On Buying And Selling
For some reason 9/11 has been a recurring theme in my life the last few days. I’m not quite sure why seeing as it’s January and it doesn’t usually cross my mind unless it is, in fact, September 11th or I happen to find myself walking by “Ground Zero.” Attending college a few blocks from the site has led me to some very strong opinions about the whole situation, leading me to deem this as very inappropriate. Way to make money on a horrific event.
Regardless, that is not the point of this post. This morning on the train to work I was reading The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Now I am not a poetry person. In fact, I usually avoid it like the plague. I feel the same way about poetry as I do Julius Caesar or Lord of the Flies. That is, necessary evils fed to us by our educators in order to make us well-read and well-rounded citizens of society. Right. However, his collection of poems in this book is so comprehensible and eloquently worded that I have no choice but to love it.
This passage clarifies quite precisely exactly why our world is in it’s current state:
“To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.”
It may seem too simple, but who says things have to be complicated? I’ll tell you who. The people making money by giving tours of the World Trade Center site.
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However, I would like to clarify that I am not promoting any kind of political agenda. I'm not left wing or right wing or any wing. And I'm leaving it at that.
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Are you playing jeopardy here? I'm confused.
According to Wikipedia, he is
1. A character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged
2. A Scottish novelist and colonial administrator
3. A writer of the film Undiscovered.
4. A New York company involved with demolishing the former Deutsche Bank Building.
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