On connections in our modern day world.
I am completely convinced that we have royally screwed ourselves as a species. I watch every morning as other half-awake drivers force themselves to work in the morning, fill up on blood-oil, and persuade themselves into believing that "this is the best I can do. Sure, Wal Mart doesn't pay well, but it's a job, and I should be lucky just to have a paycheck."
What the HELL is going on here??
We imprison ourselves inside of our houses, our cars, our jobs; we don't care about anyone else in our life-long quest to find happiness. The truly saddening part is that in our capitalistic society, happiness is directly related to success, money, materialism, and stabbing and throwing our fellow mate under the bus in blind efforts to become the ideal citizen. We drive cars that pollute our environment, spend our money filling our cars with oil that was taken from the Earth not knowing what repercussions are involved, dine on food that has been enhanced with god knows what chemicals, and then dig a ditch and toss it all back in as garbage. Brilliant.
Sure, we have a president who isn't Bush, but really? Banks are still making more money than ever with stimulus packages and nobody is doing anything about it. Bills are still in consideration for off-shore drilling in California. Gay marriage is still banned. People are still concerned with who's part of what group, and what sub-groups these groups are divided into and if we spend all of our time trying to categorize things we're never going to get anywhere. We do NOT govern ourselves and we are not making the decisions.
There are 306 million people in the United States. 6 billion world-wide. We can offer recovery packages in the US for companies that use the word trillion in relation to some phony green paper, but there are thousands upon thousands of starving, homeless, sick, injured, dying and hopeless people in EVERY country.
What makes this okay? How is it possible for a group of 6 billion individuals to allow this to continue to happen? Do you think that as a civilization we can't produce enough food for everyone on Earth? Build a modest place to live for every human? Place more emphasis on life and well-being then on money and being better than the next guy? What makes us say "It's their own fault they're in the situation they're in"? How dare you insult the poor, or question why they are the way they are.
Because you didn't grow up in the ghetto and have to drop out of school to support your three brothers, this makes you a better person? Because you had time to study for your English exam and he was worried about the police taking his father to jail for stealing to feed his family? I don't have the answers or solutions to make our present-day nightmare disappear, but it is time to stop convincing ourselves that we should be lucky for what we have been given and start wanting more. We should be wanting immediate change. I am done with hearing that "these things take time", or "you can't expect change to come over night" because that is exactly how change happens. When you change your clothes, do you only put on a shirt and then tell your boss he's just going to have to wait six more months for your underwear and pants to be developed? No.
Of all the homeless, jobless Americans, how many would say no to a paycheck? Why are we not putting these people to work? As if there aren't things to be improved upon? Where is the massive environmental update process happening? What if we took even a small portion of cash we send to our militia's offensive efforts over seas and started mass producing solar panels instead of assault riffles. What if instead of buying trillions of dollars worth of oil from the middle east we just stopped? What 'they' are telling us, without really saying it, is that we can't handle change.
We can't figure out a good alternative to oil. We can't find other logical sources of energy that don't create wars and cause people to suffer and die. We won't look outside of the box for alternatives because they know that we're too stupid. We are so rapped up in the day-to-day, drama-hungry, celebrity-wannabe, reality-induced-coma of life on Earth that we don't give ourselves time to even begin thinking about solutions. Our lives are so stressful that we long to come home after slaving the day away and brain wash ourselves with mindless repetitive bull. Science says there is no unknown. There is no magic or mystery to life and it's all just a bunch of neurons and brain waves. Religion stresses that we care about each other, but we constantly butt heads because our beliefs are too set in stone and have become more important than actually listening to what some one has to say. We are a divided people and it's painful for me to watch. Our values are worthless and people have forgotten to think about the greater picture. People have forgotten to think.
This is by ALL means a complaint. And yes, I am being negative, but it's because I care so much about the choices we are making for our outcome as a civilization. We are a brainwashed world, and there are people in control of the brainwashing. Choosing what you hear in the news, what you listen to on your iPod, and what you are eating (or not eating) for dinner. We can only imagine what is really going on behind the large veil that has been pulled over our eyes. We can only control our own actions and choose to say no to being blind.
