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June 5, 2007
Alice Walker, Queen Moonbat
For the kind of fuzzy-warm touchy-feely moonbattery that couldn't care less if you just ate, it would be hard to top Alice Walker. Have a bucket handy; here are some excerpts that summarize her letter to the 2007 graduating class of Boulder's Naropa University.
You are children of this cosmos, this galaxy, of your no doubt innocent Earthling parents who brought you into this existence, and also children of the Buddha, which is to say, Beings who continue to grow into people who treasure wisdom, joyfulness and peace. […]
Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. […]
The freeing of animals, the returning of land and habitat to them, must become part of what it means to be human. […]
This thought: that compassion does not stop at who was right or wrong, does not stop at feeling loving-kindness for the miserable and oppressed, does not stop at feeling the pain of the victim, while ignoring the pain of the victimizer, is a human expression of warmth, a human sunrise, our world desperately needs. This way of seeing the world, and the calamities now afflicting us, can be uniquely carried by meditators and contemplatives such as you. If human beings are not taught to feel compassion for the Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins of the world, if Saddam Hussein is so demonized no one bothers to remember how cruelly he was beaten as a little boy […yada yada yada…] how are we ever to […] do the real work of change survival on our Earth requires?
Ms. Walker also took time to remind us repeatedly of how guilty we should feel about slavery, to announce that Mother Earth "is all there is," and to denounce America as "macho" and "frequently compassionless,"
Upon reading her wise words, I experienced within myself an awakening, a "human sunrise," in Ms. Walker's memorable phrase. A revelation came to me in a moment of idyllic enlightenment, and I saw clearly at last, as clearly as a babe from whose eyes the dark mists of oppression have been blown clear by the gentle breath of the delightful little animals that frolic in Earth's bosom, I saw… that there isn't much use trying to reason with moonbats.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 5, 2007 8:19 AM
Comments
If human beings are not taught to feel compassion for the Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins of the world, if Saddam Hussein is so demonized no one bothers to remember how cruelly he was beaten as a little boy
Oh, gawd.
A. Walker has absolutely no clue about being "human". Those she listed weren't even CLOSE to human. Silly liberals are so confused.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 5, 2007 8:54 AM
Wow, that letter is mind-numbingly twisted... or should I say, so twisted my head is about to explode.
Posted by: MoleOnABull at June 5, 2007 9:26 AM
Come on now, let's be fair. She was at NAROPA! Its not like she was speaking at a real college.
Posted by: phil at June 5, 2007 9:34 AM
"people working to change the intolerable"
HOW?
I don't hear a realistic answer, just more existential utopic nonsense.
Posted by: MDX at June 5, 2007 9:39 AM
So we can interpret this thusly: that Hitler's not being admitted to art school after having had to endure a less-than-ideal relationship with a disciplinarian father is an acceptable excuse for his later actions, and that Saddam's being beaten by his father is understandable reason enough for his torturing and killing anyone who displeased him once he rose to power.
Moonbattery at its finest.
Posted by: Pam at June 5, 2007 10:11 AM
But wait a sec, if America is evil, then she feels compassion for our "victims". But then we're the "victimizer", so is she "ignoring the pain of the victimizer"? But if she's not, then she has compassion for Americans, so we're not the bad guys, but then she says we are "frequently compassionless", but she's an American, so she's "frequently compassionless", but she DOES have compassion, for the victimizers, but she says that's us, so...
POW!!!
[circular left-wing logic causes yet another head to explode]
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at June 5, 2007 11:59 AM
Human sunrises
WTF?
Posted by: Bandit at June 5, 2007 12:06 PM
Please, SOMEBODY! Please help me get out of this bizarro dimention and back to my home world where things (Mostly) make sense! I promass that I'll take you with me!
Posted by: KHarn at June 5, 2007 5:28 PM
Did you see the majors offered at this "university"?
"Contemplative Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Music, Religious Studies, Traditional Eastern Arts, Visual Arts and Writing & Literature, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance."
WTF is "Contemplative Psychology"?
I think this "University" is wasting good oxygen.
Posted by: bp at June 6, 2007 5:00 AM
