edwin zappe

“major tragedy of our times, the citizens of the USA remain relatively passive and indifferent to what is occurring. Yes, it is true we respond to the individual and specific mass tragedies associated with violence, disasters, and related instances of suffering. But as a population — with a few exceptions (e.g., OWM, SOA protests, union protests) — we remain passive to the many injustices and abuses perpetrated by public and private individuals and organizations that serve self-interests at the expense of our nation and the world. Say what you will in argument and contention, but the United States of America is a “Culture of Violence,” and we are exporting that culture in all of its manifestations and forms across the world as we encourage greed, profit, consumerism, materialism, commodification, environmental”
― Anthony J. Marsella, War, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry . . .

“exploitation, demonization of nations and cultures, militarization of societies, abuses of human rights, criminal acts of assassination under the guise of protection, and endemic and epidemic fear.”
― Anthony J. Marsella, War, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry . . .

“The USA way of life — the way we socialize violence in our citizens via larger institutional or structural forces (e.g., entertainment, demonizing populations, denial of opportunities, narrow group privileging, militaristic foreign policies, and invasions of other nations) — encourages violence even as we as a nation ignore, deny, and/or rationalize these events as unimportant or incidental to what is occurring. Individual and collective acts of violence and crime by those in power and position are too often dismissed, tolerated, and/or approved across political, economic, educational, military, and moral”
― Anthony J. Marsella, War, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry . . .

“The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)”
― Anthony J. Marsella, War, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry . . .