{"id":508,"date":"2006-05-23T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=502"},"modified":"2006-05-23T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T11:22:04","slug":"51906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"5\/19\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our campaign manager in Georgia, Thomas Farmer, just sent me an insightful essay he wrote about unequal distribution of wealth worldwide. It follows… “Photojournalist Peter Menzel has published something of a sequel to his 1995 acclaimed work Material World<\/em>, which studies families from 30 countries around the world and photographs them with all of their possessions. His new work, Hungry Planet <\/em>(http:\/\/www.menzelphoto.com\/hungryplanet\/<\/a>) is done in collaboration with Faith D’Alusio and focuses on what families aournd the world eat. Similar in style to Material World<\/em>, Menzel photographs families with the food that they typically consume in a week. The photography is stunning and, as you might imagine, the contrasts are stark. A German family of four is shown in front of a lavish spread of food including juice, beer, pizza, fresh meat, and produce with a food expenditure for the week of $500 USD. A Darfur family of six is photographed in a refugee camp with a bottle of water and some sacks of grain. Their expenditure for the week is just over $1 USD. Much like Material World<\/em>, the work is moving in its simplicity. We are given human faces for our largess and the world’s inequities; these images should be fresh in our minds as we consider issues beyond our borders and decide where to expend our resources… We focus on our foreign policy on oil, maintianing our way of life, and preventing another terrorist attack, when several 9\/11’s happen in the Third World every d ay due to starvation. Shouldn’t our political debates be addressing these issues? Shouldn’t our tremendous resources as a nation be focused on this battle?… Our policies and actions should uphold the dignity of life, not blindly preserve our way of life in the name of material progress. While we seek to maximize profits and “progress” in our captitalist society, we are seemingly unsure of the goal of our progressions and what to do with our largess… These works offer us a clear vision of the world and our place in it. Such visions should guide us as we head to the voting booth…” Note:<\/strong> “Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.” –GK Chesterton: Orthodoxy, 1908<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our campaign manager in Georgia, Thomas Farmer, just sent me an insightful essay he wrote about unequal distribution of wealth worldwide. It follows… “Photojournalist Peter Menzel has published something of a sequel to his 1995 acclaimed work Material World, which …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}