what part of you have we not poisoned?
where does our noise not penetrate?
you sustain us
so why do we act as if that sustenance is something to be won and wrested from you,
with what amounts to little more than long-distance rape?
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
These things worry me
Is calling yourself the follower of a man who smashed the money-changers' property consistent with condemning the actions of the Black Bloc?
What exactly is violence?
Isn't there something violent about a Nike shoe, McDonald's burger, or cop's car? What exactly is more violent, to do nothing about them, or to smash them?
What exactly is violence?
Isn't there something violent about a Nike shoe, McDonald's burger, or cop's car? What exactly is more violent, to do nothing about them, or to smash them?
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Would-be followers take note
The Jesus of the Gospels didn't seem to think poverty was a problem — wealth was. He didn't think the solution to economic inequality was the comfortable and well-to-do pulling the poor up to their level through charity or economic development.
The solution was for the rich to become poor.
The solution was for the rich to become poor.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Said the L'Arche Assistant to the Social Worker
"Sometimes 'helping people' just seems like an excuse to control them — and feel good about yourself for doing it."
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Post-Election Meditation
As _______(e.g. activists, Christians, anarchists, Quakers, progressives, subversives, radicals, leftists, shit-disturbers, protesters, whatever... as people of good will),
Are we right to demand that our governments make justice and peace the basis of all their policies and actions if we have failed to build livable communities that are free from coercion and hierarchy? Can we demand that corporations end the exploitation basic to their economic life if we have personally failed to find ways to make a living that are sustainable, and free from any form of oppression? Why should they take us seriously, or believe that such things are possible in the "real world," and on a grand systemic level, if it has proved un-achievable on a small-scale, personal level?
(What about what Jesus said about considering other's sin to be like a speck, and our own like a plank – and our need to deal with our own, before addressing others? Or the parable about the servant who is faithless in the little things never being entrusted with the great ones?)
How exactly do we imagine our utopia of peace, justice, and sustainability would be achieved? By coercive laws backed up by force?
Are we right to demand that our governments make justice and peace the basis of all their policies and actions if we have failed to build livable communities that are free from coercion and hierarchy? Can we demand that corporations end the exploitation basic to their economic life if we have personally failed to find ways to make a living that are sustainable, and free from any form of oppression? Why should they take us seriously, or believe that such things are possible in the "real world," and on a grand systemic level, if it has proved un-achievable on a small-scale, personal level?
(What about what Jesus said about considering other's sin to be like a speck, and our own like a plank – and our need to deal with our own, before addressing others? Or the parable about the servant who is faithless in the little things never being entrusted with the great ones?)
How exactly do we imagine our utopia of peace, justice, and sustainability would be achieved? By coercive laws backed up by force?
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