Wallace Shawn In His Own Words

[New Tet]

Sorry if this is a repost.

http://www.haymarketbooks.org/product_info.php?products_id=2094

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZXgiARwr0

[Muzk]

'We can't uh.. uh.. if we're seriously concerned about opressing other people... we'd probably have to give up on our privileges.'

'How can a well-off person justifiy the fact that his comfortable life is made possible by the suffering of most of the earths population'

'When I got into my forties... somehow I was able to see that I was the beneficiary of a status quo, and the system that, uh, employed violence and torture to keep the poor of the world in line, that I was... never really involved but.. the very things that were fun in my life were... often... privileges that had been won at the cost of other peoples lives. So, you know, I have changed.'

The best parts. This guy sounds just like me - he woke up out of a dream and realized the REALITY around him. I too had, at some point, seen everything the materialistic way - kind of like... an illusion you're stuck inside.
And that's probably how most of the people wake up