“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
-- Dante Alighieri, writer
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2 comments:
Yeah, there's a certain kind of freedom that comes from being poor, and if that's the path you find yourself on, you do learn to make the most of it.
I would imagine it to feel different if you didn't choose it yourself like I did, and I have seen a lot of living evidence supporting that idea.
The flip side of that is all of the various skills and criteria you are required to master and overcome to just be. They don't make it easy (or cheap) to be poor, and the consequences of failing tend to be close to home (if you have one), as it were.
This week was nuts, politically, and it's gonna get worse before it gets better, but we knew it would be like this. I keep telling myself that I've lived through harder times and harsher circumstances than this, and then I make myself remember that it's not all about me, and that there are a lot of good people out there who haven't developed the skills at living through unnecessary bullshit that I have.
And that there are still babies in cages.
And so we have to do this right.
To a certain extent they are using our better natures against us, believing that being outraged will throw us off of our games and cause us to make the mistakes they can beat us with, and we must (there's that word again) prove them wrong about that.
I still believe we can, for whatever that's worth.
Thank you again for the podcast, and being 58 years old, I'm profoundly sorry for the world I'm leaving to these amazing young people who feel they have no other choice than to fix it.
-Doug in Oakland
I just saw the cover of this book, I knew it would make your head explode: https://i.imgur.com/wkc6WFO.png
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