My good friend Kerem woke up a few days ago to a wonderful pouding on the fire escape door made by a representative of the INS. Originally from Turkey- he was going to school, but things fell through, so he has been just lounging around the past few months unable to get a job because he isnt a citizen and basically just keeping me company. I was thinking about all of this today, about driving him down to get his ankle bracelet checked out and about what would happen if he was deported. I was also thinking about my fall and work and the trouble that worker's comp has been giving me- all the representatives who ask me questions that only insinuate that i fell on purpose and that i'm faking an injury. And I wondered- why would anyone want to stay in a coutry like this? A country run by big corporations and managers whose job it is to look after their employees, but all they really do is get every penny they can for the corporation. Why would you want to stay here knowing that the government seems to do everything they can to make sure the middle class workers dont get too much money, but assure the rich folks big tax cuts?
I understand that life here is paradise compared to life in some other countries, but it seems like there is a different kind of suffering here, a mental manipulation of truth. (how can people be so cruel and say such horrible things when they claim their job is to "take care of me"?) and i wonder does this happen all over the world or is it just america's obsession with money and power?
a stupid question i know, because it seems to be the general human mantra "MONEY AND POWER, MONEY AND POWER"
please keep kerem in your thoughts, and hope that this all ends well for him. he is such a good person.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Runaway...
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this is your sister. you will like my show ("anyone can whistle") because its a fable about a town where the government is so corrupt that it fakes a miracle to squeeze money out of the people in the town. the government has also put 49 people in the insane assylum for being "socially pressured" which is to say that they are musicians, authors, social activists, pacifists... anyone who disagreed with the government. these "crazy" people try to get "healed" by the miracle but because it is fake the government denies it to them and because they are denied this they run away- and because they aren't crazy the government can't tell them apart from other citizens to lock them back up... long story short- at the end they say for the head nurse to name names of who gets locked up... and this is the exact list:
Anthony (susan b)
Brecht
Chaplin (charlie)
Dillinger
Engels
Freud
Gandhi
Ibsen
Jorgenson
King (Martin)
Lafitte
Motzart
and to think- a show like this flopped in America...
hm. food for thought.
we are all fighting the good fight- you in your way and I in mine.
;-)
from one hippie to another.
:-*
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