humanity challenged once again
:: the gods of war have unleashed their demons upon us
in my personal opinion, the difference between animals and humans is conscience. to sit and passively watch and read about the war, one has to wonder how anyone benefits from hatred, agression and another person's pain.
devoid of political orientation and ideological leanings, i believe war is a clear evidence of humanity's failure. whether we encourage the warmongers or their corrupt ex-agents, one must realise that our collective memories are unfortunately short and easily alterable.
how could we fail to distinguish right from wrong, miscontrue human notions of morality and immorality after having witnessed and lived through *modern* horrors of two major european wars, ethnocentrically named *world wars*. if they weren't enough, we were collectively dragged through monumental mistakes such as allowing the soviet empire to clamp down on half of the world's aspirations and sit still while the leaders of the "free world" supported ruthless and corrupt dictators around the globe. did we not see the same footage and the same archives come out of vietnam after we had all said never again and repeated never ever again?
then how can we, the more enlightened population, allow that our governments spend so much on armament and "security" and invest so few of our collective ressources in healthcare, research and fair trade?
why did we sit by while the thugs and henchmen of our new millenium were at *freedom*'s service, killing and gasing *evil* forces and *ennemy* populations.
why? who wins? two questions that we have been discouraged to pose and have shamefully avoided.
i will never understand how one can enjoy or justify the brutal act of killing another.
perhaps, because i never bullied other children in the schoolyard. i will never understand because i never understood why highschool boys carried knives. i will never understand because i never wanted to own a gun, never cherished a toy gun nor aspired to carry one. i still fail to grasp how running after a wild animal and shooting it in cold blood could ever seem like the trill and the source of my manhood. shooting a pigeon will never stimulate me. but somehow, young evil boys that stuff frogs with firecrackers grow up to be generals and defense ministers, create and sit on security and defense policy boards and relish at the thought of new tools of human annihilation.
that is how warmongers' gains and boyish thrills become our collective chagrin and the source of humanity's failure.
very sad stories and failures have lead to a series of episodes that litter humanity's path and the following link is only a glimpse to several past, current and future tragedies that occur when we fail to hold evil power hungry thugs that manage our countries and resources under appropriate scrutiny:
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_291202.html
:: the gods of war have unleashed their demons upon us
in my personal opinion, the difference between animals and humans is conscience. to sit and passively watch and read about the war, one has to wonder how anyone benefits from hatred, agression and another person's pain.
devoid of political orientation and ideological leanings, i believe war is a clear evidence of humanity's failure. whether we encourage the warmongers or their corrupt ex-agents, one must realise that our collective memories are unfortunately short and easily alterable.
how could we fail to distinguish right from wrong, miscontrue human notions of morality and immorality after having witnessed and lived through *modern* horrors of two major european wars, ethnocentrically named *world wars*. if they weren't enough, we were collectively dragged through monumental mistakes such as allowing the soviet empire to clamp down on half of the world's aspirations and sit still while the leaders of the "free world" supported ruthless and corrupt dictators around the globe. did we not see the same footage and the same archives come out of vietnam after we had all said never again and repeated never ever again?
then how can we, the more enlightened population, allow that our governments spend so much on armament and "security" and invest so few of our collective ressources in healthcare, research and fair trade?
why did we sit by while the thugs and henchmen of our new millenium were at *freedom*'s service, killing and gasing *evil* forces and *ennemy* populations.
why? who wins? two questions that we have been discouraged to pose and have shamefully avoided.
i will never understand how one can enjoy or justify the brutal act of killing another.
perhaps, because i never bullied other children in the schoolyard. i will never understand because i never understood why highschool boys carried knives. i will never understand because i never wanted to own a gun, never cherished a toy gun nor aspired to carry one. i still fail to grasp how running after a wild animal and shooting it in cold blood could ever seem like the trill and the source of my manhood. shooting a pigeon will never stimulate me. but somehow, young evil boys that stuff frogs with firecrackers grow up to be generals and defense ministers, create and sit on security and defense policy boards and relish at the thought of new tools of human annihilation.
that is how warmongers' gains and boyish thrills become our collective chagrin and the source of humanity's failure.
very sad stories and failures have lead to a series of episodes that litter humanity's path and the following link is only a glimpse to several past, current and future tragedies that occur when we fail to hold evil power hungry thugs that manage our countries and resources under appropriate scrutiny:
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_291202.html
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