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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 14, 2013, 2:24 pm
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Alan Grayson
From a recent 188-page report by the World Health Organization
come these ghastly and appalling factoids: :(
•Suicide rates rose 40% in the first six months of 2011 alone.
•Murder has doubled.
•9,100 doctors in Greece, roughly one out of every seven, have
been laid off.
Joining those doctors in joblessness are 27.6% of the entire
Greek labor force. By comparison, in the depths of the Great
Depression, unemployment in the United States peaked at a lower
percentage than that. Among Greek young adults under 25 years
old, unemployment reached an abominable 64.9% in May. (Yet the
unemployment rate in Greece was as low as 7% as recently as
2008.)
I'm sure that my Tea Party friends will blame universal
healthcare, paid sick leave and "generous" unemployment benefits
for this catastrophe. "If we simply stopped helping people, then
they wouldn't need our help," they would say. You can see where
that "logic" leads. The dead need no help whatsoever, except
possibly burial. Sort of like this: "The Republican healthcare
plan: Don't Get Sick. And if you do get sick, Die Quickly."
Maybe you think that I'm kidding about what my Tea Party
friends would do. I'm not. A few years ago here in Florida, we
had a children's health insurance program called KidCare, with a
waiting list of over 100,000. The Tea Party Republicans didn't
like that. So they eliminated the waiting list.
But back to Greece. A lot of people blame Greek government debt
for the current suffering.
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According to the Central Intelligence Agency, that most
authoritative of all conceivable sources, ;D Greek government
debt stands at 160% of GDP, which seems like a lot. But Japanese
government debt stands at 215% of GDP, and the unemployment rate
in Japan is only 4%.
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Moreover, Spain's unemployment rate is virtually as high as
Greece's, but Spain's government debt stands at only 85% of GDP.
That's less debt than Singapore's, and Singapore's unemployment
rate is 1.8%.
So we cannot properly attribute the catastrophe in Greece to
labor protection, nor can we attribute it to government
borrowing. What is the cause, then?
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World Health Organization has the answer: austerity. "Austerity"
is a bloodless term for gross economic mismanagement, animated
by heartlessness. That robotic cut-cut-cut mentality that
deprives us of jobs, of public services, of safety, of health,
of infrastructure, of help for the needy, and - ultimately -- of
our economic equilibrium and the ability to survive. The
mentality that ushers in, and welcomes, a vicious war of all
against all. Austerity is destroying an entire country, right
before our eyes.
Or, as the World Health Organization put it: "These adverse
trends in Greece pose a warning to other countries undergoing
significant fiscal austerity, including Spain, Ireland and
Italy. It also suggests that ways need to be found for
cash-strapped governments to consolidate finances without
undermining much-needed investments in health."
In America, we have a rich and powerful lobby
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austerity. Cut-cut-cut. Cut Social Security and Medicare. Cut
teacher and police and firefighter jobs. Cut health care. Cut
pay and cut pensions. It all boils down to that one ugly word:
austerity. And austerity always brings disarray, disaster, decay
and death.
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People often ask me my position on various issues. Well, I'm
for certain things, and I'm against others. But on one issue,
I'm very consistent. I'm against pain and suffering. Especially
avoidable pain and suffering. And therefore, I'm against
austerity. It begins with seemingly innocuous budget cuts. It
then leads inexorably to the destruction of countless lives.
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Why am I telling you about Greece? In 1935, Sinclair Lewis
wrote a book called "It Can't Happen Here." But it can. And it's
up to us to prevent it.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
"The horror! The horror!"
-- The last words of Col. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of
Darkness (1899).
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Profiles in Courage: Helder Camara
By: AGelbert Date: December 17, 2013, 7:03 pm
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Helder Camara
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BBC Radio Scotland - Thought for the Day
Alastair McIntosh, 1 August 2006 – Spiral of Violence
My youth was during the Vietnam era, and I have to confess that
as a hawkish young man I found war rather exciting. I remember
going to Aberdeen University and seeing a poster that said, “War
is not good for children and other living things,” and it
irritated me for its naivety.
But there were rather a lot of posters like this, and, worked on
by my valiant if few-and-far-between girlfriends, I gradually
started to think in new ways that chipped away at the armour
round my heart.
One of the most influential poster voices was a Brazilian
archbishop called Helder Camara. He’d come out with things like
- why is it that “When I give food to the poor they call me a
saint. [But] when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a
communist”?
