Eat the same rations as a Syrian refugee in the week surrounding International Refugee Day, get sponsored and show refugees we're with them, not against them.
Register for this year’s Ration Challenge and survive on the same food rations as a Syrian
You tell'em Felix.
I'm an elder living in Brooklyn. The crap in that box looks like what I eat. Except for the fish,...I get spam. What do I win?
Mind you I care for them worse off.
I'd share what I have with that guy, and or gal up there for sure.
However ya think you might have a contest to see if you can eat like an American elder living on Social Security, and food supplements?
Any takers?
That box looks like just enough for eating to live, but nothing like enough for living to eat.
ReplyDeleteI recall decades ago some fairly high-up federal official publicly committing to feeding his family for a month or more on government rations for poor people - food stamps, welfare or the like - just to prove that it was perfectly adequate. I don't happen to recall how well that worked out. Anyone else..?
P.S. - I neglected to mention that liberals - or rather what pass for liberals these days - are always very worried about refugees in distant lands; they seem never to have noticed the massive homeless population in the USA. Also, they appear unaware that Syrians are dependent on handouts because we've been bombing the crap out of their country.
ReplyDelete"We come upon a contention which is so astonishing that we must dwell upon it. This contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions. I call this contention astonishing because, in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering, are part of that very civilization."
ReplyDelete-Sigmund Freud "Civilization and Its Discontents"
"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it." -Herbert Marcuse
ReplyDeleteCarve this one into your wall!
ReplyDelete“Whatever the state says is a lie; whatever it has is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.”
—Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Pt. I, “On the New Idol”
"It's always been assumed that the evolutionary slope reaches forever upwards, but in fact the peak has already been reached, the pathway now leads downwards to the common biological grave. It's a despairing and at present unacceptable vision of the future, but it's the only one." -J. G. Ballard, "The Voices of Time", 1960
ReplyDeleteHonestly today I'd settle for a hot meal.
ReplyDeleteYeah my digs are tidy, and cute. Mostly empty because I sold most of what I used to own for the needs of life.
ReplyDeleteStill this is mere 2nd World want.
I see others outside my home well deep in 3rd World destitution,...I see the oblivious very well off on the same street. Democracy.
This is the strangeness of it.
Anyone coming my home might say oh how cute,...they do too. The Emergency medical folks always comment when they're scrapping me off the floor to take to the ER. That, and the Social Workers the City sends to make sure I'm still alive. They comment as well.
One said most my age are like them folks on the show "Hoarders".
They have houses or apartment full of 50 years of crap they never threw out,...and she said they tended to be disturbed.
What can I say.
Clean living being a Queer Pacifist artist, and Science Fiction fan seems to have made all the difference.
However anyone seeing my digs would be surprised that I go hungry for part of the month.
The choice amongst meds rent, and food. I juggle these. Lately food has to sit it out because my meds which keep me alive are more important...also behind in the rent.
I have found this is not at all unusual.
When I go to social services for crumbs I see the whole cross section of the city. All colors, and outwardly all classes. Lately middle class folks are here in force. Dressed nice with devices just regular folks,...who are going hungry or about to lose their homes.
Democracy at work.
I'll hang on for as long as I can.
I see exactly the same thing you describe myself on a day to day basis, Sidney, and it gets worse with each day that passes. John Adams saw it coming right from the beginning.
ReplyDelete"Democracy … soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America
Adams was a complicated guy.
ReplyDeleteRead his letters, and saved articles. He was certainly on da money about democracies. Granted as they say most everything else is worse.
Democratic Socialism is a nice though short lived fix.
As we see these are starting to go belly up too.
Maybe a decentralized Anarchist Communalist free association?
Even these are dangerous.
After a while exactly because they are so loose,...dominate personalities show up. ...and Dominate.
Then it becomes the same old thing,...full prisons. ...Wars too.
Perhaps the only functional human culture were the Hunter Gatherers. Sure you only live to 22 if you're lucky.
Everything is trying to eat you, and the other tribes will when they catch you wear your ears, and balls as decorations. A short brutish existence, but it worked for near a million years.