The World's One Hope Re: poor white republicans

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 4:31 PM -0500 2/25/03, Jessica LaBumbard wrote:
>They buy into this crap because: they don't see a way out of their 
>own situation
At 4:31 PM -0500 2/25/03, Jessica LaBumbard wrote:
>It does no good to fight becasue no one listens, and you can never 
>change anything in your own life, so why not have something to be 
>proud of?
At 4:31 PM -0500 2/25/03, Jessica LaBumbard wrote:
>Work, and you will get out.  Work, and do a good job.  Work and you 
>will get what you deserve.  People consistently tell me that it is 
>ok that some have more than others, because they worked for what 
>they got, and I will work for mine!  It doesn't make sense because 
>they work, work and work and get nothing for it, but it is the 
>internalized "pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
At 4:31 PM -0500 2/25/03, Jessica LaBumbard wrote:
>They feel disenfranchized as hell. They feel stuck. They feel all 
>sorts of things, so they take it out on whoever they can to feel 
>that they have some sort of power, or some sort of say in the world 
>since they don't have any over their own lives.

*****   The more there are sufferings, then, the more natural their 
sufferings appear.  Who wants to prevent the fishes in the sea from 
getting wet?

And the suffering themselves share this callousness towards 
themselves and are lacking in kindness towards themselves.

It is terrible that human beings so easily put up with existing 
conditions, not only with the sufferings of strangers but also with 
their own.

All those who have thought about the bad state of things refuse to 
appeal to the compassion of one group of people for another.  But the 
compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable.

It is the world's one hope.

(Bertolt Brecht, "The World's One Hope," from _Poems, 1913-1956_ 
[eds. John Willett and Ralph Manheim], Chapter VII "The Darkest 
Times, 1938-1941")   *****
-- 
Yoshie

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