Tars
07-15-2010, 08:40 AM
From OpEdNews (https://www.opednews.com/):
Self Defense for Radicals: Collective Soul + Activist Heart (https://www.opednews.com/articles/Self-Defense-for-Radicals-by-Mickey-Z-100714-740.html)
by Mickey Z.
Excerpt:
"*We're not victims (remember: victims are helpless) but we are volunteers. Due to our compliance and/or silence and/or inaction, we've played a role in bringing our culture to the brink of social, economic, and environmental collapse.
*We're not being "attacked" for our choices. For the record, I prefer to save the word "attack" for, say, those being targeted by American predator drones (subsidized by our tax dollars).
*We're not being judged as guilty. It's a little too late for that.
*We're not being judged as innocent either. We're all participants and/or witnesses (see above).
*We may think it's not "fair" that we're the generation that has to change everything about the way we live"but to paraphrase Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven: "Fair's got nothing to do with it."
*We are not alone. In the book (and movie), The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad sez: "Maybe we're not all individual souls, but maybe we're all part of one big soul." Incredibly basic, yes"but within that simplicity lies what I see as the secret: If we were to view all living things--along with ourselves--as part of one collective soul (https://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/collective-soul-defending-nature.html), how could we not defend that soul by any means necessary?
2. The 4 R's of defending our collective soul
(to be taken as literally or metaphorically as you choose)"
Self Defense for Radicals: Collective Soul + Activist Heart (https://www.opednews.com/articles/Self-Defense-for-Radicals-by-Mickey-Z-100714-740.html)
by Mickey Z.
Excerpt:
"*We're not victims (remember: victims are helpless) but we are volunteers. Due to our compliance and/or silence and/or inaction, we've played a role in bringing our culture to the brink of social, economic, and environmental collapse.
*We're not being "attacked" for our choices. For the record, I prefer to save the word "attack" for, say, those being targeted by American predator drones (subsidized by our tax dollars).
*We're not being judged as guilty. It's a little too late for that.
*We're not being judged as innocent either. We're all participants and/or witnesses (see above).
*We may think it's not "fair" that we're the generation that has to change everything about the way we live"but to paraphrase Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven: "Fair's got nothing to do with it."
*We are not alone. In the book (and movie), The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad sez: "Maybe we're not all individual souls, but maybe we're all part of one big soul." Incredibly basic, yes"but within that simplicity lies what I see as the secret: If we were to view all living things--along with ourselves--as part of one collective soul (https://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/collective-soul-defending-nature.html), how could we not defend that soul by any means necessary?
2. The 4 R's of defending our collective soul
(to be taken as literally or metaphorically as you choose)"