Not Your Everyday House
Last day of building here in Casablanca, and I have the old song about 'There's a pink one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one, and they're all built of ticky-tacky and they're all just the same' running through my mind. It's about the contrast of the materialism that typified our culture at the time and the kind of spirit that is going into the building here, I suppose, that started me off on that one.
Anyone want to try building a little house? I honestly think I could manage it, after the last two weeks of work. Okay, I grow things and make gardens, but this is something all of us can do with enough determination, some basic tools, and bodies enough to do the work.
The Housing for Humanity project sadly reminds me of the genius of Jimmy Carter, beginning to conserve energy and spread good will to the rest of the planet. As Professor Wombat have remarked several times, we wouldn't be in the position of dependency and combat in the Middle East that we find ourselves in if only that foresight had been left along by succeeding cynical administrations with interests in growing petroleum fuel industry. Enlisting well-inclined everyday citizens like me and the Kid for homeraising like our old frontiers gives a start to fellow humans, without all the onus or the 'moral hazards ' of that credit that the right wing has promoted to our great losses.
Home ownership is a precious goal, but the way it has been promoted to create wealth for the lender instead of honoring the individual has brought about what may be the greatest financial fiasco of all times. Selling shaky credit as a part of the process of home buying that made sense, the occupied White House has pimped a twisted concept that would give even cleanliness and order a bad name. Imagine if the directions from high positions had been genteel and public spirited in character, like the Carter administration. We could have been heading toward a world of prosperity, instead of the low places we've reached. The Bacchanlia is ending like most debauches, with destruction the result and losses that a lot of struggle will be needed to regain.
The resources squandered in the past 8 years quite probably would have been able to end world hunger. We certainly could have diminished, rather than increased, poverty and homelessness.
Working on the slow building process feels good, and contributes what we can, for those of us on this build. It is daily a reminder of the price of right wing recklessness, that takes away rather than gives. Needless to say, almost the entire crew here is eagerly looking forward to the election. We'll be going back next week to start working on an end to a regime of destruction.
Respect for the human race is a goal that seems a long way off, but we've had a participation in this project that reminds us that good leadership matters. We can start building again toward what the U.S. should be, and ought to be.
There's a pink one, and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one. In a very good way.
Anyone want to try building a little house? I honestly think I could manage it, after the last two weeks of work. Okay, I grow things and make gardens, but this is something all of us can do with enough determination, some basic tools, and bodies enough to do the work.
The Housing for Humanity project sadly reminds me of the genius of Jimmy Carter, beginning to conserve energy and spread good will to the rest of the planet. As Professor Wombat have remarked several times, we wouldn't be in the position of dependency and combat in the Middle East that we find ourselves in if only that foresight had been left along by succeeding cynical administrations with interests in growing petroleum fuel industry. Enlisting well-inclined everyday citizens like me and the Kid for homeraising like our old frontiers gives a start to fellow humans, without all the onus or the 'moral hazards ' of that credit that the right wing has promoted to our great losses.
Home ownership is a precious goal, but the way it has been promoted to create wealth for the lender instead of honoring the individual has brought about what may be the greatest financial fiasco of all times. Selling shaky credit as a part of the process of home buying that made sense, the occupied White House has pimped a twisted concept that would give even cleanliness and order a bad name. Imagine if the directions from high positions had been genteel and public spirited in character, like the Carter administration. We could have been heading toward a world of prosperity, instead of the low places we've reached. The Bacchanlia is ending like most debauches, with destruction the result and losses that a lot of struggle will be needed to regain.
The resources squandered in the past 8 years quite probably would have been able to end world hunger. We certainly could have diminished, rather than increased, poverty and homelessness.
Working on the slow building process feels good, and contributes what we can, for those of us on this build. It is daily a reminder of the price of right wing recklessness, that takes away rather than gives. Needless to say, almost the entire crew here is eagerly looking forward to the election. We'll be going back next week to start working on an end to a regime of destruction.
Respect for the human race is a goal that seems a long way off, but we've had a participation in this project that reminds us that good leadership matters. We can start building again toward what the U.S. should be, and ought to be.
There's a pink one, and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one. In a very good way.
Labels: Corruption, Credit Crunch, Economy, Energy, Enlightenment, Globalization
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