I really appreciate Jon's post below and agree completely with it. Thank You
Jon. I would have posted earlier but have been trying to decide how I wanted to
say it. I had to work through alot of anger at exactly that attitude that Jon
is talking about to keep my post calm.
This culture has always been great at putting primary blame on ordinary working
class people-- even the poor, elderly&handicapped,-- and that attitude can
easily infiltrate movements that pride themselves on breaking away from the
dominant destructive attitudes.
It's also the same reason I posted that article a week or so back about rural
poor elderly and handicapped losing essential services or at risk of losing
them. My agency does it’s best to service isolated and vulnerable people in
this County but it is increasingly difficult to arrange for home care services.
Home visits by caseworkers to assess needs and monitor ongoing safety of
clients is an essential part of what we do. I myself am a mobility-impaired
person who has to drive to work and to therapy, which I must juggle with a work
schedule.
Feeling superior to other people, though not technically a physical act, is a
particularly pernicious form of violence and antithetical to the justice that
as some brave souls others have noted, is inseparable from sustainability.
I also love that quote by Dr Cornel West about justice being the public
expression of love of that Tony del Plato includes with his posts. Thank you
Tony...and Dr=2
0West.
Jeanne
I'm not talking about mechanics, I'm talking about attitude. I'm
talking about the kind of holier-than-thou preening that
implicitly relegates the rest of America to the category of the
morally inferior.
The fact is that the vast majority of Americans -- I'd guess
around 90 percent of them -- are dealing with economic tides about
the best they can while swimming in a sea of government and media
manipulation that very few people can resist. Yes, there is a
group of people who might in some better world be held to account
for what's happening -- the usual suspects. But most people have
landed where they are through the operation of forces beyond their
control.
Here's a single mom with four kids who lives in the same place in
Newfield that her family has lived in for 150 years, located on a
side road that is not and probably never will be served by TCAT.
She drives into Ithaca every day to her job at Wal-Mart in a car
that doesn't get good mileage but is far beyond her means to
replace. She feeds the kids GMO crap from Wal-Mart because she
can't afford anything better.
What's your solution for her?
Tell her to commute to work on a bike?
Give her a lecture on the need for population control and tell her
to shoot two of the kids?
What's your plan?
Jon
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