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“How you spend each pound has become the new way of voting. It’s certainly not a democratic process though, as George Monbiot says, as some people have a lot more votes to cast than others, and it is precisely those with the most votes (euro’s, pounds, dollars etc.) that are the most unlikely to want to change the status quo. Having said that, how we spend our money (or don’t) will have a huge impact on the market and where cash is invested. And by diverting our money away from destructive corporations towards small scale local people, we are giving the wealthy less votes to cast, meaning that those on lower incomes (organic farmers, craftspeople etc.) get more votes. This could perpetuate quite quickly as you can
imagine. We just need to give more votes to the people who we trust will also vote well!”
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One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a playworld which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s a small loss if the world’s as dull a place as you say.
Puddleglum in The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis (via chienlunatique)
I had to steal this. Thanks Anna.
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hoping there were some pillows underneath the girl.
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The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water.
Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.
It’s not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse.
What the human race needs is a lot more streakers
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People Like Us
Buy this book.
It’s written by Joris Luyendijk. He has been a reporter from the Middle-East for five years. As he started to get ”good” at the job he felt more and more uncomfortable with himself. Being a reporter meant translating press reports from home and ”being there” to report from location. To play the major part in a show. And by doing that he contributed to the wrung idea the Western World has about the Middle-East. In People Like Us he writes on what he couldn’t write about as a reporter. It’s honest and quite upsetting. And you should totally read it.
I got so dragged into the stories that I forgot to get off my train and I missed my train stop. And the next one. But it was well worth it.
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Today's thoughts
I am currently following lectures on Conflict and Dialogue in the Middle-East. It’s beyond interesting but slightly overwhelming.
We see all these things on the news and watch them to stay up to date. Now that I am forced to unravel their history, motives and politics, it’s simply impossible to just stay informed. I am watching people telling their stories. And as I watch, those people become real. They breathe the same air I breathe, fall in love, try to raise their children, strive to live according to the standards their religion has set for them. Just like me, or my sister, or my fellow students.
Today we watched ‘Inside HAMAS’. A documentary on the Gaza-Conflict. We watched Palestinians explaining why they do the things they do. Why they fire their guns, become a martyr, how they gave up their pride and have no choice but go try make a living on the street. We watched parents grieving the death of their children, HAMAS leaders arguing that terrorism is they only way forward. It was one hour of desperation, injustice, violence, revenge and no single solution.
No one is right. Every one is wrong.
HAMAS shoots the people that voted for them, al-Fatah blocks every single tunnel that allows food and medications to be transported to the Gaza Strip. Israel is not being any more peaceful. Russia and the VS support the whole thing by playing the weapon-donating sugar-daddy. There is no house in that area without bullets stuck in their wall and no back garden that allows children to play without risking injuries, or even death, by bomb attacks.
It makes me sad that religion in general is so subjective. All Palestinians really want is to build an Islamic State and live a life that pleases Allah. All Israelis want is to live in their ‘Promised Land’ to see God fulfill his promises. But that essence is getting lost in personal frustration, losses and a government that sees no other way to maintain order but aggression.
AND oh, our Western arrogance that makes us think we have the right to decide not to accept HAMAS as a political power.
I am not one that sais this very often: but since all institutions and attempts to get into a dialogue failed, since all VS’s and Russia’s money and all the hours the West spend on discussing this crazy situation FAILED…
Love seems to be our only way out. Nietsche said that those things that are being done out of love go beyond good and evil. We tried good, we tried evil. All we have now left is love. All we can now rely on is God. Not the God of the muslims, not the God of the Jews. The God of love.
I have never read a story about God that is more loving that the story of Jesus.
One dies to save many.
I like to shout how relying on that is naive.
But watching today’s documentary put me and my bravery to shame.
If I want to fix the world, I should get better at loving.
I should spend more time learning about Jesus.
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You can go now.
Face all the things you need to face.
Leave with nothing but be brave.
Promise me to smile,
at least once every day.
