that our way of life is insane and unsustainable. Sadly but predictably, a lot of experts want to "fix" the crisis without learning what it is trying to teach us.

The one trillion dollar bailout package that President Bush is promising could have wiped out the last traces of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and squalor from the face of the Earth - if only our global leadership prioritised the poor with the same level of urgency as the financial crisis.

Ironically, what Osama Bin Laden failed to do on September 11, 2001, we may have done to ourselves in the seven years since: bring our system crashing down upon itself in an orgy of greed and action without forethought. If we've been waiting for another wake-up call about the need for deep change and a new story to live by, I think the phone is now ringing.