I wonder how many of today’s politicians realize that when
talking about the “spiral of violence” in the Middle East,
they’re drawing on Camara, who published a little book by that
name in 1971?
He observed that violence builds up at three levels in a
society. Primary violence is the everyday effect of structurally
ingrained social injustice. This generates secondary violence -
the revolt of the oppressed. And that in turn provokes tertiary
violence - repression by the powerful to secure their privileged
position. And so the spiral of violence tightens.
After years of being out of print, Archbishop Camara’s little
book is now going on the web. It culminates with an “appeal to
youth”, saying that wars happen because of the egotism of
adults, and he urges the youth to, “provoke discussions [and]
force people to think and take up a position: let it be
uncomfortable, like truth, demanding, like justice.”
Whether Lebanese or Israeli, war is not good for children and
other living things, and the children are always innocent.
Camara’s last word is for them: “With you I must remain young in
my soul,” he said, “and keep the hope and love I need to help
all humanity.”
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: Surly1 Date: December 18, 2013, 6:34 am
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Brilliant, AG.
[quote]He observed that violence builds up at three levels in a
society. Primary violence is the everyday effect of structurally
ingrained social injustice. This generates secondary violence -
the revolt of the oppressed. And that in turn provokes tertiary
violence - repression by the powerful to secure their privileged
position. And so the spiral of violence tightens.
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Camara was a true saint (in spite of the HRCC's efforts to quash
liberation theology.) And a personal inspiration. He is one of
the reasons I am unalterably opposed to violence in resistance.
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Profiles in Courage: Martin Luther King
By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2014, 7:27 pm
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Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
by
HamdenRiceFollow .
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Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front
yard with his son at his side.
This will be a very short diary. It will not contain any links
or any scholarly references. It is about a very narrow topic,
from a very personal, subjective perspective.
The topic at hand is what Martin Luther King actually did, what
it was that he actually accomplished.
What most people who reference Dr. King seem not to know is how
Dr. King actually changed the subjective experience of life in
the United States for African Americans. And yeah, I said for
African Americans, not for Americans, because his main impact
was his effect on the lives of African Americans, not on
Americans in general. His main impact was not to make white
people nicer or fairer. That's why some of us who are African
Americans get a bit possessive about his legacy. Dr. Martin
Luther King's legacy, despite what our civil religion tells us,
is not color blind.
I remember that many years ago, when I was a smartass home from
first year of college, I was standing in the kitchen arguing
with my father. My head was full of newly discovered political
ideologies and black nationalism, and I had just read the
Autobiography of Malcolm X, probably for the second time.
A bit of context. My father was from a background, which if we
were talking about Europe or Latin America, we would call,
"peasant" origin, although he had risen solidly into the
working-middle class. He was from rural Virginia and his parents
had been tobacco farmers. I spent two weeks or so every summer
on the farm of my grandmother and step-grandfather.
They had no running water, no gas, a wood burning stove, no
bathtubs or toilets but an outhouse, potbelly stoves for heat in
the winter, a giant wood pile, a smoke house where hams and
bacon hung, chickens, pigs, semi wild housecats that lived
outdoors, no tractor or car, but an old plow horse and plows and
other horse drawn implements, and electricity only after I was
about 8 years old.
The area did not have high schools for blacks and my father went
as far as the seventh grade in a one room schoolhouse. All four
of his grandparents, whom he had known as a child, had been born
slaves. It was mainly because of World War II and urbanization
that my father left that life.
They lived in a valley or hollow or "holler" in which all the
landowners and tenants were black. In the morning if you wanted
to talk to cousin Taft, you would walk down to behind the
outhouse and yell across the valley, "Heeeyyyy Taaaaft," and you
could see him far, far in the distance, come out of his cabin
and yell back.
On the one hand, this was a pleasant situation because they
lived in isolation from white people. On the other hand, they
did have to leave the valley to go to town where all the rigid
rules of Jim Crow applied. By the time I was little, my people
had been in this country for six generations (going back,
according to oral rendering of our genealogy, to Africa Jones
and Mama Suki), much more under slavery than under freedom, and
all of it under some form of racial terrorism, which had
inculcated many humiliating behavior patterns.
Anyway, that's background. I think we were kind of typical as
African Americans in the pre-civil rights era went.
