Thank you Professor for your well stated piece. The rich have bought our gov't and our politicians and we need to use our full humanity to come up with a plan to change our gov't. The Mahatma was so smart at strategic plans to disrupt the status quo, always peaceful (at least on the protesters side). We need our smartest to come up with ideas to do just that. No time for apathy or discouragement.
so true. Twain was so far ahead of his time...his recently released bio, after 100 yrs delay at his insistence, is so insightful as to how liberal and enlightened he was. And it makes the irony of the ongoing militarism of the USa that much more acutely painful as he so clearly demonstrated the futility and mendacity surrounding our involvements in Cuba and the Philippines at the turn of the century. A hundred years and no greater insight by those in power and greed as to the hypocrisy of our spoken ideals and the darkness of our actions...Rejected Spain not to offer peasant freedom and economic gain, but corporate hegemony, wealth, and plunder...same as it ever was...
It's disheartening that ignorance is celebrated by fame; Christianity and the founding of the country are tortured by pretzel logic, twisted beyond all hope of recognition (Tea Party needs to read Matt 25); the Enlightenment (named for a Reason), is ignored and replaced by Medieval trappings of fear and superstition; Science and Religion do not need to be in conflict, at all, but are forced by prejudice of the illogical to stand at opposition, to claim opposing corners, squared off in a diatribe of misrepresentations long ago dismissed by all but those that require a 'black vs. white' universe, colored at every turn by unforgiving provincialism. Jefferson, if able, is spinning at near the speed of light at the backward ignorance of his beloved Republic. 'Judge not that you be not judged' falls before the wrath of those that claim divine insight and even 'answers', who can throw up the words 'traitor', 'country hater', 'liar', to those that simply disagree, who might want to preserve a safety net for those not able to manipulate the waters of this post-enlightenment age, or not rush into an ill begotten war of economic origins...disheartening, and frightening...
Thank you Professor for your well stated piece. The rich have bought our gov't and our politicians and we need to use our full humanity to come up with a plan to change our gov't. The Mahatma was so smart at strategic plans to disrupt the status quo, always peaceful (at least on the protesters side). We need our smartest to come up with ideas to do just that. No time for apathy or discouragement.
so true. Twain was so far ahead of his time...his recently released bio, after 100 yrs delay at his insistence, is so insightful as to how liberal and enlightened he was. And it makes the irony of the ongoing militarism of the USa that much more acutely painful as he so clearly demonstrated the futility and mendacity surrounding our involvements in Cuba and the Philippines at the turn of the century. A hundred years and no greater insight by those in power and greed as to the hypocrisy of our spoken ideals and the darkness of our actions...Rejected Spain not to offer peasant freedom and economic gain, but corporate hegemony, wealth, and plunder...same as it ever was...
It's disheartening that ignorance is celebrated by fame; Christianity and the founding of the country are tortured by pretzel logic, twisted beyond all hope of recognition (Tea Party needs to read Matt 25); the Enlightenment (named for a Reason), is ignored and replaced by Medieval trappings of fear and superstition; Science and Religion do not need to be in conflict, at all, but are forced by prejudice of the illogical to stand at opposition, to claim opposing corners, squared off in a diatribe of misrepresentations long ago dismissed by all but those that require a 'black vs. white' universe, colored at every turn by unforgiving provincialism. Jefferson, if able, is spinning at near the speed of light at the backward ignorance of his beloved Republic. 'Judge not that you be not judged' falls before the wrath of those that claim divine insight and even 'answers', who can throw up the words 'traitor', 'country hater', 'liar', to those that simply disagree, who might want to preserve a safety net for those not able to manipulate the waters of this post-enlightenment age, or not rush into an ill begotten war of economic origins...disheartening, and frightening...