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Originally Posted by Derwood
So we're back to the conservative meme of "the poor deserve to be poor".
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It's more than that; it's also the conservative mantra, "It's not my problem," as though the poor have no direct connection to the rest of society. It's as though being poor is a departure independent of anything else...except "my money."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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