The Electrate Professor

I rediscovered a Gordon Lightfoot tape from 20+ years ago (those old TDK's had a life-long guarantee and they weren't fooling around!) and have been listening to it over and over again. One of the songs is "Don Quixote," and it occurred to me that there should be a wandering band of ascetics called the "Quixotics." What we need are more people willing to tilt at windmills, to take on the behemoths of MNCs (Multinational Corporations), to do the impossible, to carry the torch of idealism forward. Perhaps a group of "engaged" monkish types who take on the world, trying to make it a better place.

Today, at a "peace celebration" at Gar Park in Haverhill, Dave Dunn of the Peace Alliance told of legislation to create a National Department of Peace. See the Department of Peace Campaign or The Peace Alliance for more information about that--and to join the newly engaged wandering band of Quixotics who will proudly stand up against the impossible forces aligned against a better world.