Trying to believe in the world as a great & wholesome place has become tougher and tougher to do these days. I'm not sure if it is because I'm older, or if it my lack frolicking free time.
I have a much sunnier outlook on life than I have for most of the 3 decades I've been on this earth; I can not help but to feel the cycle of the ebb and flow of human exsistance is taking a turn for the worse.
For all that time we were looking into prosperity and a world of grand new experiences, I now see the ill effect of humanity balancing precariously back to a time of sadness and decay. Where literacy was something everyone had, it has become common place to no longer have the ability to read and still go through life without literacy. People spend hours on Twitter reading 140 character blips, but so few will spend that same amount of time reading a great full length work by a great published author. We work too little to pay our bills or so much we don't enjoy the benefits of being employed. We have sex partners and fuck buddies but we distance ourselves from having a lover because they might get them too close to us. People would rather watch the super rich fight with each other through a lens and a copper wire than have their mind expanded by something intellectual.
I realize it is just a down turn and a lull after a long batch of wonderful creativity; advancements in the arts, sciences, and human dignity were everyday and revolutionary new break throughs came to us almost more rapidly than we could grow accustom to. Sadly there were also advances in destruction, torment, harm and war. We learned to turn "crime" into profit and make criminal prosecution lucrative. We took the justice out of the justice system and made it about making money rather than protecting those who need the help of the the state. Now the profiteers hold all the cards.
It took great international and domestic shake ups to create change back when the world saw a total upheaval in its standards and practices in terms of human exsistance. Democracy and sanctions against torture came to be the ruling way of life. It took the bravery of those who were sick of the way things were and knew change had to take place for there to be a better world. They took it upon themselves to bring to light the wrongs and to fight the tyranny when they know the odds were stacked far against them. They took to any means necessary to gain respect as a human race and be known as back bone of the empire they were apart of, and decided to break free from.
But we have to watch out for needless and senseless loss of life in the changing paradigm. We must not see predation and stratification in society as natural and something that can continue at these gross disproportions. Unity and not conformity need to be our motto instead of letting them divide and conquer us.
When we live in a time when we spend more money killing the poor than it would cost to feed them we need to realign our values live in this world of plenty to its fullest. We can not joke about eating the poor when the food supply runs out. We need to see where innovation will be rewarded over mass profit margins. To sustain those that are brought into this world. Where they can have a standard of living this world can sustain for them and t future generations we produce. A disposable society is just that. Expendable and non enduring.
We don't need a larger television when the lands that supply the food to our future generations shows signs of decay. And the ability to create sustainably is only a scientific breakthrough away.
And just like we saw the French of the 1700's killing and filling the streets with blood (only to do it all over again when nothing of real substance changed). A revolution can not be centered in violence, it must be centered in change and progress for the whole of humanity and not a focus on the violent over throw of a political power that only has power when we give it control. We need to have our eyes opened to that fact that war feeds those who are infinitely rich and steals the lives, minds, & souls of those who do the fighting while keeping those at home waving flags and rooting on the senselessness killing of the impoverished of the 3rd world for profit. No one is a hero in war times. Violence only begets more violence and this is something we must get away from to continue the move forward. Destruction of the earth and our race through violence will not sustain us anymore.
I have a much sunnier outlook on life than I have for most of the 3 decades I've been on this earth; I can not help but to feel the cycle of the ebb and flow of human exsistance is taking a turn for the worse.
For all that time we were looking into prosperity and a world of grand new experiences, I now see the ill effect of humanity balancing precariously back to a time of sadness and decay. Where literacy was something everyone had, it has become common place to no longer have the ability to read and still go through life without literacy. People spend hours on Twitter reading 140 character blips, but so few will spend that same amount of time reading a great full length work by a great published author. We work too little to pay our bills or so much we don't enjoy the benefits of being employed. We have sex partners and fuck buddies but we distance ourselves from having a lover because they might get them too close to us. People would rather watch the super rich fight with each other through a lens and a copper wire than have their mind expanded by something intellectual.
I realize it is just a down turn and a lull after a long batch of wonderful creativity; advancements in the arts, sciences, and human dignity were everyday and revolutionary new break throughs came to us almost more rapidly than we could grow accustom to. Sadly there were also advances in destruction, torment, harm and war. We learned to turn "crime" into profit and make criminal prosecution lucrative. We took the justice out of the justice system and made it about making money rather than protecting those who need the help of the the state. Now the profiteers hold all the cards.
It took great international and domestic shake ups to create change back when the world saw a total upheaval in its standards and practices in terms of human exsistance. Democracy and sanctions against torture came to be the ruling way of life. It took the bravery of those who were sick of the way things were and knew change had to take place for there to be a better world. They took it upon themselves to bring to light the wrongs and to fight the tyranny when they know the odds were stacked far against them. They took to any means necessary to gain respect as a human race and be known as back bone of the empire they were apart of, and decided to break free from.
But we have to watch out for needless and senseless loss of life in the changing paradigm. We must not see predation and stratification in society as natural and something that can continue at these gross disproportions. Unity and not conformity need to be our motto instead of letting them divide and conquer us.
When we live in a time when we spend more money killing the poor than it would cost to feed them we need to realign our values live in this world of plenty to its fullest. We can not joke about eating the poor when the food supply runs out. We need to see where innovation will be rewarded over mass profit margins. To sustain those that are brought into this world. Where they can have a standard of living this world can sustain for them and t future generations we produce. A disposable society is just that. Expendable and non enduring.
We don't need a larger television when the lands that supply the food to our future generations shows signs of decay. And the ability to create sustainably is only a scientific breakthrough away.
And just like we saw the French of the 1700's killing and filling the streets with blood (only to do it all over again when nothing of real substance changed). A revolution can not be centered in violence, it must be centered in change and progress for the whole of humanity and not a focus on the violent over throw of a political power that only has power when we give it control. We need to have our eyes opened to that fact that war feeds those who are infinitely rich and steals the lives, minds, & souls of those who do the fighting while keeping those at home waving flags and rooting on the senselessness killing of the impoverished of the 3rd world for profit. No one is a hero in war times. Violence only begets more violence and this is something we must get away from to continue the move forward. Destruction of the earth and our race through violence will not sustain us anymore.
