It has been very interesting to read and listen to the works of Matt Kadane.  His music has an unusual blessing for the post-industrial age—it has a melody and humanity in it in a time when it is an embarrassment to show human fragility.

There is much talk about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.   Opinions are divided and some politicians even go so far to suggest calling him a ‘terrorist”.  In his recent interview with Time when asked if he considered himself practicing civil disobedience, he has said that he is practicing civil obedience.

From the recent postmodern history we have seen that the old ways of dealing with violent conflicts through the single state power proved to be in most cases violent and tragic. In the new multi-polar world of the 21st century, accepting diversity and equality of nations becomes a more important concept.