This is an awkward thing to post

[Kid Berwyn]

22. We used to value every human life.

For a while, that meant everyone. I remember being brought up to respect others, no matter race, creed, or socioeconomic status.

Pablo Casals, the cellist whom JFK invited to perform at the White House, was pretty spot on what we need to do.

Pablo Casals: “In the confusion that afflicts the world today, I see a disrespect for the very values of life. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! They look at the wonder of this earth — and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going…

“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you. And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.”

Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/10/pablo-casals-joys-and-sorrows-jfk/

Unfortunately, that story of loving one another and appreciating one another and a New Frontier was replaced by the twin mottos of a fascist Dixie cabal: might makes right and white is right. Thus today the great many fall victim to the very few with power and means to effect change. They like being boss and don’t care who they have to get out of their way to this day.

Wall Street, Washington and the GOP state capitals help keep a boot on the neck of the future generations by making them feel life is hopeless weakens their ability to see their options for choosing a better future. Rupert Murdoch and his Turd Reich News help keep the People in the dark and in despair also helps limit their ability to resist.