There are few contemporary novelists who have explored the dark undercurrents of American society with more insight and pathos than Russell Banks, who died earlier this month.
I write immediately after my experience of appreciating the work of Russel Banks, as you described in points describing Bank's compassionate understanding which serves as a bedrock to civil order, points of knowledge to which you certainly agree.
It is indeed a well suited background in religion and faith to carry as a kit which binds the wounds one suffers in the long walks down to waters of understanding and fields of profound truths, arrived at by paths of individuals seeking knowledge of the everyman within.
Educators as yourself are the invaluable assets to time and humanity.
Russel Banks understood the necessity of compassion within a human soul.
Banks trod his characters on traces through the peaks and valleys of an ever encroaching wilderness of profane greed and hubris, experiencing cruelties wrought of human complacency to a status quo, while a jungle-green of US Dollars obscures witness to the viper pit of injustices at the corporate temples of violent sacrifice.
Educators as yourself bring knowledge of the faint traces in the mountains and valleys of wilderness which other teachers such as Banks have trod, and in your informing others of the slight traces on the land, they may now follow to trod a defined path, then a road to guide humanity back to the necessary understanding and truths by which knowledge and compassion again feed the people by the waters of compassion and in the valleys of truths.
Today's Guardian posts this scientific study which supports Russel Brand's recognition of compassion as a necessity for any salvation of humankind, and it confirms a clear and present danger in the closing of the world's nations and borders as the consequences of an imposed economic and social system of expectations by the few wealthy-powerful descends on our planet as if the pack wolves encircling the timeless village. Only in the compassionate acceptance of the wolf's needs does the village succeed in domesticating the best friend of mankind, the domestic canine.
Understanding our coming reality requires a resurgence of human compassion towards nature so that in time, truths of our survival and necessity will be learned and the wolf be brought into the fold.
I note that the 'common tread' I see in my 'information gleaning' is not actually a thread of common thoughts at all, as much as it is a narrow portal of permitted knowledge, allowed to pass the gauntlet of corporate editorial control, and to enlighten the dimly lit consciousness of a global population imprisoned and blindfolded by monopolized corporate media.
I've read all of his novels, and I was thinking of reading them all again in honor and observation, of his death. Your article, well done and appreciated, as always, has motivated me to do so. My mother gave me continental drift when it was first published. I think I will start there. Thank you.
Helicopter carrying Ukrainian Interior Minister (head of the Azov, which is under the Interior Ministry) & his Deputy, aides, shot down by U.S. Stinger missile over Kiev, crashes & hits busy daycare, killing kids - The Dreizin Report
Standing on "the cusp of nuclear war" we sure do need the compassion for life, to not turn the world into rubble...John Brown was mean SOB, but rightful in looking closely at human evil, he is able to open a path of redemption through reflection. What's really important?
Thank You Chris Hedges for reminding us of an eternal, ongoing fine-line between right, wrong, good and evil. Please keep posting my friend... We need your perspectives from outside the box now more now than ever. There are shadows of Darkness on the horizon.
Thank you, Mr. Hedges. I read the transcript, as well; and enjoyed your interview on Book TV.
I'm truly grateful for all the source material that you kindly cite for us. Ditto Russel Banks...
Happy MLK Day to you and yours...
I write immediately after my experience of appreciating the work of Russel Banks, as you described in points describing Bank's compassionate understanding which serves as a bedrock to civil order, points of knowledge to which you certainly agree.
It is indeed a well suited background in religion and faith to carry as a kit which binds the wounds one suffers in the long walks down to waters of understanding and fields of profound truths, arrived at by paths of individuals seeking knowledge of the everyman within.
Educators as yourself are the invaluable assets to time and humanity.
Russel Banks understood the necessity of compassion within a human soul.
Banks trod his characters on traces through the peaks and valleys of an ever encroaching wilderness of profane greed and hubris, experiencing cruelties wrought of human complacency to a status quo, while a jungle-green of US Dollars obscures witness to the viper pit of injustices at the corporate temples of violent sacrifice.
Educators as yourself bring knowledge of the faint traces in the mountains and valleys of wilderness which other teachers such as Banks have trod, and in your informing others of the slight traces on the land, they may now follow to trod a defined path, then a road to guide humanity back to the necessary understanding and truths by which knowledge and compassion again feed the people by the waters of compassion and in the valleys of truths.
Thank you for your example to humanity.
Today's Guardian posts this scientific study which supports Russel Brand's recognition of compassion as a necessity for any salvation of humankind, and it confirms a clear and present danger in the closing of the world's nations and borders as the consequences of an imposed economic and social system of expectations by the few wealthy-powerful descends on our planet as if the pack wolves encircling the timeless village. Only in the compassionate acceptance of the wolf's needs does the village succeed in domesticating the best friend of mankind, the domestic canine.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/16/altruism-towards-other-species-may-have-helped-humans-thrive-study-finds
Understanding our coming reality requires a resurgence of human compassion towards nature so that in time, truths of our survival and necessity will be learned and the wolf be brought into the fold.
I note that the 'common tread' I see in my 'information gleaning' is not actually a thread of common thoughts at all, as much as it is a narrow portal of permitted knowledge, allowed to pass the gauntlet of corporate editorial control, and to enlighten the dimly lit consciousness of a global population imprisoned and blindfolded by monopolized corporate media.
Help: Which book of Russell Banks should I first read. I prefer non-fiction but will read good fiction books.
I've read all of his novels, and I was thinking of reading them all again in honor and observation, of his death. Your article, well done and appreciated, as always, has motivated me to do so. My mother gave me continental drift when it was first published. I think I will start there. Thank you.
Thank you and -- and Ukraine update:
Helicopter carrying Ukrainian Interior Minister (head of the Azov, which is under the Interior Ministry) & his Deputy, aides, shot down by U.S. Stinger missile over Kiev, crashes & hits busy daycare, killing kids - The Dreizin Report
Standing on "the cusp of nuclear war" we sure do need the compassion for life, to not turn the world into rubble...John Brown was mean SOB, but rightful in looking closely at human evil, he is able to open a path of redemption through reflection. What's really important?
Thank You Chris Hedges for reminding us of an eternal, ongoing fine-line between right, wrong, good and evil. Please keep posting my friend... We need your perspectives from outside the box now more now than ever. There are shadows of Darkness on the horizon.
Beautiful as always. Thank you brother.
Mr Hedges. What’s the solution?