Go to A Distant Drum of the Coming Revolution
- Add a comment
- Go to Third Grade Teacher Steals From Students to Teach Lie About Thanksgiving
Thanks, Solowriter, for your fascinating comment!
The point about ways of kufe being taken away is well taken, as it were, but what struck me about the lady's remark was the mention of those kids. The first thing that came to mind was the radcially lower infant and child mortality she and her little ones enjoy. Is that worth giving up for a return to the ways of long ago?
posted by
WriterofLight
on November 27, 2006 at 8:06 PM
| link to this | reply
I've seen things both ways, as my dad was born in a log cabin in the woods and later in his life inhabited a four level condo with a fantastic view of Puget Sound. His brothers built their lovely homes on their own land in the woods as they saw fit to build. They didn't always have the conveniences of living in town, but they had their own land.
I still await the day that I may return to the hardships of carving out my own home on my own land, growing my food and doing things in a way that seem a part of me, not a master plan of Nelda Wells Spears annual $5000 tax cut. Slave, slave, slave, and it still feels like a communist community, full of strangers and schools that go against the parents' wishes.
Now, if you take a way of life away from a people and hundreds of years later ask them, "Isn't it better now that we give you everything you never wanted and you don't have to have your dumb spirituality and your own dumb people anymore?" I think that even a person born and raised in the city amongst strangers would know there are important things stolen from us for the sakes of those smelly, noisy highways and those congested downtowns and those hordes of strangers everywhere you go, the constant bills and money struggles, and those office buildings that are so tall, you wonder why, instead of admiring their granduer.
posted by
Jenasis
on November 23, 2006 at 7:50 AM
| link to this | reply