peaceful buddha 静かな大仏 (kanaya, chiba)

Posted by timothy sullivan (Tokyo, Japan) on 12 September 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture.

the largest buddha in Japan, at nihonji temple (日本時) in chiba. (i saw this kid looking up and up and up in awe of the buddha and thought: my, what a marvelous photo opportunity!)

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David Barsamian: "Often at the talks you give, there is a question that's always asked, and that is, 'What should I do?' This is what you hear in American audiences."

Noam Chomsky: "You're right, it's American audiences. You never hear it in the Third World."

DB: "Why not?"

NC: "Because when you go to Turkey or Colombia or Brazil or somewhere else, they don't ask you, 'What should I do?' They tell you what they're doing. It's only in highly privileged cultures that people ask, 'What should I do?' We have every option open to us. None of the problems that are faced by intellectuals in Turkey or campesinos in Brazil or anything like that. We can do anything. But what people here are trained to believe is, we have to have something we can do that will be easy, that will work very fast, and then we can go back to our ordinary lives. And it doesn't work that way.

"You want to do something, you're going to have to be dedicated, committed, at it day after day. You know exactly what it is: it's educational programs, it's organizing, it's activism. That's the way things change. You want something that's going to be a magic key that will enable you to go back to watching television tomorrow? It's not there."

(Chomsky, "Collateral Damage, an Interview with David Barsamian", Z Magazine, July/August, 2003)

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