Monday, October 27, 2008

Declaration of Slavery:

I am Italian, and I am now living in Australia, so I couldn't bother that much about America, but I do really believe that we are all connected each other with a quite thick rope, and we must use that rope to rescue ourselves and not to hang each other.

We must learn from the people that came before us, as not make the same mistake but instead follow whom inspired us with great example and fearless.

Here is a link to a BeppeGrillo's blog page reading which I learn something about one of the greatest American men in recent history, that man is again Robert Kennedy, and this post is about that speach he delivered at the Kansas university:

It's so important to understand that this man had been killed because he was standing for his idea of equality and because he tried to be fair in a world that doesn't like the outside player like him.



"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children."

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."


In short my thought it's all about the acknowledgment of the fact that we live most of our lives to follow a dream that somebody else told us to dream, fearing what we are told to fear, and forgetting what is really important for us, i.e. that if we skim all the futile things, we would easily find out that there are plenty of better ones to live for, so don't wait it's too late do what you like but do it now! And let's try do it together!

Otherwise will be son too late!

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