By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I cant resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June 2005 about Americas addiction to Chinese exports:
Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the sheer amount of [garbage] Americans will buy. Often, when were assigned a new order for, say, salad shooters, I will say to myself, Theres no way that anyone will ever buy these. … Continue reading ‘Adam Gilad and Thomas Friedman On The Same Page’
PRAYER FOR PEACE
In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.
In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,
I will honor all life–
wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell–on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.
Diane Ackerman
Are we at the brink of collapse or the brink of a new cycle of human evolution?
Are we going to rebuild a rapacious old style capitalist system or build a new kind of capitalism that serves both ingenuity AND the common good?
Are we going to fall into food riots or produce organic local cornucopiae?
Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
