Saturday, December 08, 2007

something not right

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by moral code.

--Carl Jung

Dec 8, 2007 4:20:37 PM | ear candy

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it is possible But the hatred goes beyond the maintenance of a simple power to exploit: These people were and are hated for their true difference, for reminding us that our way of living, which we have declared to be the One True Way, is not in fact the only way to live. It is possible to live without capitalism. It is possible to live without the huge gaps between rich and poor, without the sweat of the many providing comforts for the few. It is possible to live without science. It is possible to live without destroying the planet. It is possible to live without penitentiaries. It is possible to live without slavery. It is possbile to live without rape. It is possible to live without child abuse. There have existed cultures without any of these. Derrick Jensen ************ It is possible to live. Nay, it's more likely one will thrive. Without the plastic "learning", the breakdown of family bonds, the handing over of the right to think independently produced by organized factory schooling. Without the physical addiction to television that wastes so many cumulative moments, the ability to pursue dreams, in one's lifetime, not to mention the normalization of consumerism, violence, sexism, and racism. Without the arrogance and ignorance inherent in allopathic medicine. Without the derision of peers for doing things differently. Because we'd all be doing what makes our hearts sing, and allowing, perhaps even requiring, each other to be who we really are, for the betterment of all concerned.
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we know that we know Although we pretend we don't know, we know, and because we know we try all the harder not to know, and to eradicate all of those who do, cursing and enslaving those who see us as we are, and who dare to speak of our nakedness, and cursing and enslaving especially those parts of ourselves which attempt to speak. But speak they will. And because we cannot normally allow them to directly speak about these stories we do not want to hear, the stories must emerge roundabout. Derick Jensen

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