Reply #6: Very moving, MoPaul. - I believe that our shame should be DEEP shame [View All]

[seventhson]

we live in the most "prosperous" country in the world and yet BILLIONS are starving and hungry and unsheltered and are oppressed or victimized by OUR COUNTRY and OUR CULTURE.

We are in denial about it.

But I work in the inner city and the courts where I see our own oppression of our OWN poor and oppressed daily. The misery and suffering is immeasurable it is so vast.

I do wat I can but I always feel that I am not doing enough.

We are in a global crisis and yet we are sitting on our asses with our thumbs up there too.

There is redemption, however, in action.

I think we are at least TRYING here at DU.

Shame at not doing all we can is a healthy emotion in my view - as long as it makes us want to do better and do more.

The shame of knowing that we could have stopped some suffering by our action and that our failure to act (out of fear or confusion or sloth or lack of imagination) resulted in the suffering of others SHOULD motivate us to change and to transform the world around us.

But this struggle against global fascism is an intergenerational struggle. It will not end in our lifetimes. It will not end in the lifetimes of our great grandchildren (unless the whole world dies - a very real possibility).

And so my greatest shame is for the unboirn generations of humanity to come. The untold billions who will suffer if we do not act NOW to stop the tide of hate and evil of the BFEE and their corporate Valkyrie plucking the dead from the earth for their booty and plunder and necrophilic desire for the power to mangle, mutilate and destroy humanity for profit, greed, mammon. lucre and surfeit.

Shame is one feeling I feel. I also feel rage. As a pacifist I have to channel that into a response with LOVE for humanity. All humanity.

But that is hard too.


Peace