So anyway, I was having this argument with my father about
Martin Luther King and how his message was too conservative
compared to Malcolm X's message. My father got really angry at
me. It wasn't that he disliked Malcolm X, but his point was that
Malcolm X hadn't accomplished anything as Dr. King had.
I was kind of sarcastic and asked something like, so what did
Martin Luther King accomplish other than giving his "I have a
dream speech."
Before I tell you what my father told me, I want to digress.
Because at this point in our amnesiac national existence, my
question pretty much reflects the national civic religion view
of what Dr. King accomplished. He gave this great speech. Or
some people say, "he marched." I was so angry at Mrs. Clinton
during the primaries when she said that Dr. King marched, but it
was LBJ who delivered the Civil Rights Act. >:(
At this point, I would like to remind everyone exactly what
Martin Luther King did, and it wasn't that he "marched" or gave
a great speech.
My father told me with a sort of cold fury, "Dr. King ended the
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Please let this sink in and and take my word and the word of my
late father on this. If you are a white person who has always
lived in the U.S. and never under a brutal dictatorship, you
probably don't know what my father was talking about.
But this is what the great Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished.
Not that he marched, nor that he gave speeches.
He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in
the south.
I'm guessing that most of you, especially those having come
fresh from seeing The Help, may not understand what this was all
about. But living in the south (and in parts of the midwest and
in many ghettos of the north) was living under terrorism.
It wasn't that black people had to use a separate drinking
fountain or couldn't sit at lunch counters, or had to sit in the
back of the bus.
You really must disabuse yourself of this idea. Lunch counters
and buses were crucial symbolic planes of struggle that the
civil rights movement used to dramatize the issue, but the main
suffering in the south did not come from our inability to drink
from the same fountain, ride in the front of the bus or eat
lunch at Woolworth's.
It was that white people, mostly white men, occasionally went
berserk, and grabbed random black people, usually men, and
lynched them. You all know about lynching. But you may forget or
not know that white people also randomly beat black people, and
the black people could not fight back, for fear of even worse
punishment.
This constant low level dread of atavistic violence is what kept
the system running. It made life miserable, stressful and
terrifying for black people.
White people also occasionally tried black people, especially
black men, for crimes for which they could not conceivably be
guilty. With the willing participation of white women, they
often accused black men of "assault," which could be anything
from rape to not taking off one's hat, to "reckless eyeballing."
This is going to sound awful and perhaps a stain on my late
father's memory, but when I was little, before the civil rights
movement, my father taught me many, many humiliating practices
in order to prevent the random, terroristic, berserk behavior of
white people. The one I remember most is that when walking down
the street in New York City side by side, hand in hand with my
hero-father, if a white woman approached on the same sidewalk, I
was to take off my hat and walk behind my father, because he had
been taught in the south that black males for some reason were
supposed to walk single file in the presence of any white lady.
This was just one of many humiliating practices we were taught
to prevent white people from going berserk.
I remember a huge family reunion one August with my aunts and
uncles and cousins gathered around my grandparents' vast
breakfast table laden with food from the farm, and the state
troopers drove up to the house with a car full of rifles and
shotguns, and everyone went kind of weirdly blank. They put on
the masks that black people used back then to not provoke white
berserkness. My strong, valiant, self-educated, articulate
uncles, whom I adored, became shuffling, Step-N-Fetchits to
avoid provoking the white men. Fortunately the troopers were
only looking for an escaped convict. Afterward, the women, my
aunts, were furious at the humiliating performance of the men,
and said so, something that even a child could understand.
This is the climate of fear that Dr. King ended.
If you didn't get taught such things, let alone experience them,
I caution you against invoking the memory of Dr. King as though
he belongs exclusively to you and not primarily to African
Americans.
The question is, how did Dr. King do this—and of course, he
didn't do it alone.
(Of all the other civil rights leaders who helped Dr. King end
this reign of terror, I think the most under appreciated is
James Farmer, who founded the Congress of Racial Equality and
was a leader of nonviolent resistance, and taught the practices
of nonviolent resistance.)
So what did they do?
They told us: Whatever you are most afraid of doing vis-a-vis
white people, go do it.
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Go ahead down to city
hall and try to register to vote, even if they say no, even if
they take your name down.
Go ahead sit at that lunch counter. Sue the local school board.
All things that most black people would have said back then,
without exaggeration, were stark raving insane and would get you
killed.
If we do it all together, we'll be okay.
