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Know That You Live By The Grace Of Others by Lee Raymond
July 31st, 2006 10:27 AM
Oh Baby Don't I know it.
For most of my life I have made money from selling gasoline.
Every time you fill up to drive down to the movies or the flea market or whatever, you are reaching out and tounching me, right in my wallet. Hybrid, Compact, SUV, Doesn't matter, it's all gravy.
Every thing you eat, the products on your shelves, hell even the batteries in your vibrator had to get to you somehow. You think that organic juice bullshit is going to walk itself over your little hippie co-op. grow up.
Also, this beautiful tapestry connects us all, and me and mine, to the world stage. Whenever some brown person goes and blows himself or the jews get uppity, the market panics and guess what? Prices shoot on up. Then we send our best and brightest to go put holes in the locals, and prices shoot up even higher! Ever think they're goind down? Welcome to the real world.
Yup, it's a beautiful thing.
For most of my life I have made money from selling gasoline.
Every time you fill up to drive down to the movies or the flea market or whatever, you are reaching out and tounching me, right in my wallet. Hybrid, Compact, SUV, Doesn't matter, it's all gravy.
Every thing you eat, the products on your shelves, hell even the batteries in your vibrator had to get to you somehow. You think that organic juice bullshit is going to walk itself over your little hippie co-op. grow up.
Also, this beautiful tapestry connects us all, and me and mine, to the world stage. Whenever some brown person goes and blows himself or the jews get uppity, the market panics and guess what? Prices shoot on up. Then we send our best and brightest to go put holes in the locals, and prices shoot up even higher! Ever think they're goind down? Welcome to the real world.
Yup, it's a beautiful thing.
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posted by SNORLAX on July 31st, 2006 1:53 PM
You are right, but I think Robertish makes a more important point. Capitalism (and the creature comforts that come with it) is a fact of life, but at least help bring out the positive.
posted by Lee Raymond on July 31st, 2006 1:59 PM
The only thing I feel guilty about is letting Greenspan open his fucking mouth at the AIE luncheon.
I sure don't feel guilty about my $ 400 retirement package.
Get a haircut.
posted by spotlight skullshines on August 1st, 2006 12:36 PM
i already cut may hair you old fucking turkey neck.
come over here and ill grip that gullet and squeeze and kill you with my bare hands
faster than ghandi could say satyagraha.
patience is about struggle, and i will enjoy watching you struggle under my thumbs.
die piece of shit!
i saw a film recently called "valley of the wolves", it takes place in Iraq.
theres a righteous spiritual leader in it who, after whitnessing the attendants at his adopted daughters wedding
have "holes put in them" (as you so empathetically put it), goes and rescues a kidnapped american journalist from being beheaded.
(he is such an important figure in the region that his very presence caused the kidnappers to put down their sword)
But before riding off to go do this, one of his followers tuggs his sleeve begging him to stay, to be patient, that this violence would pass.
He said something along the lines of,
"patience does not mean to bow, patience means to struggle"
while there are an infinite ammount of ways your story as a major gas company owner and this fictional iraqi sheiks stories do not parallel, i beleive the quote might be useful to you.
Clearly you feel guilt about your contribution.
Stop it then.
Youre right, our economy is based on gas, I work for one of those hippie juice companies, im not high up in the chain whatsoever, so i dont take your comments personally ... in fact, youre quite right, it pisses me off how much gets wasted there. But arent there positive things that we can focus on?!?! The one i work for, for example, gets many ingredieants fair trade from womens cooperatives in 3rd world nations. Change comes slow and in little bits, but if we continue to struggle with it, and struggle in our persistent patience, we may find that change is possible. It might come in larger bits if someone powerful like you started to move in the right direction.
The only alternative seems to be to accept war, resign to violence and hate ourselves for it.
This deciscion you make will affect your community around you, everyone you interact with will feel, in your every action, either your rage and self hate or your optimism and sense of empowerment.
Make things start to move in a positive way, we all have to try to be sources of joy of empowerment or change. Go get a diesel and run it on veggie oil. I'm in the process of doing this and if you dont know what i mean, message me and i will help. No matter how shady a history you have Lee, we can all change.