Words and actions

This discussion seems to have moved on from reflections on how our self-descriptions shape our impact to what that impact should be.  What kind of world does the field formerly known as Arts and Culture want to construct?  And what kind of systems will need to be created to move beyond our current state of fragmentation?

A recurrent theme also seems to be a perceived need to protect our expressive lives from rapacious corporate dominance or carelessness.  In mid-conversation the Supremes change the game by ruling that the corporate voice has been unduly restrained.  In this morning's Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page cites the irony that the 14th Amendment, intended to ensure freedom and citizenship for slaves, has provided the legal basis for corporate personhood and the steady amplification of corporate power, since 1886.  That feels totally germane to this discussion -- and also hopelessly beyond the scope of a week-long blogathon amongs arts types.  What steps can we take that are within our existing, mostly-strained, capacity?