Sharon Astyk raises an interesting question: if times got really hard, and persecutions began, whom would you risk arrest to hide in your home? Who could you count on to hide you? Sharon:
This, of course, is a very high standard of relationships - and yet, it is also, I think, a useful way of thinking about the depths of our relationships. Ask yourself who you would risk your life for, who you would take in in very difficult times, who you would speak up for, who you would make sacrifices for. Odds are good that some of those people are the ones who would do it for you. The stakes of community really are not that low, and community should never be last on our planning list.
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" 'when the Dominionist whackos start rounding up the left-handed, gay, vehemently-ex-Catholic mathematicians.'
If that happens, my family is fleeing for Quebec."
You`re welcome here, as long as you don't mind your kids going to French school, without a choice, where they are instructed in English as much as 01 (one) hour per week. And where the population at large is allergic to religion in general.
Now that`s tolerance for you.
An interesting thought experiment perhaps.
On the other hand, we shouldn't forget that the number of people who actually hid Jews was pretty damned small.
And many of those were motivated by money as much as by humanity.
I know the stories, Corrie ten Bloom etc, we should remember that most of us would would be hid by nobody.
If I may, ExLibris may have been answering the question, "who would hide you?" The list (of people who would hide you) would probably not include Jews because 60 years ago we as a nation didn't do such a hot job of rescuing/hiding them.
ExLibris, feel free to clarify.
Given my eschatology, most everyone who would hide me in time of need will themselves need a hiding place.
Only 13 comments. Here's my angle. You really can't hide, and there is no need to persecute physically. The newest for of oppression is forced participation. If you don't participate you will be marginalized. It's the most efficient form of oppression. I am sure there will be a need to quietly eliminate people, but forced participation and marginalization is the best tactic. All the computers make it possible to micromanage people who want to play ball, and micro marginalize those who don't.
Want an organic farm? Sure, great idea, but you have to microchip your animals, if not you can't sell your products. If you can't pay or won't take out a loan then you cannot play. That is just one tiny example.
It's always been that way, it's always been hard to totally eliminate black and grey markets. See no fear, just long boring pre-defined boring life as one of the goats in the goat heard.
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