EDITOR'S THOUGHTS
(The following opinions belong to the editor - and do not
represent the overall Tea forum.)
- "A room without books is a body without soul." Cicero wrote that. How true. There are few things more pitiful (aside from human pain, suffering and the like) than a soulless room, a room lacking books. I wonder how folks can live without books - or without more than just a Reader's Digest volume or the latest hyped-up junk. You folks know who you are. Get some books. Get some soul. (Thanks to Mel for turning me on to that Cicero bit, by the way.)
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Painter Archibald Motley offered advice to his fellow black folk
(and seemed to imply all folk) in
1978 (emphasis added): "Forget about this damned racism, to hell with
racism. That's never going to get you anywhere squabbling about
somebody being white, or somebody being red, black, or yellow.
"That means nothing to an artist. We're all human beings.
And the sooner that's [racism] forgotten and the sooner that you can COME
BACK TO YOURSELF and do the things you want to do, and to hell with the
world - go ahead and do those things."
- I hear folks worrying about this violent, foolish world and wishing for a hero, someone (usually a leader) who will fix problems, usher in peace, reduce fear and bring prosperity. Guess what? I don't WANT a hero! I don't wish for a savior leader from this world to soothe my anxiety and award us with comfort and treats! The prospect makes my skin crawl! Minced poison is hardly better than obvious putrescence. Human heroism is incidental, trustworthy on a small scale. National and global proportions raises my eyebrow, makes me wary, suggests a grinning Big Bad Wolf.
- Check out the newly added transcripts of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois passages and quotes. I had difficulty narrowing down what bits to post. There are so many gems.
- "Public school teachers in the Netherlands and France fear teaching the Holocaust because of threats made by Moslem students and their parents..."
A new documentary, narrated by Kevin Costner, covers the resurgence of down-home European Jew hatred: Ever Again. Seems worth checking out.
A colleague recently shared this disgusting news about Hitlerian sickness in a child - and the resulting support: "Anti-Semitic poem in children’s school book."
I
know that that wasn't a matter of literary license. For one,
children of that age haven't the knowledge or capacity for literary
license.
This evil resurges in "civilized" Europe every several decades or centuries or so. ARTICLE here.
- Shame on slimebag Kamau Kambon for calling for the EXTERMINATION OF WHITE PEOPLE as his "only conclusion!" A clip (emphasis added): "We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem." His sick rhetoric is quite similar to Josef Goebbels' rallying speech about the Jewish threat and the justification of annihilation. [Full article here.]
Kambon said whites want to kill all blacks and went from there. After claiming that Jews sought to kill Germans, Kambon's ideological cousin Goebbels condoned extreme measures to counter them, namely the "Night of Broken Glass" and subsequent evil. Goebbels sounded a lot like Kambon the Scumbag when he said things like: "[T]he Jews will pay with extermination of their race in Europe and perhaps beyond."
Hmm. Very familiar. Replace "Jews" with "whites." This man is what's wrong with perpetual hatred and evil, no matter toward what kind. Shame on you, Kamau Kambon! Not surprisingly, the media isn't whipping up mass condemnation of your disgusting comments - but many of us know your demonic game, you spoiled brat, you spite profiteer, you lousy fake. Heil Kambon!
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Murderous thug Che Guevara (whitewashed by foolish fans like
Robert Redford and misguided groupies wearing the iconic T-shirts),
who massacred his opponents - including children - against the paredon
said: "To send men to
the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an
archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must
become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the
pedagogy of the [the wall]!"
Arbitrary standards often trump individuals' dignity/rights, making the mighty and/or the ideologue the "right." Che the butcher knew this. He encouraged hateful mass slaughter: "Let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeois – more blood, as much as possible."
And
The
Motorcycle Diaries
gets standing ovations from Hollywood clowns. Sigh...
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C.S.
Lewis sensibly addressed the legality/illegality of homosexuality and
the non-jurisdiction of government in a 1958 letter (emphasis added):
"...no sin, simply as such, should be made a crime. Who the
deuce are our rulers to enforce their opinions about sin on us?...Of
course many acts which are sins against God are also injuries to our
fellow-citizens, and must on that account, but only on that account, be
made crimes. But of all the sins in the world I should have thought
homosexuality was the one that least concerns the State. We hear too
much of the State. Government is at its best a necessary evil.
Let's keep it in its place."
- W.H. Auden made a great point: "[Poets'] natural interest is in singular individuals and personal relations, while politics and economics are concerned with large numbers of people, hence with the human average (the poet is bored to death by the idea of the Common Man)."
Enjoy the Tea, folks.
David Herrle 10/2005