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I find most mornings that it’s necessary to refresh whatever passes for my soul with thoughts about justice and human rights. I wish I could de-commercialize the giddy, collective buying and selling of dignity. I wish this while walking my dog. I recognize my essential simplicity.
Lately I’ve seen aggressive commercials on MSNBC advertising “clean coal”. But what about the collapse of mine safety standards in West Virginia? I recognize my essential simplicity.
I must live with my simplicity if I’m to live at all. I must live with the “simplicities”. There are many.
Most of them can be found in the “Sermon on the Mount” though you can find variants and extensions of the simplicities almost anyplace. “Blessed are the cheese makers” and “the love you take is equal to the love you make” are fine examples.
I was in mind of simplicity this morning because, when lived properly, simplicity is the antidote to hypocrisies of all kinds.
Mike Huckabee playing bass behind Ted Nugent is a good example of shameless hypocrisy–Nugent screaming about making people suck on his machine gun, while the Rev. Huckabee is smiling happily. I’m not, apparently simple enough for that.
The simplicities require an admission of discomfort and a willingness to walk away.
S.K.
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