This season there is something big attempting to take shape in the national consciousness. It stems from a long developing sense that we, not only as a nation, but as a society and a culture, have become disconnected to something intuitively essential, something truly important.
We look at Egypt with a sense of pride and a bit of envy. We look at what's happening now in Madison Wisconsin and ask - is this a flash in the pan or a harbinger of a wider movement? Will it have staying power, or will the necessity of returning to making a living cause the energy to dwindle and peter out. It takes a tremendous amount of conviction and collective effort to overcome the entropy of the status quo.