Best theological commentary of the day/week from Chris Hedges with the occupiers on Wall Street, speaking of the corporate class creating and perpetuating "Systems of Death."
In a ringing clarion call of support for the Wall Street Occupies, Chris pleads for solidarity and support for them and calls for a rejection of "the distorted and perverted values system that defines the commodity culture". ..."We have to go back to the wisdom of the religious left..Dorothy Day, the Berrigans, King...that we have a moral imperative to fight for life....Camus writes about this, 'If we're not physcially involved in an act of rebellion (against these systems of death) then it's spiritual death'. ...As a Christian anarchist, I believe that we are called to do the good."
"The disease of empires, all throughout history, is brought back to the Homeland. Thucydides wrote about it on Athens, that Athens's expanding empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home, so that the tyranny that Athens imposed on others, it eventually imposed on itself. And that's what we've done.
"The disease of empires, all throughout history, is brought back to the Homeland. Thucydides wrote about it on Athens, that Athens's expanding empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home, so that the tyranny that Athens imposed on others, it eventually imposed on itself. And that's what we've done.
Essentially, we are being given a wake up call - to emerge from the night of death around us.
See the five part live interview here at Truth Dig.
Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of
hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or
comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally
faith. They sleep on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled.
They have eaten more bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought
possible. They have tasted fear, been beaten, gone to jail, been blinded
by pepper spray, cried, hugged each other, laughed, sung, talked too
long in general assemblies, seen their chants drift upward to the office
towers above them, wondered if it is worth it, if anyone cares, if they
will win. But as long as they remain steadfast they point the way out
of the corporate labyrinth. This is what it means to be alive. They are
the best among us.
Read Chris's commentary here:
From The Guardian
“We might do well to consider the collapse of the European colonial empires. It certainly did not lead to the rich successfully grabbing all the cookies, but to the creation of the modern welfare state. We don’t know precisely what will come out of this round. But if the occupiers finally manage to break the 30-year stranglehold that has been placed on the human imagination, as in those first weeks after September 2008, everything will once again be on the table – and the occupiers of Wall Street and other cities around the US will have done us the greatest favour anyone possibly can.”
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