A quoted section from the LINK OF THE DAY, "BioRegionalism":

"This is the key point: full democracy means the end of the social mode we have called
"civilization." It means the end of big-money rule. It means the end of aristocracy and the end
of powerless peasants. It means dignity and power for each and every human being. In this
sense, full democracy is a return to tribal life. But since there cannot be a return to tribal life in
any complete sense, a viable democracy must be a fresh invention. Our entire vision of a next
mode of human society must be a fresh invention. Any vision which sees no further than a
moderated civilization is in collusion with our current hierarchical tyranny over nature and over
most of humanity.
This collusion with the tyranny of industrial civilization does not characterize only the
political right. The political left can be described as favoring the moderation of the tyranny of
civilization. Labor unions, for example, moderate corporate power and thereby moderate
injustice toward working people. The vision of a typical labor union is not the end of civilization
nor even the end of corporations. Labor unions are part of corporate practice and they are
dependent upon corporate practice as well as a moderation of it. When corporations pass from
the stage of history, labor unions pass away as well. Life beyond the corporation will mean the
creation of economic institutions in which owners, managers, and workers are all the same
group of people.
The entire round of liberal politics is for the time being an important moderation of the evils
of civilization, but for the long haul liberal politics cannot provide a solution to the ecological and
human-justice crises that are increasing every year because of the expanding powers of
civilization. The question is not, "How can civilization be saved?" The question is, "How will
civilization end?" The overriding alternatives are: (1) will humanity end civilization by creating a
viable replacement? or (2) will the Earth end civilization through its inability to support this
obsolete mode of human living? The political left, right, and center are all forms of collusion
with saving civilization, a hopeless and self-destructive objective."

-The essay goes on to describe what it terms "Bioregionalism"-- a "Middle Way"-- as the solution betwixt the Tribalism/Civilization extremes...

Highly Recommended. Worth reading closely, I think.

-Z. MoonDog (HOWL! -and pass on the 'blog!)