i do like how you choose to illustrate this

(oh, and i love your new banner)

 

thanks

i think the speech is sort of striking in itself but i looked through quite a few gruesome oil spill pictures.

ugh

 

Great post T-thumper. The speech was a childhood staple actually read to a my public school class by a rare breed of teacher.
great supporting pics.

I like your A.E. banner I tried to post mine to Z's forum (as A.E.) but coded it incorrectly.

forget to look but in addition to your H. Ford post did anybody mention Prescott Bush?

peace bud!

 

no one mentioned him but i have in a previous post.

http://imageshack.us should work for loading pics up to mickeys.

 

wise words from a wise man

 

Nice post. There's some question as to the authenticity of this letter/speech, however. One version was definitely written by playwright Ted Perry.

However, the same is said of Black Elk Speaks. Some claim that Neihardt took liberties in his translation. One anthro prof I had once claimed that this all simply perpetuates the "Noble Savage" myth. But we Noble Savages/Savage Nobles (globally, non-state, tribal folks) have been saying the same thing for a long time. Let's hope we last long enough to keep saying it!

Here's an alright translation of Calgacus' words, the first recorded Scot (from Tacitus' Agricola):

"Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep [waters]. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a desert and call it peace."

Sorry for the long comment. It's only cuz we like you.

 

That's about the saddest damn juxtaposition of words and images I've ever seen. The junkpeddlars have won out.

 

Love the banner. Great post. that is what privatizating everything does to the world

 

thanks to the guerillas for the excellent comments. (and to 'the gorillaz' for having one or two decent tunes - but thats another story)

privatising = stealing.

thats not to say i am going to get into the 'property is theft' thing because certain people WILFULLY misunderstanding/misrepresenting that concept has held progress back for years.

you can't ever debate these things without someone standing up and saying 'so you don't believe in provate property? so you don't think i should be allowed to have CDs or DVDs?'

shit like that. it becomes a struggle when you are saying that is not really what you mean by private property. people always seem to think that that is what you mean and it is incredibly frustrating.

 

Heartbreaking.

 

Very true. It's amazing how modern man has done such a wonderful job at f*cking up the earth.

 

Not that it's anything everyone else hasn't said, but damn that's some strong stuff. It's awful what people do -- to one another, to the environment, to themselves... it's even more awful that they don't seem to learn till it's too late...

 

hi drew and lindy

yeah, its awful. it needs massive government and massive alterations in the way we live our lives before any of this is going to change.

as was mentioned above, there are doubts about the authenticity of this piece but whoever wrote was spot on

 

there are not enough tears....

the great Chief really understood Greed...but he also understood what this Earth is susposed to be about....

and yes the pictures really add to the speech....

We have been warned and next summer will be worse...
the Ancestors are speaking ....

beautiful haunting post....