To me, this is where the real revolution lies. Because revolution is a healing process. There’s a wound in the land, in the center of the culture, in all of us, and we need to take a healing road. We need to heal personally, communally, and socially, and to participate in the healing of the land. Revolution should be a kind of rebalancing, not just an attempt to overturn the government and get rid of the people who run it.
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Valuing children sounds so innocent, but if we really put it into practice, it would destroy capitalism. Capitalism cannot withstand that kind of change in values. If you start bringing forward these communal, traditional, cooperative ways of living — which are far older than capitalism — capitalism will begin to wither. Capitalism is based on scarcity, whereas these traditions are based in abundance.
~ Luis Rodriguez, author of, inter alia, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., interviewed by Derrick Jensen in Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture.
