Let's not be distracted

Someone wrote, "...Everyone wants everything, and no one wants to pay anything to have it." 

You know, I'm just not seeing this.  For example, most of the Blind folks we work with want to pay for the aids and appliances that we insist are being provided at no cost to them.  Over and over again we hear folks say, "Oh, I don't need that.  somebody is probably worse off than I am." 

When we tell folks that there is no charge for our services they want to know where they can send a contribution. 

Of course this is the older Blind population, but I think it's pretty much true with all decent people.  Cathy and I live in an area where our neighbors give and share among one another.  The same was true when we lived in the crowded city. 

Sure, we all run into the greedy, grubby grabbers, and they sometimes seem to overshadow the larger majority of good, decent folk, but I think that we get distracted with these kinds of stories.  Sure, I have known a few hoarders in my time.  But what they did was peanuts compared to what the Corporate Empire Builders are doing on a daily basis.  If you are going to put out energy getting mad, then let's get mad at the people who tell us we need to suck it up and sacrifice, while they come and go as if nothing has changed.  Let's get worked up over the Corporation that takes resources from the land and leaves nothing but devastation behind.  But rather than admitting their destruction, they underwrite articles that point the finger at old aunt Nell for hording toilet paper.  Well, what a deal!  A basement of toilet tissues compared to polluted rivers, clear-cut forests and starving little children. 

 

Curious Carl