why shake the chains ye wrought...

Watched a wonderful documentary tonight, called 'God Grew Tired of Us'. I don't think have seen a film that really captured the realities of displacement into a culture different than one's own like this one. The filmmakers did a beautiful job of turning that cultural foreignness into the American culture. You get to walk with these kids from their homes in Sudan, through lushness, war, the community of the camps, and then into Pittsburgh and Syracuse as an African.

And then there was tea in Montecito with Adam Smith. Started 'Wealth of Nations' today for the first time, a brilliant ride into the heart of capitalism. From the first sentence it was interesting... straightforward... all business. What I particularly noticed were the presupposed elements with which Smith works. The first sentence bears the nation-state and time.

I guess it deserves more thought and more spinning out, but there is something in the intersection between the raw realities of work, the land, meeting our physical needs and desires, and the realities of community and alienation in the aftermath of war that the Lost Boys of Sudan faced in their journey from the Nile to the Allegheny.