There is a simple dichotomy that challenges every individual in our society. At the personal level, we are told that we "need to take care of ourselves." Simu

There is a simple dichotomy that challenges every individual in our society. At the personal level, we are told that we "need to take care of ourselves." Simultaneously, at the macro level, we are told that we need to "trust in established institutions." Government, corporate, etc. Institutions that are ever more "globalized." Well, which is it? More and more people are realizing -- re-learning -- that you have to have local control in order to take care of yourself. And, if you can't take care of yourself, what does the rest matter? There's only so far that the rhetoric of "sacrifice" will take a social system (aka society) that is destroying its inhabitants.