They made black people experience the worst of the worst,
collectively, that white people could dish out, and discover
that it wasn't that bad. They taught black people how to take a
beating—from the southern cops, from police dogs, from fire
department hoses. They actually coached young people how to
crouch, cover their heads with their arms and take the beating.
They taught people how to go to jail, which terrified most
decent people.
And you know what? The worst of the worst, wasn't that bad.
Once people had been beaten, had dogs sicced on them, had fire
hoses sprayed on them, and been thrown in jail, you know what
happened?
These magnificent young black people began singing freedom songs
in jail.
That, my friends, is what ended the terrorism of the south.
Confronting your worst fears, living through it, and breaking
out in a deep throated freedom song. The jailers knew they had
lost when they beat the crap out of these young Negroes and the
jailed, beaten young people began to sing joyously, first in one
town then in another. This is what the writer, James Baldwin,
captured like no other writer of the era.
Please let this sink in. It wasn't marches or speeches. It was
taking a severe beating, surviving and realizing that our fears
were mostly illusory and that we were free.
So yes, Dr. King had many other goals, many other more
transcendent, non-racial, policy goals, goals that apply to
white people too, like ending poverty, reducing the war-like
aspects of our foreign policy, promoting the New Deal goal of
universal employment, and so on. But his main accomplishment was
ending 200 years of racial terrorism, by getting black people to
confront their fears. So please don't tell me that Martin Luther
King's dream has not been achieved, unless you knew what racial
terrorism was like back then and can make a convincing case you
still feel it today. If you did not go through that transition,
you're not qualified to say that the dream was not accomplished.
That is what Dr. King did—not march, not give good speeches. He
crisscrossed the south organizing people, helping them not be
afraid, and encouraging them, like Gandhi did in India, to take
the beating that they had been trying to avoid all their lives.
Once the beating was over, we were free.
It wasn't the Civil Rights Act, or the Voting Rights Act or the
Fair Housing Act that freed us. It was taking the beating and
thereafter not being afraid. So, sorry Mrs. Clinton, as much as
I admire you, you were wrong on this one.
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Our
people freed ourselves and those Acts, as important as they
were, were only white people officially recognizing what we had
done.
Originally posted to HamdenRice on Mon Aug 29, 2011 at 08:24 AM
PDT.
Also republished by The Yes We Can Pragmatists, J Town, Black
Kos community, Genealogy and Family History Community, White
Privilege Working Group, Barriers and Bridges, Kitchen Table
Kibitzing, and Daily Kos.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2014, 7:42 pm
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Surly said, [quote]
Camara was a true saint (in spite of the HRCC's efforts to quash
liberation theology.) And a personal inspiration. He is one of
the reasons I am unalterably opposed to violence in
resistance.[/quote]
I am way behind you in learning of this great man. I had heard
of Liberation Theory vaguely with Vatican II but really didn't
know much about it. It's only in the last decade or so that I
have learned how the real saints are either demonized or
studiously ignored. Camara is now an inspiration to me but you
are as well, brother.
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Profiles in Courage: Bill Hicks
By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2014, 6:11 pm
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Bill Hicks
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Profiles in Courage Micheal Ruppert R.I.P.: COLLAPSE VIDEO
By: AGelbert Date: April 19, 2014, 8:03 pm
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: Surly1 Date: April 25, 2014, 5:53 am
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Interesting in that I have a great appreciation for the bodies
of work of both Bill Hicks and Mike Ruppert. A taste clearly not
shared on DD.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: April 25, 2014, 2:25 pm
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Surly,
You are a patient man but I don't believe you ever really fit in
to the irrational, dismissive, "we've got this planet all
figured out" attitude prevalent at the DD. They like to argue
but, by and large, have no interest in questioning the premises
of their world view. Premises established when they were about
FOURTEEN. >:(
Speaking of Ruppert, I heard an interesting commentary on
Ruppert from Webster Tarpley. Tarpley is a historical scholar. I
don't agree with his views on energy and his dismissive attitude
toward the Occupy movement. But, he makes sense when he says
that Ruppert was off base claiming that the guy that did an
expose on drug trafficking in L.A. by the CIA and was later
"suicided" by the CIA WAS NOT SUICIDED. I think Ruppert was
Suicided just like Gary Webb.
Anyway, the point Tarpley brought up, and I agree with him
there, is that the world view that humans are inherently evil
with absolutely no recourse to a better world is an
interpretation of the created Universe that leads to a "There is
no solution" type attitude (quite prevalent at the DD,
regardless of the rampant atheism there) that can lead to
paranoia and a closed mind towards potential solutions when
things look very dark
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(i..e. 85% forked = 100%
forked is BAD LOGIC).
