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* * * * At day’s first light, have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that “I am rising for the work of man.”
Must I grumble at setting out to do what I was born for and for the sake of which I have been brought into the world?
Is this the purpose of my creation, to lie here under my blankets and keep myself warm? “Ah, but it is a great deal more pleasant!” Was it for pleasure, then, that you were born and not for work?
—Marcus Aurelius
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Time swiftly passes by
and opportunity is lost.
Each of us should strive to awaken--
Awaken!
This night your days will be diminished by one. Take heed. Do not squander your life.
—Zen Evening Gatha
Take an ax to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
—Rumi, Quietness
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Horticulturalists should develop strains of chocolate that grow in climates within the U.S. It should take less than 100 years.
Shalom Ryan,
That’s probably true.
But our response to injustice should not be avoidance, but rather engagement.
How much better might our situation be in the Middle East today if we had addressed issues of justice there from the beginning rather than supporting whatever governments or monarchies that provided us with the cheapest oil?
B’shalom,
Jeff
i believe freedom and democracy are mutually exclusive ideals, let alone practices. Foisting Democracy on places is something we use to justify our interventions, which often turn out bad. Or at least contrary to what the foisters wanted. When there is export money in chocolate, there will be war over chocolate. when there are export profits in any commodity, there will be war over that commodity. In the cold war days it was possible to keep those wars going indefinitely, as each major power vied to prop up a proxy that had some nominal association with their ideology. The Europeans should be dealing with African problems, we should be importing chocolate from south and central america only.
Shalom Ryan,
If your definition of Freedom is the anarchist’s concept of freedom of, as in freedom to do as you desire, then you can make a case that Democracy and its social structure are antithetical to Anarchy.
But the flip side of the coin is freedom from, as in President Franklin Roosevelt’s four freedoms from: freedom from censorship; freedom from spiritual persecution, freedom from need; and freedom from lawless violence.
Boycotts can be effective, and a world wide boycott of chocolate from Africa would be effective; until the criminals found another way to exploit their source of free labor.
We don’t treat cancers by isolating them, we hunt them down and either destroy them in place or remove them from the body.
B’shalom,
Jeff