Nobody wants to get involved...

...and certainly most people believe that there is little to know point in trying to change anything.  At least that's where middle of the road aging baby boomers that I know seem to be at.  And I'm talking about people who look at things from a pretty progressive as well as privileged position.  Not over-privileged, mind you, but doing O.K. enough to not feel personally that threatened by the deteriorations all around them.  But angered at the policies and their effects that are enacted by or on behalf of the elites.
So what to do to organize.  The professionals are all making a good career of writing or running an .org in "opposition" to the mainstream something something.  But to what end.  The ongoing rightward descent and propagandized docile acceptance of that reality is the lemming like populace the citizenfy has decayed and or stagnated into.  And here we all are in the years.  Better know how to grow some of your own food if things get much nuttier.  I mean, if the Eurozone crisis spirals the world economy into a double dip great Recession" how will that one be bailed out.  The banks have gotten there's, and the other oligarchic sectors seem impervious to any major shocks, so it will be more people suffering and austerity and "trickle down voodoo" as yet another convulsion of wealth re-distribution lurches toward the upper sectors of the economy.  Woo-hoo.  It's the best of all possible worlds.  Hope that the Big Boxes or Burger Mills are hiring, cuz ain't noplace else going to be needing the likes of most of us.  Like I've said before, I think we are all bozos on this globalization bus, and unless you are into hatcheting a lot of other peoples lives or removing a few mountaintops for your personal edification and career enhancement- and of course your individualist "job creators" bottom line... well hell, who needs you.