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You’re fooling yourself.  We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is…”That didn’t have much to do with what I’m wanting to write, but I figure a little Monty Python integration into everyday speech/thoughts couldn’t do me any harm.I’ve been thinking about the importance of hope and how easy it is to give up on inspiring ideas through self-defeation.  Which is not a word. Or phrase.My Money Sex and Power professor perpetually harps on this point as if he knows I have a blog in dire need of opinions beyond my own.  Of course, I’ve now adopted his take on the subject, so this will another of my ramblings.  But it has an inspired source.In class, he discussed our responsibility to help the poor.  He said he made it his policy several years ago to give to everyone who asked him.  Any bum who hits him up will receive whatever change he has on him at that moment.Convicted middle-class students defensively asked him about the possible conclusion of this policy; what if–heaven forbid – he ended up giving all of his money away. Surely that wasn’t a beneficial outcome? To this he responded that he wasn’t even close to having that problem, and he has actually been surprised at how rarely he is asked for money.  Furthermore, he added, Why should people be so scared of giving all their money away?  Or donating their clothes until they’re naked? Or loving too many people that you’re spread thin? Or going to the extreme of anything “good”?The fact is, none of us are even close to hitting these extremes, and letting the fear of ‘giving too much money away’ stop us from any form of generosity is absurd when we realize how far away we are from these possibilities.  He told us that he doubted it would hurt us to  just  start down that path and see where it takes us.I’m getting quite adept at not following through my thoughts on here.________________________________I want to buy a globe. My hope is to one day be open enough to close my eyes, spin the globe, and go to exactly where my finger lands. I’m actually pretty close to doing that already…

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