Wednesday, March 21, 2007
I think we are all equal and should be free...and I'm sorry?
The funniest thing about the concept of freedom is how closely related this concept is with self. Freedom of other people is abstract, in a purely denotational sense. And yet, there are many of us, all over the planet, united by principle with those we have never met in saying that exploitation of the weak and abuse of power is wrong.
Peroid. It doesn't matter why, and
ephemeral and complex economic justifications have not made this a moral way of life, regardless of which billionaire stands to lose a lot of stock if his filthy corporation actually paid their workers a living wage: the reason principles, and philosophy, and books, for that matter, exist. The population of earth is so large that we cannot hope to realistically even try to care for each person on a personal level. But when we begin to cross the line into feeling untouched by their deaths, we should be worried. About ourselves, and about humanity's future as a whole, when you consider that
intraspeciatic bonds are the last ones to break before a species dies out-often in desperation due to lack of food, they eat each other in the end (if you don't believe me, see the history of dinosaurs). If you doubt that we are that close to being complete animals, think again. We have made the leap to sacrificing each other based upon skin hues, dialects, religious beliefs...these aren't even the defensible reasons a lion, for instance, has in killing-the lion 'promises to eat all of his killings' (Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing).
Most ironically of all, the corporate will that pollutes the planet, they see themselves as the most advanced form of humanity, they are rich and powerful in an abstract credit and trade system...yet I've never even met a cat who shits in its own backyard...and doesn't at least bury it. The people of the land are labeled as backward, simple ( as thought this were an insult-oh, to be simple in the true sense of the word) but perhaps they have had it right all along-we need communities, we need
each other, we need food, and water, and air, and
imagination and love and family. No natural urge in me wants or needs money. In fact, the thought of it does nothing so much as make me immediately tense and angry, even sick. Society is at a crossroads-the thinking, the permission we give ourselves to be, has to be renovated-personally, I'm enormously exited...I've been waiting my whole life for this wave of consciousness to land.
so next time you are heckled for being pro environment and pro peace, don't mindlessly consent to "everyone's right to their beliefs" if the main point of those beliefs is to negatively attack
others, (and yes, its still ok to flip off Hummer drivers) A lack of stewardship and thought is killing your home planet-and you don't have to like it!
Posted by Green Scribe at 4:21 PM
