The threat to democracy from within at the highest levels is becoming clearer with every passing day- an undeniable reality. Despite the Arab Spring, we live in a time when the ability to sincerely express justified indignation and outrage peacefully at the right time and place in effective ways is systematically discouraged and curtailed not only by powerful circles but also by the ever growing general Angst and uncertainty on a global scale. I think this goes hand in hand with our general inability to celebrate life in simple ways beyond consumerism and corporate interests. We cannot blame everything on others alone such as the unofficial global US empire, nor on our ruling elites in poor countries who are selling our lands to foreign companies. Part of the problem is, of course, that politicians and the so-called free media everywhere, including the free press, have mostly developed now for long time too close and cosy a relationship that is not honestly in the interest of democracy and social harmony. I have no answers to the problems I am raising here. But raise I must. I refuse to assume the role of helpless isolated victims. Human solidarity is required and can effect change if we change our own fixed perceptions and attitudes.