Which came first: the chicken or the egg? – Is that anything like “violence begets violence”? How about; “Fix the problem, not the blame.”
“The World According to Doctrine” — “5K Run for Racism” T-Shirt
Tag: rural social justice
“The World According to Doctrine” — “Who’s Janet Fitchen?” Bumper sticker
Caring about people because they’re poor, disadvantaged, and underserved is no longer an acceptable reason – they must pass a demographic hurdle as well.
Rural people are too “white,” too different, and too . . . well, rural – to be the objects of anything but urban ridicule, bigotry, and racist profiling.
Rural communities across the country are being destroyed to fulfill the expansionist dreams of the New Urbanism: Urban Colonialism.
Who’s Janet Fitchen? The answer to that; is the answer to many questions.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “Non-Hispanic white” Bumper sticker
Supporters and sycophants quickly distance themselves; and attribute this policy to “government” – as if a government that commits acts of bigotry, discrimination, and suppression, has legitimacy.
And while it’s widely agreed that classifying people by what they are not, is demeaning – our government adamantly continues to retain this discriminatory policy.
Irish immigrants [both voluntary and involuntary] have a history and culture that deserves to be respected; not suppressed and erased. They are lumped together, with a dismissive indifference, with those who long oppressed them for their ethnicity and religious beliefs — while having a much cleaner “pedigree” than those who hold themselves separate and special.
It was Black Africans who enslaved the people; and Black Africans who sold them as a commodity – and Hispanics are the descendants of those who enslaved and oppressed the indigenous people of the Americas.
“Social Justice” is a policy of discrimination; seen through a “lens” that denies our individual worth as human beings — a mirror of the “people are commodities” attitude of the slave masters of the past — and the future.
Terms like “Non-Hispanic white” are a deliberate step in this realization.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “If the world of compassion was a stage” Bumper sticker
Looking at compassion quotes; they all have one thing in common; they are not conditional: they use words like “all,” “everyone,” “our,” “together.”
Compassion does not see race, gender, or perceived worth.
All our government and institutional policies have one thing in common — they lack compassion.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “They can’t see the mountains” Bumper sticker
Whether it’s drugs or Doctrine or race – impairment is obscuring a reasonable and rational appreciation of how people need to live together. Impairment not only blinds us to others; it blinds us to the dangers of our actions. We may wake up to our regret – or we may not wake up at all.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “It’s the lens they use” Bumper sticker
Lenses limit our field of view and magnify what we choose to look at. [No quibbling about types and properties of lenses to avoid dealing with the merits of the issue.]
In the Edgar Alan Poe story “The Sphinx” – a distant “monster” seen through the window; turns out to be an insect crawling upon a spider thread, along the window-sash. The “lens” in this case; is the Cholera epidemic that pervades the author’s thoughts.
“Lenses” built of fear and ignorance; can make a monster of anyone.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “No time like the pretext” Bumper sticker
Our government uses every opportunity to grasp more power – and pretexts are their most effective tool for achieving that goal. At the center of every solution is the opportunity acquire greater power: the power to decide and control everything and everyone.
Do you think this power will be used to help you? — Power does not work like that.
“The World According to Doctrine” — “Some people are first” Bumper sticker
“You’re nobody ‘til somebody loves you . . .” and you’re nobody until you are designated as worthy of regard. The best part of Social Justice Policies; is the overarching power they give government to classify and treat people differently – very differently.
Giving government power is the kernel of every new policy and regulation — and it’s the gold they wash our human worth away to find.
“New Book” – “Flow Chart Poetry 2”
It may be pointless bureaucratic chatter to you, but for them; it’s money in the bank – and traditional “Quid Pro Quo” politics. It may be wasting your time – but they’re being paid to waste your time: and the tip they’ll receive is to insure their career longevity.
The real power of public meetings is in the ability of those in charge to delay and deflect important matters with unimportant questions, quibbles, and investigations – and postpone the vital issues that you came to hear and comment on for a month, or two, or six . . . until they can be short-circuited, reimagined, or reformulated.
Unimportant matters are the grit in the wheels of public participation — a grit that’s never allowed in the smooth running machine of power.
“New Book” – “It’s the wind that prevails” Bumper sticker
In our authoritarian society; it’s all about force – whether it’s doctrinaire or regulatory, social or emotional: everything and everyone must be made to conform — or be destroyed.