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Mickey Z
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
"Great Feelings of Love"
More thoughts on dissent and personal responsibility:
Thich Nhat Hanh says:
“Do not accumulate wealth while millions are hungry. Live simply.”
Without waiting one minute longer, we can each commence the reinvention of our everyday lives and challenge the cookie-cutter formulas force-fed to us from cradle to grave. We can disobey. We don’t have to eat their food or worship their god or fully accept their government. We also don’t have to visit their doctors or take their medicines or use their deodorants, colognes, toothpaste, and toxic products of all kinds; we don’t need their accepted academic credentials or their cars, SUVs, and other death machines. We can say no to engaging in conspicuous consumption, creating unnecessary waste, or purchasing items made by slave or sweatshop labor. This simple strategy is far more menacing and radical—and effective—than it first appears. If more of us were to embrace such basic lifestyle changes, the corporate commodity culture would not only be seriously challenged…but more and more Americans would become receptive to new ideas through the motivating power of example.
In a 21st century white supremacist capitalist patriarchy like America,
lifestyle choices are more powerful and important than voting choices...and
challenging the power structure and the social conditioning in such a manner is in and of itself a revolutionary act.
Che Guevara says:
“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
If Che was right, comrades, well: It’s time to start showing the world some love.
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