Christmas should be a time for the poor, for restructuring the economy so it does not only benefit a few and so public necessities like education, health care and housing are rights and not privileges.
We are living in a dark age when profiteers and financiers deny their responsibility for the financial-economic meltdown, where the financial sector and speculation are encouraged and not shriveled, where disillusionment and cynicism spread, where CEOs are called job creators and workers cost factors and where education and the Enlightenment are often mocked instead of reinvigorated.
The future would be brighter if we could join in anti-fascist coalitions and in pleading for a future-friendly alternative economy with reduced working hours, environmental caring and infrastructure investment. The future would be brighter if believers joined with others in naming and combating the structural causes of exploding inequality and the atrophied public spirit.
to read the translated meditations by Heinz Zahrnt and Walter Dietz, click on
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