Lost in Translation and thoughts including 'Communalism'

 Captured Kerry's poem, from 'A Call to Home'...

 

and some interesting thoughts from emails:

1] Capitalism has been the engine of the exploitation of nature, and thus the generator of the climate crisis. We need to cooperate with nature, and cease seeing it only as a commodity. Nature is sacred, according to indigenous peoples. All of nature has a spiritual significance, not just a material importance. The article below by Erin McCarley delves the way in which capitalism is killing our planet. It is a call for Americans – and everyone else in thrall to them – to wake up.

 

[2] Capitalism kills off the human sense of solidarity, communing and community, togetherness, and divides people in such a way that all sense of the common good, the common interest, the common destiny, uniting all humans is rejected. Redemption is humanity’s  common destiny, and it allows no ‘winners and losers’, no ‘saved and lost.’ Capitalism creates the vast gulf between rich and poor. Something like the 10% of the richest people in the world own 90% of the world’s wealth. 100 oranges and 100 people. 10 people ‘own’ [have stolen] 90 oranges, so that is 9 oranges per person. 90 people are left with 10 oranges, which is 0.1 orange per person, an amount so small, it hardly registers. Could you sit at table with 9 oranges in front of you, to eat at your leisure, while your neighbour next to you was sitting with 0.1 per cent of an orange in front of him? Any gap is wrong, yet this kind of gap routine to capitalism is obscene.

A third way Communalism... Jamie Moran

from an email by Jamie Moran,  retired senior lecturer in psychology and counselling at Roehampton University.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wound-Existence-Jamie-Moran-ebook/dp/B00HEPAG44

and

https://www.passionofheart.co.uk/about/

We must build massive networks of support and care at local and community levels, while at the same time, build international political movements that can replace the most corrupt capitalist states. It’s a long, hard road ahead and a multi-generational project, and it’s not for the weak of heart. It’s going to take all of our courage, all of our resilience, and all of our love for our children and grandchildren. And it starts with telling the truth about capitalism.

 

from It’s a Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis by Erin McCarley, an independent photojournalist, filmmaker and writer based in Denver, Colorado.

I've written before that Shallal holds a vision for how we can all live together which can point  beyond art, (and the above quotes are others perspectives and thoughts), we all have different ways of getting to the same place, of 'celebrating diversity, ability and community'. 

At it's best we feel the 'Communalism' of our work together and we care for people who are vulnerable and realise we are all vulnerable and need love, care, respect and consideration and the planet and our fragile ecosystems are part of it and need it to now more than ever. 

Personally, I am committed to bringing positive voices, to help us in our global crisis, into all our projects and Kerry's poem and plea, is one I'm happy to have out there.

I'm also pleased to be starting a Citizens Journalism course soon at Penryn Campus. - Jo Willis founder and creative director Shallal