Lessons from the Ignorant Rabble

For someone who has only ever eaten green plums it is understandable that they believe that plums can only be sour and it is impossible for them to imagine the sweet taste of a ripe plum. 
 
But the world is not simply a place in which natural processes produce change and new states beyond the capacity of ordinary minds to imagine; it\'s full of deceptions. 
 
In medieval times people believed that tomatoes were poisonous. They ate from pewter plates. Acid of the tomatoes dissolved the lead and carried it into the bloodstream. In fact, it was not the tomatoes that were poisonous but the lead from the pewter plates. Although the general perception was correct; something was poisonous, just not the tomatoes. 
 
And so it is with government. What the world currently experiences is a sour plum; a puppet-show of democracy in which economic power behind the curtain pulls the strings and the cattle are herded about in the interests of a privileged few who would have us persuaded that the best of all possible worlds will arise from the synergistic effects of individual self-interest, a belief that entails rejection of the power of human reason and all that it has achieved. 
 
This sour plum has persuaded many a blind fool that it is government that is corrupt, incompetent and coercive, not the pewter plate on which it is served up to the masses. 
 
Edward Kennedy was a man who had the vision to imagine what the natural processes of the world can do with a green plum and a steadfast commitment to that vision. 
He also had the wisdom and the knowledge (perhaps because he came from a family who had access to wealth and privilege along with the mental capacity for something more than perverse self-indulgence of it) to see the true poison that afflicts mankind. 
 
Kennedy had faith in human reason to penetrate the mask of ignorance, to identify the true source of the poison and to share the vision of a world that is a sweet plum ripened by the natural outcome of human reason. 
 
Up to my neck in the babble of \"free market forces\" and \"small government\" from the ignorant rabble in the standing area who would purport to give lessons to the likes of Ted Kennedy, I an heart and soul with Kennedy, with his brothers, with human reason and a decent, just, humane world built on respect for life and human dignity.

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Lessons from the Ignorant Rabble

Wow. Sheldon Richman believes the "government is evil" meme. Apparently he doesn't feel that he's "serving" corporations, or if he does that is perfectly acceptable. 
We have a lot of work to do, a lot of educating . .

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