The loss of a way to practice ahimsa.

How is it possible in our modern world to make the invisible, visible? There are many campaigns that would benefit greatly from Thoreau’s civil disobedience: Wal-Mart, sweat shops, global warming, the list goes on. But how do we develop campaigns that practice suffering? The reason that Gandhi and King were so effective is that their campaigns used their suffering as a catalyst for change. But how do you develop a campaign around such large issues as Global Warming. Especially, since most of the problems of today are not questions of legality, but a question of changing attitudes. I think this is was a problem that the civil rights movement was running into at the end of it. How do you change larger frameworks? How do you change structural or cultural violence? It is so ingrained in our mind and built into the structure of our society how do we change it? These are questions that I don’t know. I think that ahimsa could work but how do we practice self suffering on a idea? What would civil disobedience look like? Especially when it’s not against the law. Marching in DC is not illegal. If it was, would it be more meaningful? I think so.