Writing is a struggle against silence

It seems like I have been struggling. I can't say that it's against silence, per se, but it may be with the persistence of silence. It's persistence in the face of all my cognitive efforts to life myself out of it.
I have been stunned relatively silent by the Hurricane and the government's reaction to it. Sure there's been a few posted comments on a blogs, but no coherent thinking through if the issue. And that's probably because there is no rational, coherent thinking through that can be done. At least from my perspective. This event draws together so many things -- the persistence of poverty (in fact its growth) in "the richest country in the world". The impact of environmental degradation. The growing grim of corporatists, crony capitalism on the government and its seeming intractability. Likewise there's the intractability of many of our societal assumptions -- the frames or meta-assumptions about "what happened" and "what there is to do". Like declaring a "war on weather" -- a city drowns and they put generals and admirals in charge. Now as a practical matter, that's probably the best thing. The military "get it done" ethos seems to be the best match for the challenge at hand.
From an "anticipatory design science" perspective, there's a huge opportunity here. Of course that's a pretty universal statement. I'm just finishing Bucky's meister-werke "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". It reiterated (pre-iterates?) a lot of what I'm already familiar with, but the presentation is so dense and so cogent. And I wonder why, after 35 years, more of this thinking isn't more in the mainstream. Why doesn't there seem to be a widespread inquiry into value that would unleash people into being design scientists -- the recognition of value as being maximized when effort is expended in the service of the common good. I suppose there are economic formalisms that relate comparable notions, but they're like so buried in jargon that they don't do much good. Of course Bucky's multi-hyphenated neologisms and stream of conscious free-association -- weaving together these grand notion in 75-word sentence/paragraphs -- has its own challenges in terms of accessibility.