http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/the_careerists_20120723
Christopher Browning’s collection of essays, “The Path to Genocide,”
notes that it was the “moderate,” “normal” bureaucrats, not the zealots,
who made the Holocaust possible. Germaine Tillion pointed out “the
tragic easiness [during the Holocaust] with which ‘decent’ people could
become the most callous executioners without seeming to notice what was
happening to them.” The Russian novelist Vasily Grossman in his book
“Forever Flowing” observed that “the new state did not require holy
apostles, fanatic, inspired builders, faithful, devout disciples. The
new state did not even require servants—just clerks.”
“The most nauseating type of S.S. were to me personally the cynics
who no longer genuinely believed in their cause, but went on collecting
blood guilt for its own sake,” wrote Dr. Ella Lingens-Reiner in
“Prisoners of Fear,” her searing memoir of Auschwitz. “Those cynics were
not always brutal to the prisoners, their behavior changed with their
mood. They took nothing seriously—neither themselves nor their cause,
neither us nor our situation. One of the worst among them was Dr. Mengele,
the Camp Doctor I have mentioned before. When a batch of newly arrived
Jews was being classified into those fit for work and those fit for
death, he would whistle a melody and rhythmically jerk his thumb over
his right or his left shoulder—which meant ‘gas’ or ‘work.’ He thought
conditions in the camp rotten, and even did a few things to improve
them, but at the same time he committed murder callously, without any
qualms.”
These armies of bureaucrats serve a corporate system that will quite
literally kill us. They are as cold and disconnected as Mengele. They
carry out minute tasks. They are docile. Compliant. They obey. They find
their self-worth in the prestige and power of the corporation, in the
status of their positions and in their career promotions. They assure
themselves of their own goodness through their private acts as husbands,
wives, mothers and fathers. They sit on school boards. They go to
Rotary. They attend church. It is moral schizophrenia. They erect walls
to create an isolated consciousness. They make the lethal goals of
ExxonMobil or Goldman Sachs or Raytheon or insurance companies possible.
They destroy the ecosystem, the economy and the body politic and turn
workingmen and -women into impoverished serfs. They feel nothing.
Metaphysical naiveté always ends in murder. It fragments the world.
Little acts of kindness and charity mask the monstrous evil they abet.
And the system rolls forward. The polar ice caps melt. The droughts rage
over cropland. The drones deliver death from the sky. The state moves
inexorably forward to place us in chains. The sick die. The poor starve.
The prisons fill. And the careerist, plodding forward, does his or her
job.
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3.27.2015
***** SPDF DAY 25: Black Student Union Condemns campus Zionist group ...
***** SPDF DAY 25: Black Student Union Condemns Campus Zionist Group, Reaffirms Solidarity with Palestine
https://bayareaintifada.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/black-student-union-condemns-campus-zionist-group-reaffirms-solidarity-with-palestine/
https://bayareaintifada.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/black-student-union-condemns-campus-zionist-group-reaffirms-solidarity-with-palestine/
SPDF Day 25: Systems shutting down. ...
SPDF Day 25: Systems shutting down. Extreme fatigue last everning. Tired this morning. Eyes blurring. Rain. Congress out for 2 weeks. Resting up to be at the White House Sat and Sun... NPR, Washington Post next 2 weeks.
SPDF Day 25: UN says 2014 'devastating year' for Palestinians
SPDF Day 25: UN says 2014 'devastating year' for Palestinians
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/03/report-outlines-devastating-year-palestinians-150326092624937.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/03/report-outlines-devastating-year-palestinians-150326092624937.html
SPDF Day 25: nd. 'A person that would not die for ...
SPDF Day 25: 'A person that would not die for a cause, or for another, is not alive,' MLK Jr paraphrase.
3.26.2015
UN Scientists: -Degree Global Warming Target 'Utterly Inadequate'... AS I'VE BEEN SCREAMING, AND DYING FOR, FOR YEARS.
UN Scientists: -Degree Global Warming Target 'Utterly Inadequate'
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/03/26/2-degree-global-warming-target-utterly-inadequate-leading-un-scientist-says
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/03/26/2-degree-global-warming-target-utterly-inadequate-leading-un-scientist-says
SPDF Day 24: Stamina and strength waning...
SPDF Day 24: Stamina and strength waning. On the Hill for 12 hours, unable to stay conscious for 3 hours or so. But surely I can't complain, after 24 days, virtually zero calories... and I still have many hours per day where I'm functional for Palestine. No complaints. Thank you body. Thank you Spirit. Thank you Creator.
Big-Hearted Chef Serves Up 1 Millionth Free Meal in California
Big-Hearted Chef Serves Up 1 Millionth Free Meal in California
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/making-a-difference/big-hearted-chef-serves-1-millionth-free-meal-california-n330926
SPDF Day 24: ‘Israel’ sells stolen Palestinian gas to Egypt
SPDF Day 24: ‘Israel’ sells stolen Palestinian gas to Egypt
http://falastinews.com/2015/03/26/israel-sells-stolen-palestinian-gas-to-egypt/
http://falastinews.com/2015/03/26/israel-sells-stolen-palestinian-gas-to-egypt/
SPDF Day 24: Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"...
Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"
In the meantime, says the acclaimed New Yorker writer, we're causing the greatest mass extinction since dinosaur days.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
***** vlog. SPDF Day 24: The Epitaph on EVERYTHING GOOD will be that the citizens of the world’s superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for
The epitaph on everything good will be that the citizens of the world's superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for. Nothing could be more self evident for the truth seeker, but the truth seeker would die for the truth, and we have virtually none today, which is another way of stating the same epitaph - Americans chose denial over Truth and the result was the destruction of all that was good, forever.
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
‘New anti-Semitism’ on college campuses is largely blowback against orchestrated Israel advocacy
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/blowback-orchestrated-advocacy
SPDF Day 24: on the Hill, in the rain...
The Weather Channel said zero chance of rain this morning. It has been raining for the last hour. I have coverings for me and the computer but not for the signs. I'm hoping I have weatherproof them enough that they are not damaged. This is the last day for the next 10 days that Congress is in session. Current reports say that the rain should stop by noon which is the next time Congress is scheduled to walk. And they say zero chance of rain this afternoon.
Why Hindu nationalists would rather honour Gandhi's assassin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/why-hindu-nationalists-would-rather-honour-gandhis-assassin-10131292.html
Jesus would hate you all — and you didn’t build that: The truth about the ultra-rich and their New York Times apologists
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/jesus_would_hate_you_all_and_you_didnt_build_that_the_truth_about_the_ultra_rich_and_their_new_york_times_apologists/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 24: "My faith demands that I do whatever I can... Jimmy Carter
"My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try and make difference." Pr. Jimmy Carter
3.25.2015
You Can't Understand Why People Join ISIS Without Understanding Relative Deprivation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amer-tapaenar-/isis-relative-deprivation_b_6912460.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
vid. Israel Psycho State. Daily Savagery in Hebron by Illegal Colonizer
vid. Israel Psycho State. Daily Savagery in Hebron by Illegal Colonizer
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