The headgame of politics goes on whether the Reds or the Blues reign. The poor still starve, children are still sold for sex, the bombs fall, the people still sleep. It is a frightening thing to enter that place. Who dares go there? There is no real truth without its inclusion.
There is so much we don’t attend to. We are distracted by the noise and can’t hear the truth that has no voice. Listen. Be still. Give it voice. Your voice.
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We’ve been listening to a podcast about the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. What happened when the bomb dropped 70 years ago was explained in great detail. Why are men so fascinated with destruction…
You mean the podcast or the bombings
Just in general. So much so that they obsess with telling about it. It’s as if there is some kind of hold over us when we study those things. The bombs. Living in Utah we’re not very far away from where they tested them here. And even without the widespread damage and destruction, cancer rates in Utah for people who were around then are through the roof. The podcast said we had to do it first because the Germans were too close to making it work themselves… There seems to be no logical answer or moral answer to that comment.
Its bullshit. They sent the boat for the germans to blow up and knew about the attack on pearl harbor. They wanted war darlin. But they always have to jinn up the people to fight them. And there is a perversity to humans that is difficult to liok at individually. Easier to name the evil in others. Then there can be war. Thats part of the silence no ine dares disturb
“And there is a perversity to humans that is difficult to liok at individually. Easier to name the evil in others.” Interesting comment in light of what we were talking about in Sunday School this morning — the Sand Creek Massacre when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children in November 1864. The leader of that Cavalry was a Methodist pastor. We’ve been talking about how the Methodist church as a whole needs to ask forgiveness for that act. We came to the conclusion that there’s no such thing as corporate repentance, that it’s an individual act. It’s almost the opposite of what you’re talking about. I’m wondering how they relate, or if they do…
Perhaps the sin of the individual is giving up authority to the state or the church or whatever. Individuals give the power to the corporate structures. They are us. And it is individuals who do the acts which we complain about. It is typically not the order givers who do them but the followers. “Just following orders” it seems is not a defense.
That’s a very, VERY good point! And one we didn’t stumble on in class yesterday. I’m going to bring that up Sunday. Thank you for that perception. Very helpful.
When we give away our authority to the state we sometimes feel its not our responsibility what the state does. But in truth we are the state because we constitute it and give our consent actively or passively. The current political debate is just a distraction. People fighting over which version of the state is better. It assumes and gives away the question as to whether the state is valid or acting in moral ways. In some ways its no different than having a fierce competition as to who will be class president at a high school. Doesn’t really matter. It does not effect in the least the primary functions of the institution.
Good point. That ought to give them something else to chew on. For my contribution — since we’ve been talking about whether there is or isn’t such a concept as white privilege, I said we weren’t directly responsible for those things that happened when this country was young, but we’ve certainly benefited from those acts. That’s as close as I could get to where I thought the author was coming from. Do you have an opinion about whether that is a valid concept — white privilege?
Some white people have privilege. Also some black people have priviledge. Has little to do with color but rather class.
The whole idea that slavery in the usa was somehow unique in history is totally bogus in my mind. It has existed from ancient times. It still exists. If anything the usa made laws against it in the physical form. But with the fed and the current money system worldwide it has morphed into financial debt slavery. Serfs and share croppers were all euphemisms for slave. Now they are called tax payers. Income tax does not pay for roads and such. It goes to the Fed to pay interest on the money they create out of thin air.
Hm… Well, in truth there are all KINDS of “privilege.” Like class privilege, skinny privilege, male privilege, etc. A white OR black person born into a wealthy family is going to have an easier life than a poor white or black person. White privilege is different. There have been several studies done about hiring practices the last couple years. Two resumes, same qualifications, perhaps even the same universities, BUT, if the name sounds black, the studies have shown that those resumes are not looked at with the same scrutiny. The studies were then confirmed by interviewing the folks doing the hiring for the companies. For example, David Thomas as opposed to Deshawn Washington. Guess who got hired…
The idea of a job is indentured servitude yo an ower or corporation. It is creating wealth for the owner. We don’t call them masters anymore. In europe they were landed gentry with titles.
Not much different except the lables
Well I agree with the slavery/debt slavery part. Neither of those things were dreamed up by America. Even in Bible days people actually sold themselves into slavery to pay for debts. But I do believe that at least SOME money goes for maintenance.
Not income tax. But there are hundreds of other taxes
http://www.devvy.com/notax.html
While I agree with your comment about jobs, that’s side stepping the fact of racial discrimination in hiring practices I was talking about. 😉
I don’t really know personally. I hear such things. But I am discriminated against because of my accent. I think it has to do with corporate culture. They don’t care about color as much as who will make them money. There are not many white rappers. Are they being discriminated against? The corporations may be the new plantations. Nothing has changed in function only lables.
I have hired and fired black and white and mexician people. My thought process had nothing to do with their color but whether I believed they would fit into our culture and accomplish the tasks.
I have not hired people cause they were too “white” uppity for our rural county and could not relate to the folks here.
YOU have a accent??? Seriously? I can understand you just fine when we talk! LOL It never occurred to me you had an accent. 😀 I’ll have to go read your article when I get to a stopping point today. I’m tackling THE LIST. You’re a peach! You know that, right? 😀
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The truely privileged don’t work for money whatever color they are. They make it. Make it out of thin air. Everybody else works on their plantation
Well that was an interesting article. Can I say I’m not surprised? Truth is I think we’d all be totally blown away if we knew how the government actually works. How can people retire from Washington politics and OTHER jobs and just ignore what goes on there?
Cause we are sheep to them. But its no different than it has always been.
The servants rule
The SERVANTS rule?
What do the ruling class call themselves? Public servants.
Oh… Gotcha.