"Mad" Miles
07-29-2011, 11:00 PM
On the Murders in Norway: The Need for a Multicultural Vision (https://starhawksblog.org/)
By Starhawk (https://starhawksblog.org/?author=2) | Published: <abbr class="published" title="2011-07-28T13:08:45+0000">July 28, 2011</abbr>
This summer has been a whirlwind of teaching permaculture and working on making a movie from my novel, T (https://fifthsacredthing.com/home/)he Fifth Sacred Thing (https://fifthsacredthing.com/home/). But a few days ago I took a break to attend a performance of Guys and Dolls put on by SF Arts Education (https://www.sfartsed.org/), in which my fifteen-year old Goddess-child Kore was singing and dancing. SF Arts Ed runs a wonderful program where students from middle schools and high schools put on Broadway musicals, complete with singing, dancing, and a full jazz orchestra. We had balcony seats behind the stage, so I was looking down on these bright and beautiful young people of all different backgrounds and ancestry, reflecting the multicultural nature of San Francisco itself. They are a talented bunch, but I also know how hard they work, how much time they rehearse and the discipline they develop. What a gift it is to have such wonderful youth growing up in our city!
Weighing on my mind were the terrible murders in Norway, where Anders Behring Breivik blew up government buildings and then went on a shooting rampage at a camp full of young people. His avowed intention was to somehow defend the purity of Norwegian and Christian culture against Moslems and others who in his mind are undesirable. He apparently fantasized himself as some sort of modern-day crusader.
Breivik is clearly insane—meaning, far off the spectrum of consensus reality. Unfortunately, there are many others who share his views if not his eagerness to commit mass murder. (Snip)
https://starhawksblog.org/
By Starhawk (https://starhawksblog.org/?author=2) | Published: <abbr class="published" title="2011-07-28T13:08:45+0000">July 28, 2011</abbr>
This summer has been a whirlwind of teaching permaculture and working on making a movie from my novel, T (https://fifthsacredthing.com/home/)he Fifth Sacred Thing (https://fifthsacredthing.com/home/). But a few days ago I took a break to attend a performance of Guys and Dolls put on by SF Arts Education (https://www.sfartsed.org/), in which my fifteen-year old Goddess-child Kore was singing and dancing. SF Arts Ed runs a wonderful program where students from middle schools and high schools put on Broadway musicals, complete with singing, dancing, and a full jazz orchestra. We had balcony seats behind the stage, so I was looking down on these bright and beautiful young people of all different backgrounds and ancestry, reflecting the multicultural nature of San Francisco itself. They are a talented bunch, but I also know how hard they work, how much time they rehearse and the discipline they develop. What a gift it is to have such wonderful youth growing up in our city!
Weighing on my mind were the terrible murders in Norway, where Anders Behring Breivik blew up government buildings and then went on a shooting rampage at a camp full of young people. His avowed intention was to somehow defend the purity of Norwegian and Christian culture against Moslems and others who in his mind are undesirable. He apparently fantasized himself as some sort of modern-day crusader.
Breivik is clearly insane—meaning, far off the spectrum of consensus reality. Unfortunately, there are many others who share his views if not his eagerness to commit mass murder. (Snip)
https://starhawksblog.org/