Wood to Ash 13 comments

23 Nov 2008 @ 05:48, by John Ashbaugh Last day of the quarter, final class for Contemporary World Cultures, which is what is culture all about anyway, and how many cultures do you belong to? Then who are all of these economic organizations, - the IMF , the World Bank, and all the rest of ‘em, not to mention all those corporations all over the place, basically running those governments who keep those territories under taxation and control. Not to mention the international monetary mechanisms in all of their maneuverings, not to mention all of that human suffering on the other end o the fulcrum. A few big fat ones on one side and a bunch of skinny ones on the other side. More and more people are becoming more and more aware of the man behind the curtain, and the man behind the curtain has become rather audacious in his grasp for power. What is all of this doing to the thinking of the indigenous peoples? Why heck, aren’t We the Indigenous peoples of the places we have come up from right now? Indigenous, of the land, from the Land, with the Land, and of the Oceans between all of our lands on this Globe. All of those national boundaries are artificial constructs, lines on a piece of paper. Your home is where there are those whom you can speak with. Graduation for most in this class will be March. Either look for someone to hire on to, or pay someone money or go into debt to get a higher degree so that maybe some day you can make enough money to buy your own house. We’re talking about all of your tomorrows here. Write an essay telling me how you would change the world if you could, in some less than phantasmagoric, than more reasonably implementable way, within the parameters of alteration for a single generation. For all of us. Are we watching something go by, or are we participating in it, and how do we know the difference? Write an essay on some corporation and how it influences or impacts the communities it visits. Write an essay on a third world country that has been visited by any number of corporations or international financial institutions. Somebody wants to know. Somebody is concerned. Nobody knows what to do. Don’t tell me I got to go out to the street and spend my time marching around and getting my picture taken, and we’ve all been there before and done that, and look what we got! This is underground revolution. Like getting closer and closer to some denouement. It all goes by: Raindrop falls into the ocean. Wood chip burns to ash. No, We got daycares to be going to, and families to be taking care of and jobs to be taking care of to be taking care of those families . . .by the way, family is number one around here . . . and homework to be doing, so I ain’t got much time for marching, mind you, but I’m still mad about this Federal Reserve thing if what they is doing is ridin’ on my back. I kinda figured that anyhow, but now they’re trying to cut me out of what little I got, so I just might be beginning to be a little bit disturbed, which leads quite frequently to unpredictable patterns of behavior. No Tellin’. The veil of fear needs to rendered. When we no longer fear one another, when there is no longer fear between us, we will be on the same side, and the problems we need to solve will be on the other. *-*_8-* JA

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