To imitate
Nature, to join her and to be bound to her rather than seeking always to
transform her, is the goal that could rescue the race from barbarism and
darkness……….If, within Nature, humans are conscious, ought we
not consciously strive to be the consciousness of Nature?
Monday 29 October 2012
Monday 22 October 2012
Mary McCann - ‘Working for Moloch
The
cleaners are scrubbing the Institute lavatories
because women are
supposed to do that
the girls are typing
in the Institute offices because women are dedicated and careful
the women are
assembling printed circuits because women are good at delicate work and women's
eyes are expendable
the young men are
doing their PhD's because young men are obedient and ambitious
and someone wants
warheads
laser rangefinders
hunt and destroy
capabilities
multichannel night
seeking radar
and science is
neutral
back home the wives
of the PhD students are having babies
because women are
maternal and loving
and who else can
have children but women?
at the top of the
tower the old men and the middle aged men
and sometimes one
woman professor
meet to form plans, cadge funds and
run the place
because obedient
young men turn into obedient old men
and it's all for the
good of the country
and defence funds
are good for science
and science is
neutral
and no one notices
Moloch
the women bring them
clean toilets
cups of coffee
typescripts
micro circuits oh so
neatly assembled
and children
and it's hard to see
Moloch because he is both far away
and
everywhere
and no one asks to
whom they are all obedient
and they say, "Who's
Moloch? Never heard of him"
as out in the dark
Moloch belches
and grows redder and
redder
and fatter and
fatter
as he eats the
children
This weeks Green Thought is ‘Working for Moloch’ by Mary McCann (1992). First published by Pomegranate Women's Writing Group found in Alastair McIntosh's Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power.
Moloch was a deity worshipped by the people of Jordan in Old Testament times (see
Leviticus 20: 2-5). The chief feature of such worship was the sacrifice of children to
secure power and riches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Monday 15 October 2012
R.D.Laing
“Children are not yet
fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.’s
if possible. From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the
twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence,
called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents
before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most
of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful. By the
time the new human being is fifteen or so, we are left with a being like
ourselves, a half-crazed creature more or less adjusted to a mad world. This is
normality in our present age.”
This weeks thought comes from R.D.Laing (1927–1989) the Scottish psychiatrist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing
Monday 8 October 2012
Mick Farr - ‘Kick out the Gyms’
"……close
all the gyms in the world – so that there would be no idiots driving to
go to them (think about it) so that all their energy consuming equipment,
heating, and environmental control, would be switched off for ever.
As an
alternative, people can go out shovel and hard brush in hand in droves, to
clean and sweep away the litter, clean away the junk infested roads land and
streets, weed the gutters, by hand, have speed competitions on these
activities, and that speed gutter cleaning would be introduced as an Olympic
sport immediately."
This weeks Green Thought comes from ‘Kick out the Gyms’ an e-mail sent in
October 2012 by Mick Farr of Yeovil – commenting on the poor quality of
last weeks Green Thought.
Monday 1 October 2012
Stephen Dedalus - Ulysses by James Joyce
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
This weeks Green Thought comes from the character Stephen Dadalus, in Ulysses the 1922 book by James Joyce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_joyce
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