So where is all of that money for social welfare
and the arts supposed to come from? Another Chavez here in the
US? Remember what the world bank said about
Castro? That the lack of poverty and 100% literacy in Cuba is
a result of the lack of a wealthy class and that you can't have
both. I hope that this battle between the followers of Alice
Rosenblum and the rabid left wing doesn't end up being the primal metaphor
for existance with the rest of us having to chuck them both just to
survive.
The world is not a muscle, no matter how much
contemporary politicians and economists preach antagonistic rivalry as the base
process of existance. It is 19th medical thinking and our
knowledge has left its mechanical analogies far behind as a result of the
destruction of the lives of dancers and atheletes causing
serious injuries from the beginning. As a primal
process it has done no better in economics and
politics. It goes around dropping little injuries that grow
into cancers in the body of the human soul. Cancers that
continue to destroy whole civilizations with
impunity.
Once there was 1,300 opera houses in the farm state
of Iowa and the greatest use of pig iron was from piano
frames. Even the lower classes were sophisticated in the use
of story telling. The Opera Houses of New Orleans had places even
for slaves to attend. Today we pollute the world with nuclear
hardened metal weapons funded by public funds instead.
Those Opera Houses were publicly funded and most were in public buildings funded
by the communities. Then the corporations slowly taught the
country that dialogue was irrelevant and information flowed only one way (from
the film, record and TV to the audience) That story was taught in
public schools and slowly anything that contradicted it was removed from the
curriculum.
Today computers and the Internet has brought
dialogue back with a vengeance. It is ugly because the artfulness of
the past no longer exists and will have to be rebuilt. It is
simplistic because we have become simple minded preferring sound-bite axioms to
the essay. Essays and Sonatas must be taught.
Until then we have the most murderous civilizations in the history of the
world and the future of human history is in question.
So Brad, it makes a lot of sense to protest what is
the civilizing factor, don't you think? Selma asked if I had no
decency. Here is another definition of decency
Surroundings or services deemed necessary for an acceptable standard of
living. (Am Her IV) Under such a situation this nation has
been indecent to hard working folks like teachers, artists and social
workers since the beginnings of the modern corporation. In fact
I find this process definition more useful than the definitions that claim
indecent as being naked or impolite. The corporate press still
propogates the myth of "those who can't do, teach" and treats teaching as a fall
back profession that can't even get a "professional" loan from a
bank. Artist's products are treated as public goods and
everyone jumps on for a "free ride" while the artist's children are
punished for their father not being an accountant or working for big
blue. That is not acceptable.
Still swimming up stream
Ray
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire
to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if we believed in their
noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the
hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of
some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants,
attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted
men. Emerson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Common Sense
> >
> > Published on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
> > My Tax Dollars
> > by Jacob Lerner
> >
> > With April 15 fast approaching, all thoughts turn to taxes. I entered the
> > American workforce over thirty years ago. Since then, my tax dollars have
> > been used to support, in no particular order:
> > * The Cold War
> > * The War against Palestinians by Israelis
> > * The death of hundreds of thousands in Indonesia, Chile, Kosovo, El
> > Salvador, Iraq, Columbia, Afghanistan, Chechnya
> > * The bailout of multi-billion dollar multi-national corporations
> > * The War in Vietnam
> [snip]
>
> And, after all this sacrifice for the common good,
> then we are still expected to voluntarily give
> charitable donations for social welfare services,
> the arts, etc.
>
> As somebody says somewhere in the media:
>
> Give me a break!
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
> <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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