"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist."
-Buckminster Fuller
@bobonbooks the sovereign state would have to end in order to achieve peace, so Mann was correct.
States can have autonomy, with #commonsecurity https://peacemagazine.org
Seems a real option, maybe the only one, towards #truepeace and an end to the domination system.
Ultimately war is no less than state sponsored terrorism. It is the best censorship our so called leaders can impose. National security is another outdated experiment, the results are well documented.
They gathered not to celebrate a battle or to protest an injustice, but to bury the dead. In the waning weeks of the war, 257 Union prisoners had died there—of disease, of neglect, of despair—and been cast into a mass grave behind the grandstand. Now, the people who had once been enslaved came to raise them up.
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Image: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Students Saluting the Flag at the Whittier Primary School, circa 1899-1900.
Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco