There is a very interesting article this blogger happen to read this morning in New York Times by the prolific Canadian writer and poet Margaret Atwood. It is an interesting take on Financial crisis (incidentally this blogger was never bothered about any of these ups and downs of stock exchange and depressions in economy. I rather find it very amusing particularly the way people panic. Quite amazing Homo Sapiens !!!)Bloggers are suggested to visit http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22atwood.html?_r=1&oref=slogin or can go to New York Times website at http://www.nytimes.com/ (and please for godsake don’t start reading articles titled “Could Obesity in pregnant woman influence her child’s political outlook?”!!!!!!!!!!!. It is no joke. Americans are strange people sometimes really scary. Wallowing in absurdity can be an affliction that goes well with greed and irresponsible behavior).
Atwood em
phasis on “there is such a thing as the common good”. She writes "Debt — who owes what to whom, or to what, and how that debt gets paid — is a subject much larger than money. It has to do with our basic sense of fairness, a sense that is embedded in all of our exchanges with our fellow human beings". The article end with these lines: “Is there any bright side to this? Perhaps we’ll have some breathing room — a chance to re-evaluate our goals and to take stock of our relationship to the living planet from which we derive all our nourishment, and without which debt finally won’t matter.”
There is also a poem by Atwood I read in the Net titled “More and More”, part of which I copy here:
…This kind of hunger draws
everything into its own
space; nor can we
talk it all over, have a calm
rational discussion.
There is no reason for this, only
a starved dog's logic about bones.
