Saturday morning
Peter is reading this book called Beyond Transcendence. It's about the Law and how Zen can bring fresh insight into the way we understand Law. I think it is specifically Law, not justice. He author also looks at Heidigger, Levinas and Wittgenstein. I know nothing for the former and the latter i know mostly from a film by Derek Jarman. I'm hoping to read the book when he is done with it. It starts off with the Chinese ideogram 'sing', meaning heart. This character is used in loads and loads of Chinese words to make new ones. And it talks about the use of the image for a language and how, in this way, not only is the verbal conveyed, but the non verbal as well.
I admire the people who actually struggle to make sense of the world. What compels them with tiny puny tools, like language, to attempt to make sense of the senselessness?
I still cannot get over the horror of those two children who tortured those other kids in Edmington. It is Lord of the Files, but the awfulness is a thousand times multiplied. Do human beings have no moral compass, are we not born with an innate tenderness? to care and nurture things? Heck, is it not in our interest to?
And i sit and go, what can i do? What do i do? Is there anyone there who can say what can one person do?
Perhaps we can say to governments stop fighting your stupid wars which bring us nothing except more people who hate us. Stop lining the pockets of bankers, which result in massive poverty which gives rise to a neglected and resentful class. Stop pandering to the few and start caring for the many. Call the bluff on these inethical obsence overpaid horrors. Tell them they can go elsewhere. Go to the Cayman Islands, go to Uganda. Go then. You want to leave. Leave. We'll be better off without you. You need us. You need the sweat of our brow. We are not working for you any longer. Just go.
Allow people to start taking responsibility again with their own lives. Stop molly coddling them, allowing us to continue with our stupid excuses about why we cannot look after our own families. Why we cannot stop drinking, taking drugs, having enough money for cable and cigarettes, but not enough to send a child to a piano lesson. Start empowering people to do what they must to lead fulfilled, contented lives, instead of bankrolling our miseries and addictions.
Or perhaps a fulfilled contented population is not what they want. Perhaps it serves their interest to keep us in this state of vegetative consciousness. Fodder for the front lines and the factory and the cheap labour. To have us mortgaged to our deaths so that we cannot create something new.
I admire the people who actually struggle to make sense of the world. What compels them with tiny puny tools, like language, to attempt to make sense of the senselessness?
I still cannot get over the horror of those two children who tortured those other kids in Edmington. It is Lord of the Files, but the awfulness is a thousand times multiplied. Do human beings have no moral compass, are we not born with an innate tenderness? to care and nurture things? Heck, is it not in our interest to?
And i sit and go, what can i do? What do i do? Is there anyone there who can say what can one person do?
Perhaps we can say to governments stop fighting your stupid wars which bring us nothing except more people who hate us. Stop lining the pockets of bankers, which result in massive poverty which gives rise to a neglected and resentful class. Stop pandering to the few and start caring for the many. Call the bluff on these inethical obsence overpaid horrors. Tell them they can go elsewhere. Go to the Cayman Islands, go to Uganda. Go then. You want to leave. Leave. We'll be better off without you. You need us. You need the sweat of our brow. We are not working for you any longer. Just go.
Allow people to start taking responsibility again with their own lives. Stop molly coddling them, allowing us to continue with our stupid excuses about why we cannot look after our own families. Why we cannot stop drinking, taking drugs, having enough money for cable and cigarettes, but not enough to send a child to a piano lesson. Start empowering people to do what they must to lead fulfilled, contented lives, instead of bankrolling our miseries and addictions.
Or perhaps a fulfilled contented population is not what they want. Perhaps it serves their interest to keep us in this state of vegetative consciousness. Fodder for the front lines and the factory and the cheap labour. To have us mortgaged to our deaths so that we cannot create something new.
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