Neil Oliver’s Christmas monologue is inspiring to any of us who struggle with the decline of the West. Here’s his closing:
. . . Just because the help and
leadership we need is not yet clearly in view … the seeds of it are there among
us already, nonetheless. We must come to our own rescue in the year and years
ahead because there’s no one else.
The Christmas story tells us that
2000 and more years ago, a baby boy was born into poverty and into obscurity.
During the 33 years of the life of the man he became, he was recognized for
what he really was, his true value, by relatively few. He died as he had lived,
in obscurity. He was executed for standing up to, and challenging, the
establishment, but by his actions the world was changed forever, for the
better.
Sometimes the most obvious people
change the world. At other times, it’s the people the world does not notice,
that the world thinks nothing of and so ignores, who end up making all the
difference.
I hope and also trust that this is
one of those times. I have no faith in the obvious, loud people with their
hands on the levers of power. We will be saved by our own actions in defiance
of those who care for us not a jot and who prioritize only those they serve –
which is to say the already rich and the already powerful, the banks, the
markets and the global corporations. I say we should ignore the whole lot of
them.
Here’s the thing: together, right
now, we already have everything we will ever need, which is to say each other.
We can share food and warmth and light.
We are free people. It’s Christmas
and the Christmas message is that hope is here. Light in the dark.
Merry Christmas. Read the full transcript or watch the video here.
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