The Sheep Look Up

By Gray Brechin


http://www.countercurrents.org/brechin070710.htm



"..Those in On the Beach knew what was coming as few today do. As the
worsening news from the Gulf becomes chronic, it retreats into the
inner pages of dying newspapers, displaced from the front page by the
World Cup and Tiger Woods’ comeback. That much of life could be ending
on Planet Earth would be a bummer for many, and very bad for business.
The lights must never go out, wrote Auden at the outbreak of World War
II, the music must always play.

That may soon change. There will be no security in high-riding Hummers
or in fully loaded automatics. There will be no escape or refuge for
the hyper wealthy in their pre-fueled private jets as the life support
systems of Planet Earth go down. Sybaritic retreats like Atlantis in
the Bahamas could soon submerge under dead and oily water. Each person
may soon be forced to decide what to do with what time is left to him
or her and to those they love. They might turn back to the words with
which biologist Rachel Carson ended the introductory “Fable for
Tomorrow” in her 1962 warning Silent Spring: “No witchcraft, no enemy
action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world.
The people had done it themselves...”

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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot
build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you
will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a
whole.
-AMBEDKAR



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