10-09-2009, 09:00 PM
"One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop.
If only we rid ourselves of Chinese, white men will have jobs and white women will have virtue, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Indians, we will fulfill our Manifest Destiny, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Canaanites, we will live in the Promised Land, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Jews, we can build and maintain a Thousand Year Reich, and then we can stop killing.
If only we stop the Soviet Union, we can stop the killing (remember the Peace Dividend that never materialized?).
If only we can take out the worldwide terrorist network of bin Laden and others like him.
If only.
But the killing never stops. Always a new enemy to be hated is found."
— Derrick Jensen
It is the people who are "different" from us.... the brown skinned ones, those who pray to a different deity, those whose land, labor, resources we have used up (or desire unfettered), those who have something against their games of greed, fear, pillage, theft, fraud, corruption, pathology, murder, genocide, ecocide.
If only we rid ourselves of Chinese, white men will have jobs and white women will have virtue, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Indians, we will fulfill our Manifest Destiny, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Canaanites, we will live in the Promised Land, and then we can stop killing.
If only we rid ourselves of Jews, we can build and maintain a Thousand Year Reich, and then we can stop killing.
If only we stop the Soviet Union, we can stop the killing (remember the Peace Dividend that never materialized?).
If only we can take out the worldwide terrorist network of bin Laden and others like him.
If only.
But the killing never stops. Always a new enemy to be hated is found."
— Derrick Jensen
It is the people who are "different" from us.... the brown skinned ones, those who pray to a different deity, those whose land, labor, resources we have used up (or desire unfettered), those who have something against their games of greed, fear, pillage, theft, fraud, corruption, pathology, murder, genocide, ecocide.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"