Yesterday my car decided it didn’t like snow and went on strike! Inconvenient as this is, there’s a part of me enjoying the by-product of the misfortune of being car less.
Friends have been incredible… kind with their help…. generous with their time… and more than delighted to rally around. In total I’ve had no less than 8 offers to counsel .. i mean ‘look’ at my car, 12 offers to bring me shopping and supplies and even an offer to be housed in the village where i work and where my boys go to school!
For the first time in a very long time I’ve been watching TV mostly the news and it struck me that the current economic system sucks. I’ve decided that the human family cannot live harmoniously on our wee planet under a system that rewards greed whilst causing widespread damage and injustice.
Whilst I’ve always personally subscribe to social change i hope that recent events will turn the focus for many more. I had long been demoralised to watch capitalism being overblown into a kind of mythology entity - wherein the shapeless, but far reaching ‘market’ has developed almost magical powers. But this year it has simply gone too far.
Bankers are supposed to be stewards of our money… we have a right to feel angry that they have allowed reckless greed and personal gain to denigrate the whole system. How right Lenin was when he said that the rich can buy themselves out of anything - so long as they get the rest of us to pay for it!! - Seems to me that this is exactly what is happening. Governments are so far in cahoots with global business’ and held to economic ransom by their wealth that they can no longer function to protect the interests of the very people who they have swore not serve. Public Servants? Indeed, i think not!
This combined with the generosity of my friends and neighbours has reminded me of a few lines of questions from ‘choruses from the rock’. Where T S Eliot asks:
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell together To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?
Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
After the last two days, my answer has been reaffirmed. I feel confident as to what motivates me to be who i am is human…. can the same be said for everyone?
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