{"id":810,"date":"2011-01-18T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:55:09","slug":"summa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Summa"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his post about the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., titled Because We’re All In It Together<\/a>, Jeff Gamso quotes an excerpt from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>, in which Tom Joad is talking with his mother:<\/p>\n

“Tom,” she said.\u00a0 “What you aimin’ to do?”
\nHe was quiet for a long time.\u00a0 “I been thinkin’ how it was in that gov’ment camp, how our folks took care a theirselves, an’ if they was a fight they fixed it thirself; an’ they wasn’t no cops wagglin’ their guns, but they was better order than them cops ever give. I been a-wonderin’ why we can’t do that all over.\u00a0 Throw out the cops that ain’t our people.\u00a0 All work together for our own thing–all farm our own lan’.”
\n“Tom,” Ma repeated, “what you gonna do?”
\n“What Casy done,” he said.
\n“But they killed him.”
\n“Yeah,” said Tom. “He didn’ duck quick enough.\u00a0 He wasn’ doing nothin’ against the law, Ma. I been thinkin’ a hell of a lot, thinkin’ about our people livin’ like pigs, an’ the good rich lan’ layin’ fallow, or maybe one fella with a million acres, while a hunderd thousan’ good farmers is starvin’. An I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together an’ yelled, like them fellas yelled, only a few of ’em at the Hooper ranch —-”
\nMa said, “Tom, they’ll drive you, an’ cut you down like they done to young Floyd.”
\n“They gonna drive me anyways.\u00a0 They drivin’ all our people.”
\n“You don’t aim to kill nobody, Tom?”
\n“No. I been thinkin’, long as I’m a outlaw anyways, maybe I could — Hell, I ain’t thought it out clear, Ma.\u00a0 Don’ worry me now.\u00a0 Don’ worry me.”
\nThey sad silent in the coal-black cave of vines.\u00a0 Ma said, “How’m I gonna know ’bout you? They might kill ya an’ I wouldn’ know.\u00a0 They might hurt ya. How’m I gonna know?”
\nTom laughed uneasily, “Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one — an’ then —-”
\n“Then what, Tom?”
\n“Then it don’ matter.\u00a0 Then I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark.\u00a0 I’ll be ever’where — wherever you look.\u00a0 Wherever they’sa fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.\u00a0 Wherever they’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there.\u00a0 If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there.\u00a0 See? God, I’m talkin’ like Casy.\u00a0 Comes of thinkin’ about thim so much.\u00a0 Seems like I can see him sometimes.”
\n“I don’ un’erstan’.” Ma said.\u00a0 “I don’ really know.”<\/p>\n

“Me neither,” said Tom.\u00a0 “It’s jus’ stuff I been thinkin’ about.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In this short passage is anarchism’s insight that liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order<\/a>, Georgism’s insight that the earth belongs to all of us equally<\/a>, and true religion’s insight that we are the immortal children of an eternal God.<\/div>\n
Enough said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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