[ssf] [sheffield-anti-war-coalition] I loved the words you wrote to me, but .... WAS Re: [g8-sheffield] Billy Bragg and patriotism

[adam bashid]

josh wrote:

> billy bragg is a media darling the bard of barking is a class 
> traitor if you go by what he was saying 20 years ago.

it doesn't make much odds what ''class'' he, or we think we are in, or 
for that matter, any other label he or we choose to stick to ourselves 
whether its ''nation'', ''race'', ''religion'', or 
''inside-leg-measurement'' ...

the thing is, none of the these labels come with a free space-rocket, or 
a 9" think lead jacket, so we're in all in the same boat really ...

i mean, have you seen this:

     Depleted Uranium, Diabetes, Cancer And You
     http://tinyurl.com/yqodsk

--
"For now human beings, engaged, as always, in the ambitions and disputes 
of their particular place and time, can end the human story in all 
places and time. The eternal has been placed at stake in the temporal 
realm, and the infinite has been delivered into the care of finite human 
beings" -- The Abolition : Jonathan Schell

"And it makes imaginative sense, I think, that the enchanting mysteries 
of matter, of quanta, should encode an ending ( the atom itself being no 
more than a set of relationships ).

  Mathematically the universe is a fluke. So is the earth, this blue 
planet, and so is organic life. Though each confirmation is welcome, we 
do not need the econuts of Greenpeace or *The Tao of Physics* to tell 
that in our biosphere everything is to do with everything else.

  In that they are human, all human beings feel it -- the balance, the 
delicacy. We have only one planet, and it is *round*." -- Thinkability : 
Martin Amis