Egalitarianism

Dearest shadow...

something i read today really moved me. i wasnt sure how to take it but being the emotional crackpot that i can be....i took it to heart the moment i read it.

i always get lots of junk to my yahoo mail. only a treasured few know the mail add and send me mail there. and its been full of stuff on the season's make up trends and whether ankle socks is in or not....i was going mad trying to find my work contacts which were gone with my old gmail.

and i read this.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. ' If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness your gloom will become like midday and the lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places.'

....you know, think of those Jewish sheep-herders going to meet the Pharoh, mud on their shoes and the Pharoh says, "Equal? A preposterous idea: rich and poor are equal?" And they say, "Yeah, 'Equal,' thats what it says here in this book. We're all made in the image of God."
And eventually the Pharoh says "Okay. I can accept that. I can accept the Jews - but not the blacks."

"Not the women. Not the Gays. Not the Irish. No way man.
So on we go with our journey of equality. On we go on the pursuit of justice.


too radical? yea i like such stuff. thought provoking and controversial. then again, its true. i didnt make that stuff up by the way. It is from the book that Bono wrote. His speech includes this stuff. and more i suppose but this is about what they squished into the book. I was moved by it and could not get the images outta my head. I came to see how some people live in this tv license paying country. some live without a tv. food. electricity. clothes. even homes. some live directly opposite to maslow's hierarchy of human needs. i ask myself if they are just not human or not treated human. some bring it upon themselves. that's their business. but what abt those who dont?

karma? or injustice?


maybe a little of both. but its painful nonetheless. i wonder how someone can study subject matter like sociology and then go out to work in that field and be completely unfeeling and unattached to their "cases". Professionalism? maybe. then again, even a zookeeper is professional in that sense. they study the medical and sciency things needed for the field, get out there, work and yet retain that human touch. i wonder if the privileged penguins and rhinos are aware of the human touch they receive.

ah well. there i go again. getting all argumentative and emotional. i should become a zookeeper. i seem to understand fish behaviour better than the two smelly, ball crazy dudes who think their sister is old just cuz she's seen eric cantona wear the number 7 shirt... no politics involved. no chauvinism. no bureaucracy. no need to dig up contacts in gmail. you can talk to yourself and smell like dung and they will probably think you're completely turned on by their mating rituals.

sounds like the kind of job i should be in.