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Sherman A1 (13,883 posts) The Modern Violence of Over-work Thomas Merton — Trappist monk, gifted writer, social critic, and spiritual virtuoso — has inspired many people. I'm one of them. Merton wrote these incisive words more than fifty years ago, but they are no less true today than when he wrote them. "There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-modern-violence-of-over-work/6943
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025668024No. You lazy ****tards.Violence is violence.Yet, none of you pussies seem to shed a moment's concern for those who have to work harder to support your worthless asses and you're prepared to use the violence of government power to get your way.Die cold and hungry in a ditch you sub-human pieces of shit.
"There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
