A compelling and well thought-out piece. That we give as much time to the football draft as the clashes on campuses nationwide reminds me of the original Rollerball movie. I always thought the enormous growth of WWE type wrestling filled the role of opiate for many. Now it is time to get to work, but how do we get others 'attention? Couple this with the eminent environmental change we are, and will continue to be up against, and it's not hard to just want to pull the covers over my head and... For my young-adult children and the 25 years of children I taught, I'll fight. Just trying to figure out where to begin.
" . . . the moral arc of the universe does not naturally bend toward more justice. It must be bent."
This jarred me from my comforting notion that, in the long run, humans were, generally, on a track towards a better tomorrow -- despite the periodic setbacks.
Mr. Sexton suggests that I/we might actually have some responsibility in shaping that moral arc and implies that a good result was not guaranteed. At first this was worrisome -- would I/we be up to the challenge?
But, thankfully, Mr. Sexton completes the bigger picture and directs us forward:
"The good news, the very, very best news, is that a shift is occurring and we are entering a period where that bending is made even more possible."
However, the status quo actually depends on inherent racism, sexism, xenophobia, and uses “limited” or “strategic” authoritarianism in order to keep the supply chain and hegemonic power structure in place. Americans get the benefits (especially the PMC), while people in so-called “Second” and “Third” World countries are exploited and oppressed by dictatorial leaders who serves America’s bottom-line.
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The status quo will not change peacefully. It never has. It could but the system has to be rebuilt from scratch. And by system, I mean the smashing the levers of power, and removing the privilege of the powerful.
The universities that are currently being protested are working with Israel in their colonization? Please, shut up. You don't deserve any funding for this word salad horseshit. Go drink more bourbon
A compelling and well thought-out piece. That we give as much time to the football draft as the clashes on campuses nationwide reminds me of the original Rollerball movie. I always thought the enormous growth of WWE type wrestling filled the role of opiate for many. Now it is time to get to work, but how do we get others 'attention? Couple this with the eminent environmental change we are, and will continue to be up against, and it's not hard to just want to pull the covers over my head and... For my young-adult children and the 25 years of children I taught, I'll fight. Just trying to figure out where to begin.
Mr. Sexton instructs that:
" . . . the moral arc of the universe does not naturally bend toward more justice. It must be bent."
This jarred me from my comforting notion that, in the long run, humans were, generally, on a track towards a better tomorrow -- despite the periodic setbacks.
Mr. Sexton suggests that I/we might actually have some responsibility in shaping that moral arc and implies that a good result was not guaranteed. At first this was worrisome -- would I/we be up to the challenge?
But, thankfully, Mr. Sexton completes the bigger picture and directs us forward:
"The good news, the very, very best news, is that a shift is occurring and we are entering a period where that bending is made even more possible."
Thank you Jared.
When corporations are no longer legally the same as people, we will be moving in the right direction.
However, the status quo actually depends on inherent racism, sexism, xenophobia, and uses “limited” or “strategic” authoritarianism in order to keep the supply chain and hegemonic power structure in place. Americans get the benefits (especially the PMC), while people in so-called “Second” and “Third” World countries are exploited and oppressed by dictatorial leaders who serves America’s bottom-line.
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The status quo will not change peacefully. It never has. It could but the system has to be rebuilt from scratch. And by system, I mean the smashing the levers of power, and removing the privilege of the powerful.
The universities that are currently being protested are working with Israel in their colonization? Please, shut up. You don't deserve any funding for this word salad horseshit. Go drink more bourbon