Ah, but you who don't think we Anglo-Saxons have been unfaithful to indigenous peoples of the lands we moved here to claim as our own. look you well:
We the triumphant heirs of those warlike, Marcomanni, Alamanni, Franks, Angles, and Saxons, who now share power over the Earth only with the Han of China, are remarkable in many respects. Our works of art have not been equaled since 560 BCE. Our manipulation of the stuff of this world is unparalled: we go to Mars!; We have bestowed upon our children the Mushroom Cloud! Michelangelo and the destruction of all life on Earth! Wow!
I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, scene 2
We for all our power are not good stewards of the lands we now temporarily occupy.
There are too many of us and our increase continues at a pace; w eat up all there is.
We are Chögyam Trumpa Rinpoche's Hungry Ghost -- a being with a huge belly and a tiny mouth trying to stuff the world though that tiny mouth, and never do we fill up the wanting void at the center of our being.
It is time now, that we listened the the ancient peoples of the world; the ones we should have lived with in peace not war these long centuries.
In particular now, today,
GET YOUR DESTRUCTIVE ARMIES
OFF DAKOTA LAND.
LEAVE IT TO THE SIOUX
WHO LIVE THERE
TO DETERMINE WHAT
LEAKY OIL PIPES
SHOULD CROSS THE LANDS,
DRILL UNDER THEIR RIVERS.
They can't make worse decisions that the good Burghers of Bismarck, ND,
who successfully stopped the pipes from poisoning their land! Shortsighted, selfish buggers!
"Go yonder and poison Indian land" the Burghers said. "They're just niggers. What do they matter?"
And the Oil Barons and their government lackeys agreed.
There is no possible justification for moving the clearly-set-out route of the poison lines from Bismarck to Standing Ruck because citizens of Bismarck prefer that Native Americans be be poisoned instead. No other justification has been offered. None other is possible.
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war!
Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1,
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Oh? You don't think we have dogs of war? Don't think we can raise a ruckus if we are pushed too far?
Keep on as you're doing at Standing Rock and see.
Next week the Armed Forces of the United States will knock down the shelters that folks have built at Standing Rock to shelter them from the storms of winter while they keep vigil...
Someone is likely to die.
It is likely to be one of the water protectors.
Given Mr. Trump's lack of empathy -- like Nixon's -- a lot of people are likely to die throughout the world before the Revolution runs its course.
I'll not sew the end of it. My children will see the beginning of the end of it. My grandchildren will see how it plays out.
I hope the Revolution's end is as peaceful and beneficial as the Revolution Nixon unintentionally engendered.
This time, though, it won't be Christian Evangelicals on other end. It will be all the wealth and power of the 1% of the whole world, against all the unrest and rage of the rest of us.
We know how the French Revolution, which went up against great wealth, turned out.
Hope the guillotine isn't brought back.
But --
He said -
How could it come to this?
We're really worried about living.
How could it come to this?
Yeah we really wanna know about this.
World Party - Is It Like Today?
For a more sophisticated analysis of inequality in the United States and pre-Revolutionary France,see James Traub, Let them eat apple pie: inequality in the US, an article in Foreign Policy Magazine, published in full in the Sydney Morning World, May 13, ,2014.
Someone died at Kent State, when Nixon useda rule of "Law and Order"
That Kent State death marked one of the starts of a series of cultural revolutions in the World that are still going on today.
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