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marieclaire
Don't you ever let me see you blogging with a mouthfulof food again, my girl!
posted by
ariel70
on October 25, 2006 at 2:02 PM
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well written.
writing this with a mouthful of food...
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 24, 2006 at 12:20 PM
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Hi there. Good to read these observations on our incredible selfishness...
I don't mean we are evil, just that all people have a tendency to selfishness. i think we do care, but often we hide behind reasons for not giving up more wealth by our innate competitiveness and wish for our children to keep ahead or at least keep up with other people's children in the race. On this point, we are quick to condemn the so-called lazy poor because they are not all entrepreneurs starting up their own businesses (businesses that their fathers and mothers never had, for which therefore no expertise or assets exist to hand down, seeing as their forebears were factory workers, with skills now redundant in the west), and because they refuse to work hard for peanuts and pay taxes when the state is giving them an equal amount of money for doing nothing. But they are not - they are behaving logically bearing in mind the economic realities.
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 24, 2006 at 12:07 PM
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Ariel, I'm no classical scholar, so my only measure of a poem is if it
moves me and it seems reasonably coherent. Caesar's tears shoudl fall for the poor,the lame and the helpless. Arrogance is outrage, and apathy and indifference an affront to God, who loves everyone the same, regardless of rank and station.
Even if I am poor, bearing in mind the sufferings of others, keeps my own in perspective. My poorest day in this rich country is a palace to some others.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 24, 2006 at 10:48 AM
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Ariel, very intense and the emotions are raw but controlled...good work!
posted by
Ariala
on October 24, 2006 at 8:59 AM
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