dre poetic: words by adrien salazar

14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Financial stability is not very interesting nor ultimately very useful.

Sometimes words come together in my head in interesting ways.

Jonathan Stein for MoJo Blog:

In a crisis when even the wealthy are facing precariousness, and the prospect of losing everything, a strong social safety net that protects everyone in their times of need is even more vital. History will judge our actions in this period not by how we treated those that have the riches to survive, but by how we treated those that almost didn’t.

Read the rest of “Should We Pity the Rich?”

“They have this idea that Lakotas are (or at least were) a primitive people in relation to Europe. any rational person would have to ask what’s so “primitive” about a people which manage to maintain a perpetually democratic way of life, which shared all social power equitably between both sexes and various age groups, which considered war essentially a game rather than an excuse to indulge in the wanton slaughter of masses of people, which killed game only for food rather than a “sport,” which managed to occupy its environment for thousands and thousands of years without substantially altering it (that is to say, destroying it). That same rational person would have to ask why any sane individual would not choose to live that way if the chance were available, or aspire towards such an existence if the chance wasn’t immediate.
That same rational person would then have to ask what’s so “advanced” about a culture which generates authoritarianism and dictatorship as a social norm, which deprives its women, its ethnic minorities, its elders and its youth of any true social power, which engages in the most lethal warfare on a regular basis and has left perhaps a half billion mangled bodies in its wake during this century alone, which is eliminating entire species of plants and animal life forever and without real concern, and which has utterly devastated the environment of this continent in approximately two centuries. Finally, that same rational person would have to ask what sort of lunatic would choose to switch from the first way of life to the second….”

- Frank Black Elk

(From Salma.)