tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post2099403676303977260..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: Well, appeasement hasn’t worked…Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-9874130664003509892011-09-21T16:54:25.572-05:002011-09-21T16:54:25.572-05:00I seem to be commenting heavily on this post. If I...I seem to be commenting heavily on this post. If I am getting boring, I apologize. But this big, wide world is in such a mess. And why? Because we are afraid, and because avirice and dishonesty rears its monstrous head from pole to pole. What is needed is a complete change of mentality, a complete change of heart, which recognizes that we are all in the same boat. Whitman's spirit of generosity comes to mind (yes, I know he was an abolitionist and then later perceived abolition as a threat to democracy, but surely in our own spirit of generosity we can forgive him for that): "This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." <br />Walt Whitman 1819-1892.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-10398825675227731812011-09-21T16:31:38.998-05:002011-09-21T16:31:38.998-05:00What "trickle down" economics actually m...What "trickle down" economics actually means is people with more money than makes sense(and corporations) urinating down their legs. The wealth of the world, the surplus, should be shared for the common good. Their is no good reason at all for dire poverty in a world of gross excess. If it is self-evident that all people are born equal, then it's about time all people are treated equally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-4688104848789378452011-09-21T11:45:22.060-05:002011-09-21T11:45:22.060-05:00The rich have been attacking us for too long. I ju...The rich have been attacking us for too long. I just hope this works and its not too late.One Raging Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14827334732036229315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-47215107504822550062011-09-20T11:15:15.138-05:002011-09-20T11:15:15.138-05:00"Well, appeasement hasn’t worked". It su..."Well, appeasement hasn’t worked". It sure hasn't, I wonder who came up with that strategy? I could have told them that wouldn't work.Redeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-496716146696766052011-09-19T13:52:44.618-05:002011-09-19T13:52:44.618-05:00Oh, so true, Sharky-fu. And so wide-spread too. An...Oh, so true, Sharky-fu. And so wide-spread too. And, what is so shoddy about poverty in rich nations, and perhaps even globally, is that if legislatures make law, and if law rules, then such poverty must be ultimately the result of policy one way or another expressing the inability of the nation to share its wealth and resources. If the people are selfish, the nation will be selfish - there will be poverty, there will be ignorance, there will be crime, there will be hunger, there will be disease, there will be insecurity. If the most powerful and wealthy of the people are selfish (as they generally are, since that is how they tended to attain power and wealth), if the legislature is selfish, then it will all be so much worse. I do not covet wealth. I do not give two hoots if someone is a billionaire. But I am stricken by hunger and deprivation in our midst. Surely only the meanest of spirit would not wish to see well nourished, healthy, bright people everywhere. To the wealthy and powerful: you have to live in this world too; you might not think so, but you have to share it with the rest of us. Am I being idealistic? Well, what the heck is wrong with that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-5099300155527076202011-09-19T08:58:49.014-05:002011-09-19T08:58:49.014-05:00More like we keep giving them miles and they keep ...More like we keep giving them miles and they keep taking light years.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08944649205659070225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-60326341318474413782011-09-19T08:44:42.247-05:002011-09-19T08:44:42.247-05:00Have you been watching what started in NYC on Satu...Have you been watching what started in NYC on Saturday? Protesters on Wall Street, with (hopeful) plans of staying there. *fingers crossed that they stick it out nonviolently*Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14707857929611126038noreply@blogger.com