Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There Any Limit to Our Capacity for Evil?
There's a poem in here called farm garden, which just struck me. Is it about george washington carver? Yes, no, this isn't from carver. I had been writing a series of poems about radical evil. And i could see that whatever we discover, whatever evil weapon we discover, somebody's going to use it. There is no limit to our capacity for evil. So we are ala allied with whatever god is, yes? And with everything we're part of. We are a part of god. That's isn't that the ecstatic experience? Some people know that just naturally. Other people have to learn it....
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