Profound statement
May. 13th, 2004 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helionaI got this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nimoloth, and thought it was quite thought-provoking. It is a transcription of one of Garrison Keillor's monologues, 'News From Lake Wobegon' on his radio show 'A Prairie Home Companion' (Minnesota Public Radio). It was written and broadcast in the early 1990's.
"America is a country that God has blessed so much, we have not suffered as other people have. We don't know what suffering is like.
We have not known war in our country since 1865 - that experience of war in 1865 was so horrible, in this country, the civil war, that we did not lift our hand against anybody for years and years after that. But over the years, we've become so prosperous, and we have developed technology that allows us to deliver war to other people and it never falls on us.
We have no idea what war is like in this country. Our soldiers know, but when they come back to tell us we don't know what they're talking about. We don't know what war is like in this country, and so it behooves us to be careful. And to rain down death on people... and then to gloat over it, is not becoming, in God's eyes. It is not good - to rain down destruction, from this country which knows so little suffering that our own... navels become the source of our suffering, is not pleasant and good in God's eyes. We should be very careful ... very careful."
nimoloth, and thought it was quite thought-provoking. It is a transcription of one of Garrison Keillor's monologues, 'News From Lake Wobegon' on his radio show 'A Prairie Home Companion' (Minnesota Public Radio). It was written and broadcast in the early 1990's. "America is a country that God has blessed so much, we have not suffered as other people have. We don't know what suffering is like.
We have not known war in our country since 1865 - that experience of war in 1865 was so horrible, in this country, the civil war, that we did not lift our hand against anybody for years and years after that. But over the years, we've become so prosperous, and we have developed technology that allows us to deliver war to other people and it never falls on us.
We have no idea what war is like in this country. Our soldiers know, but when they come back to tell us we don't know what they're talking about. We don't know what war is like in this country, and so it behooves us to be careful. And to rain down death on people... and then to gloat over it, is not becoming, in God's eyes. It is not good - to rain down destruction, from this country which knows so little suffering that our own... navels become the source of our suffering, is not pleasant and good in God's eyes. We should be very careful ... very careful."
