[lit-ideas] For the Frontpage People
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:50:10 EDT
Hi,
This made me think of all the people who would prefer to hold, tight-fisted,
to what they have. To those who do not know how to share, how to assist the
Other to achieve the dreams that were had when they were young, or, even to
go to a Young One and ask what the dream is and to assist in making it
possible...
But, it also made me think of the ones that I know who drive the truck to
feed the homeless.
It made me think of the ones who give so much of their time so that Others
will be able to have a platform upon which to just BE.
It made me think of how some still do not value not the individual, but the
position or the money. The ones who believe more in 'market-driving' rather
than seeing the outcome to Society as well as the (eventual) market... It
made me think of those who are either mean or, at best, simply shortsighted.
It made me think of the people at the Top who walk on those at the Lower
Levels--of the victimizers who create more of the same because people do not
know
there is a Third Way if the tension is simply held long enough...
But, it also made me think of the new CEO of GE--I need to post the article
on the changes he is making. He's one of the 'good guys'...even to the point
where he wants to make GE go Green...(or, at least, greener <G>)
It made me think of those who are still unable to see the good in the Little
Ones, who blame the little ones for not being able to achieve their dreams
(I need to post *that* article, too--just read it about a week ago--which
talks frankly about how we are no longer able to even pursue life, liberty and
happiness--those doors are being locked...yet also how most people are living
in
denial of the facts ...and still think it is possible.)
But, it also made me think of those who DO care for the Other--and rather
than looking at the One who would prefer to not care or to share (perhaps
because he was victimized himself and is fearful of the world?)--I would rather
look at the rest...and know that I am in Good Company ... and that we can look
at this passage and know of what it says...
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys,
affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be
melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance
contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of
their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab
with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars,
measures were gauged by their dollars; life was
auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for
its dollars. The next respectable thing to
dollars was any venture having their attainment
for its end. The more of that worthless ballast,
honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast
overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and
Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had
for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and
mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for
an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out
stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded
soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag
to them!
-Charles Dickens
Thinking Frontpage people need to reread the books by Dickens,
Marlena in Missouri
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