If you look out of the window as a human being, at nature, all of nature is unconditionally and absolutely beautiful. Whatever it is. Whether it’s a jungle, a desert, the arctic waste, or your own backyard, the only ugly things you will ever see are things made by man. And if, from your earliest age looking at the world you see yourself as a member of a species that can only uglify and spoil the world, it gives what psychiatrists would call a deep sense of guilt. And guilt, as anyone knows, is the major cause of aggression. That’s why you get violent. Because you’re guilty. You feel worthless. And you feel worthless if you don’t believe you’re part of a species that is actually capable of creating beauty. Which we are. In terms of architecture, music, painting, and all kinds of things, beauty is possible. And is good.
We have a new video up for The Province’s Inside the 18!
Thanks to edit+upload troubles, this one’s pretty late in the game. But it’s still entertaining enough to watch, especially if you’re into FIFA at all!
Tony Benn accuses the BBC ON AIR of capitulating to the Israeli Government by refusing to air an appeal for the Gazan people by the Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC) he then broadcasts the Address himself much to the consternation of the interviewer!
Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC)
Gaza Crisis
PO BOX 999
LONDON
EC3A 3AA
Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza humanitarian appeal:
Launched by UK charities on 22 January to raise money for Gaza aid relief and reconstruction
Participants: Action Aid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision
Information on 0370 60 60 900 or at the DEC website
