In a message dated 3/14/05 4:19:55 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> a decision made literally decades ago---deciding to drive residential
> streets today instead of using the freeway help anything (besides perhaps
> assuaging some guilt)?
Erin, to me, Caty's angry cry at the loss of Rondo because of a freeway being
built there ...and then she herself using that same freeway to get to work
constitutes the intent of her argument as being not quite so legitimate in my
eyes.
Strange as it may sound...I would respect her belief system a whole lot more
if that she felt so strongly about what White America did to Rondo, that she
would use an alternative route everyday other than that same roadway that she
seemingly despises.� (Afterall, she says she would if it didn't exist anymore).
A relating example.
Much like the P-9 union boycott of Hormel products in the 1980's.
If you were a brother or sister of a union and believed strongly in what was
going on there in Austin 1986...how could you allow yourself to eat at Burger
King? ...who (as I understand it) got their local meat from Hormel at that
time.
In other words...putting your money where your mouth is.
Someone who believes so strongly in their intent that they sacrifice their
own convenience/interests to make their point for merely themselves if not for
anything else.�
It's a concept so true to the nature of man and natural law and yet...seems
almost long gone in our American belief system today.
Like that Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in protest over the
Vietnam war.
That's amazing power; the image it evokes today, even.
And how many subsequent people have tried to set themselves on fire for media
attention and end up looking superficial?
I guess I'm talking about the power of "Intent".� And following through on
your belief system.
I'm sure Caty feels strongly about the loss of Rondo.� That's up to her if
she wants to labor that the rest of her life.
I'm saying, as anyone would say...
If you don't like ice cream because of the way it was made, but you yourself
buy it for whatever reason...don't ridicule me for buying it and my not caring
how it was put there in front of me.
Myke P. Golben
Battle Creek
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