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A Consumer is a Subject, A Citizen is a Verb
July 16, 20108 Comments
Somewhere along the way a mutation was engineered. You are now a Consumer. You have deformed into a buying machine. A Consumer is a Subject. In the days of Kings the Subjects had no choice. They were ruled by a superior social order or military force. In our day we actively accept being Subjects.
Lemme see if I got this straight. Being true to your calling as an independent media reporter is to be “a rat in an eagle’s nest,” and one taking the fourth estate seroiusly has “never served his country” the way a military general has. And, to be a qualified Supreme Court Justice you have to bow before the Imperial Altar of the United States Armed Forces, extolling military service as “that most honorable kind of service that a person can do for her country.”
Manute’s Millionaire (Widow’s) Mite
June 26, 2010No Comments
“Manute gave his life for his country in all kinds of aspects,” said Bol’s friend, Tom Prichard, executive director of Sudan Sunrise, a humanitarian organization aimed at unity in Sudan. Their mission: “To bring peace. To stop injustice. To grow reconciliation.”
I’ll have to say I get the keyboard blues being constantly compelled to call out “Christians” who practice tribal religion in lieu of Jesus infused Christianity. We’ve got legions of ‘em here in the Lone Star State. They populate and dominate our Death Penalty industry.
An Ancient Jewish Avatar and a Contemporary Buddhist King unite old money religion and new money religion in an eternal ethos. “My deepest concern is that as the world changes we may lose these fundamental values on which rest our character as a nation and people. It is critical that we are able to recognize Bhutanese character irrespective of how far we look back into the past or into the future.”