John Michael Greer: Housebreaking the Corporations

One obstacle to constructive change in the face of peak oil I didn

The principle behind that effect is simple enough to grasp. Whenever power has been diffused to the point that no one power center can carry out its agenda without the consent of many others, any well-organized faction becomes a power broker. It can drive whatever bargains it wishes in exchange for supporting the agendas of other factions, and use that clout to defend those positions it considers nonnegotiable.

A good deal of the stalemate that puts necessary reforms out of reach in Washington DC just now is a function of this process; it