Maureen, Your observations globally are tremendous helps to me in indentifying themes that resonate both within myself in response to modernity and the developing world values-system based on economics and the market economy. Thank you. It is not only individuals that are disenfranchised - a term specifically relevant to this topic - for it suggests that maybe people are being asked to be franchisees of something that has a very limited set of values - it also suggests that individuals are being asked around the world to put a value on the priceless. Naturally there would be resistance in the world soul. A relationship with a world that devalues the priceless feels like a cage that is getting tighter, for which there is no room for those perhaps most sensitive to something other than the market. It is not only individuals that are becoming disenfranchised, it is the world itself, parts of each of us. There is a part of me that the market cannot value, but it seems to imagine that it can. This is a disrespect of an epic scale. I think the bumpersticker is right, "If you aren't pissed of, maybe you aren't paying attention." The creative channelling of this anger and frustration is a good role for the psychologist in each of us. Could it be a new market is being articulated? A "market" for the priceless? Might art, poetics, actually have something to say about this, something that science, like the market can't ask about? Why might it be that epistemological frames like science are flat-lands? Because they forget the primacy of ontology, of being, of Being. Some kind of new inquiry-animals we must become such that beauty, meaning, wisdom contribute to the pursuit of knowledge in science. Maybe beauty should source scientific endeavor. What would the marketplace look like then? I once joked with Dr. Amedeo Giorgi, who developed a method of psychological inquiry based in Husserl's phenomenology. His method involves identifying discrete meaning-units in a transcript. I said - "Hey, Amedeo, what do you think the basis will be for the next economy?" ..... "What?" he said. "Meaning-units!" We had a good laugh over that one. But I think it might be wise to start thinking in these terms, and visioning and creating a way of relating to a new economy such that the sensitives who are suffering alienation might re-join the human struggle, might even lead the way. Psychologists might well have to learn to become political organizers in the service of global healing. Nice work, Maureen. Craig