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KippMuellerFirstPaper 8 - 18 Jun 2012 - Main.KippMueller
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John Brown 2012 | | | Then I head to law school, where I spend enough money to feed villages, print enough paper to kill forests and dedicate endless hours to transcendental nonsense instead of building things and reaching out to those in need. I look at something seemingly trivial, like my lunch meat. I realize I just made a donation to Monsanto, a company that injects artificial hormones into our food, treats both human workers and animals in extremely inhumane ways, bullies small farmers to crush competition and poisons our environment with toxic chemicals. | |
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< | Sometimes, in fact often, I don't realize it at all. And if I am thinking about it, I am too often consciously indifferent to it. Most of the time I think about it, recognize my indifference to it, and become saddened by it. Oftentimes, we talk about our "footprint". Our footprint goes well beyond a car we drive or a political donation we make. It's the day to day to day. | >
> | Sometimes, in fact often, I don't realize it at all. And if I am thinking about it, I am too often indifferent to it. Most of the time I think about it, recognize my indifference to it, and become saddened by my indifference.
Oftentimes, we talk about our "footprint". Our footprint goes well beyond a car we drive or a political donation we make. It's the day to day to day. | | | As for our "convictions": What about them? The guy walking down the street has a Che Guevara shirt. He got a great deal on it, because it was made in Vietnam. I'm not sure if he sees the irony, but I do. I talk about what I believe around school. To what end? | |
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< | There's my convictions, and then there's my life. And I don't know to reconcile the two, but I'd like to find a career where I can answer that question. Recently, I found myself wondering what John Brown would do. | >
> | There's my convictions, and then there's my life. I feel like the guy in the "Made in Vietnam" Che Guevara shirt. And I don't know to reconcile my convictions with my life, but I'd like to find a career where I can answer that question. Recently, I found myself wondering what John Brown would do. | | | Who Would John Brown Be Today? | | | Ultimately, I'm wondering whether John Brown could live in America today at all. | |
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< | He could subsist on food made locally and clothes sewn in America, but what about his tax payments which fund private militias in the Middle East which have slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians? What about the ground John walks on, stolen first during the genocide of Native Americans and second from the poor via eminent domain? | >
> | He could subsist on food made locally and clothes sewn in America, but what about his tax payments which fund private militias in the Middle East that have slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians? | | | He needs a computer to hash out his plans, but the titanium in the computer was purchased from warlords and malevolent mining corporations in Africa. He sits at a desk made of wood from the Amazon, cut by timber companies that are displacing thousands of villages in Latin America and causing the extinction of millions of species. |
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