Today for example a group of DC university student "activists" had a meeting with the Sudan Embassy Ambassador ostensibly to convince him to end the genocide. There were about 20 0f them. Most arrived late. Their attire, posture and demeanor said, "F--- man, kill the dude's if you want, I've gotta go party." Shorts, headphones, late, casual, jocular....
Oh my God, these children are walking corpses / consumers. They are screwed into The Matrix and loving it. Never has the status quo devoured our young at such an early stage in their lives. This is the mark of the Beast; a precurser of the end-times.
No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others..." Reflections on War, Simone Weil
Complete quote: "But the impotence one feels today—an impotence we should never consider permanent—does not excuse one from remaining true to oneself, nor does it excuse capitulation to the enemy, what ever mask he may wear. Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains The Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."
Have you organized a group? Have you met with the Sudan Embassy Ambassador? I don't think so. You sit criticizing others for DOING something instead of ENCOURAGING and PRAISING them. Besides, Do you really believe Jesus would be so hypocritical? Do you really believe Jesus would sit around all day starving himself and writing blogs? Check your bible.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. Sitting around. Hmmmm. That is not what it feels like. Oddly, it is much more demanding, but similar in nature, what I am doing now, to the organizational development work in the computer industry for which I was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
Just criticizing? Hmmm. I don't think so. Who has done 1/100th as much encouraging as my site DarfurDyingForHeroes.blogspot.com.
Also dear friend and heroic activist(?) for Darfur,
ReplyDeleteOne of the dreadful characteristics indicating this spiritual death we have visited on our children is exactly your response: 'Hey, at least I worked hard,' they would say! My point? These children do not understand that this is about Genocide, attrocities visited on OTHERS. They think it is about THEM doing stuff generally in the vague direction of stopping a genocide and no matter how inadequate, weak, tepid, certainly inadequate - they think themselves heroic and want the praise of a hero. We adults have allowed these children to have a grossly distorted notion of what real activism is; and who it is about.
Explain? Imagine a mother with her child in her arms carried from a car wreck, badly damaged. The Dr., a clod (like me?) admonishes her, "You should have gotten here quicker!" Hmmm. What is the mother going to do / say? Is she going to focus her attention away from her child's needs to her own in defense of herself; as you just did; as these dead child InActivists are doing? Not if she is a relatively healthy, mature and complete human being. NOTHING will take her focus off the damaged, needy one, in this case her child.
If my motives that are behind my harsh criticism and alarm are to disparrage then I am right to be criticized. If my motives are to awaken we adults so that we can stop killing our children's spirits / hearts, and even to awaken these InActivists that they might beign to really help Darfur, and not just pleasure themselves, then I am to be praised.
By the way, are there achievements in your life that qualify you for such criticism of me? Somehow that would not be my guess: You show surprisingly little understanding of how significant change is caused, what it takes; yoou show great defensiveness; cowardice hiding behind anonymous criticism; and little concern or compassion for Darfur. Maybe I'm incorrect.
Your brother, Start Loving