A person in this "collapse is imminent" mind set becomes trapped
in a self reinforcing depressive cycle and loses objectivity.
This happened to Mike Ruppert in regard to renewable energy. He
refused to study it or even contemplate it as a solution NOT
BECAUSE of the physics and laws of thermodynamics, but because
he was CONVINCED that there IS NO HOPE and was not interested in
anything that would delay the "apocalypse". Maybe he was right.
But the point is that closing the door to hope is a bad way to
live and certainly not the way we should live in a JUST
UNIVERSE. The fact that the Christian world view believes that
man's nature is flawed and the universe is fallen does not
justify the view that we are just naturally bad and there ain't
a thing we can do but bend over and kiss our arses goodbye.
Ruppert was wrong that fossil fuels could not be replaced and
mankind could not live sustainably. He was right that sociopaths
run the world and some of them were out to get him.
God did not make an unjust, random universe, like many DD people
wrongly believe. No matter how hard mankind tries to fork it
up, a remnant of mankind HAS the answers because those answers
EXIST, not because they are a pipe dream. God is good. The
universe is good. Man can be good despite his fallen nature.
You're here. I'm here. THAT'S PROOF! ;D
Entropy is real and we are all going to die someday. So what?
That doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and claim man is
too evil (a rather virulent form of entropy born of spiritual
bankruptcy when applied to human to human physical, destructive
behavior) to be without recourse for a sustainable society.
Tarpley claims that logic is a mental box canyon.
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agree.
Tarpley has more faith in hard ball politics and BS energy
"solutions"
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like
nuclear and fusion :P and still doesn't get how badly forked
the environment is
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that no solution exists is wrong for a responsible human being.
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Listen to the Tarpley Broadcast of April 19, 2014 if you would
like to hear what he said. It includes an accurate and extremely
informative history lesson on the Ukraine (it's an artificial
country actually invented by the Germans in WWII! :o)
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: Surly1 Date: April 26, 2014, 9:51 am
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Hi AG,
[quote]You are a patient man but I don't believe you ever really
fit in to the irrational, dismissive, "we've got this planet all
figured out" attitude prevalent at the DD. They like to argue
but, by and large, have no interest in questioning the premises
of their world view. Premises established when they were about
FOURTEEN. >:(
Speaking of Ruppert, I heard an interesting commentary on
Ruppert from Webster Tarpley. Tarpley is a historical scholar. I
don't agree with his views on energy and his dismissive attitude
toward the Occupy movement. But, he makes sense when he says
that Ruppert was off base claiming that the guy that did an
expose on drug trafficking in L.A. by the CIA and was later
"suicided" by the CIA WAS NOT SUICIDED. I think Ruppert was
Suicided just like Gary Webb.
[/quote]
I am not sure I deserve the implicit praise, but thanks. Often I
am ANYTHING but patient.
You already know that I am not an atheist. But I guess I read
the commentary differently from you, in terms of "we have the
planet figured out." Geez, the older I get, the more I realize I
know little, and that much of what I know has been shaped by
those with an agenda. So I have learned to question everything.
You would have to be either an optimist or a lunatic to be an
old man involved with Occupy. I qualify on both counts, girded
by the belief that it is only masses of people in the streets
that can possibly counteract the pernicious influence of
corporate money or get the attention of their otherwise-bought
hirelings to influence policy. So how's that working out so far?
Not so good. The same people who have the police locked down
also own mass media and are in the process of turning the net
into a greased tube for Amazon, Comcast and verizon.
Hard times for an optimist.
In re Ruppert, there is a body of evidence that suggests
otherwise. Allow me to point you to these and you can consider
the argument that he did in fact take his own life.
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I am struck by that one of the last thoughts attributed to MR
was, "There is no more time." It reminded me strongly of a quote
often misattributed to Buddha, but actually From Carlos
Castaneda, in the voice of Don Juan:
There is one simple thing wrong with you – you think you have
plenty of time … If you don’t think your life is going to last
forever, what are you waiting for ? Why the hesitation to
change? You don’t have time for this display, you fool. This,
whatever you’re doing now, may be your last act on earth. It may
very well be your last battle. There is no power which could
guarantee that you are going to live one more minute.
If we don't show up, who will?
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