Not that I care about politics or anything...
Well, I wish I didn't. Alexander Solzhenitsyn said of the Soviet government "Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them." I'm not sure I believe the government is totally irrelevant, but it's certainly impotent. I'm not about to stop voting or keeping up with the political happenings of our country, but I do think that if we want anything to happen, we'll have to do it outside of the usually avenues.
Wouldn't it be great if we could build communities in such a way that people invested in them? For instance, if we could get a critical mass of people in Flagstaff to honestly believe that everyone in the community is important to everyone else? From there, we could get some effective sustainable systems in place -- from the old standbys of riding the bus more and supporting local businesses to the creative new ideas we're still pondering.
Anyway, I was prompted to write by all of this to-do about the primaries and the Religious Right crowd. James Dobson is saying he won't vote for Rudy Giuliani under any circumstances. I'm wondering if conservative Christianity will ask "what would Jerry do?" about all of their candidates, now that Falwell died. Dobson went so far as to say that he'd either vote for an also-ran or not vote at all if Giuliani wins the primary.
That would mark a pretty hardcore fragmentation for the Republican Party. If Dobson's anti-Giuliani fervor gains steam, will his brand of Christian Republicans stay home? Will Giuliani stop pandering to them? Will the Republicans split?
I think either someone else will win the Republican primary or Dobson will rescind his remarks, figuring he'd take anyone over Hillary Clinton. I wonder why he hates Rudy so much. Is it because of the old abortion issue? Because of the divorces? Because he's Roman Catholic?
Ah, whatever. In other news, Hillary Clinton was a director for Wal-Mart.
Solzhenitsyn keeps sounding better. These people don't do anything for us; maybe if we stop doing anything for them, they'll decide they have to back up their rhetoric about serving the people..
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maybe if we stopped bending the knee to the almighty idol of capitalism, we might have a shot at true democracy. maybe if democracy genuinely reflected the deep values of the universe, trees would have votes too.
Yeah, definitely. Dave was telling me the other day that humus, as in dirt, is the root word for humility. Letting the trees vote would be a good thing (though I'm not exactly sure how we'd translate their sentiments).
So how do we do that? I mean, I realize it's a good suggestion about how to make our communities work better, but short of buying less ourselves, how do we (everyone) debunk the idea that capitalism is an ethos?
hey, i thought i posted another comment on your blog last night, but apparently it didn't show up? confusing.
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