"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" has become a persistent earworm for me. Never ending, though be sure it is not referring to the children's dance. No, it is referring to the same old, same old with modern day additions. It is a state of despair, ever darkening in tandem with the growing concern. It is a state of constant query as to the future, if there is to be a future, one of positivity rather than dark and dreary, rife with the worst of mankind. As was yesterday and all the days of yesterday, the many days of the present and the infinite days of tomorrow stretching into an endless gloomy series of tomorrows.
The news every day is the same, albeit with insertions of substitute countries and persona, but the result is the same. No change other than the constant lessening level of oxygen as we struggle to breathe in the stifling atmosphere we encounter. Day after day. Yesterdays and tomorrows merging together, swallowing the todays, in an emerging boundaryless gray world.
No, this is not the end result of yesterday's lovely round of doctor visits, a mixed bag, but instead the sad sack state of the world today. No Sarge upon whom to lay the blame, no rescue via pet dog or sheer timely blind luck. The guilt for this ugliness threatening to swallow the world lies with US. All of us - those fighting on both sides of the divide. We allowed it, encouraged it, by supporting it, ignoring it, opposing it lackadaisically, or too little too late, not truly understanding the steepness of the hill before us, the last obstacle in our path to keep American democracy, world democracy, healthy and vital.
How else to explain the unexplainable, as Americans fall under the spell of a faux Hitler, an American despot/king wannabe, an immoral, amoral, indicted criminal, fraud of the highest degree. This ever increasingly demented man, evil personified, as are his supporters, or evil deniers, equally at fault, as they refused and continue to refuse to see the truth, to admit their egregiously wrong, dangerous support of such a scumbag.
Amerca remains firmly embedded in the muck and mire of the road to failure; actually, we are already up to the hubcaps in that filth. The world vibrates and shatters along with America, its resignation of leadership proving to be a mortal wound to the world. Exactly how long this trend will continue, will it ever end, the extent of the resultant harm, repairable or not, all remain shrouded, doubtful, deep in the realm of great uncertainty.
Israel, invaded, its citizens butchered, tortured, stolen, subjected to violence unspeakable, ignored by the world, denied even as the proof, the truth, was there. THERE. At long last the UN, shamed into admitting "reasonable" suspicions to believe it all, that truth is diluted via accusations sans proof of the same behavior of the Israeli forces. Even as they admit to ongoing captive torment - or their location, alive, dead, the refusal to return them - Israel is taxed with demands to feed and water a quite well fed non dehydrated population, not a hair out of place. Even as the "two days from starvation" never materializes. An enemy population the vast majority of whom are either complicit or implicit in cooperation with the goal to destroy Israel and then world Jewry. The willful blindness, deafness, even the encouragement of the world countries unabated. Snatch defeat from the mouth of victory. Well, NO!! Never. Ever.
Wherever one looks these days there is evil. Incompatibility stressed, differences highlighted, and humanity, in every context of the word denied and violated. Rights fought and died for are being rescinded with worse to follow. Lies are valued over truths and the bigger, the more outlandish the lies and the liar, the more admiration directed that way.
Humankind is busy furthering its own destruction, even to the point of denying rampant, dangerous climate change. Fierce destructive weather where it never existed before, invading species of flora and fauna, vast pandemics and returns of old once defeated illnesses. A world becoming increasingly uninhabitable yet merrily we roll along, until the wagon will roll off the ends of a newly declared square, flat world.
Can we follow that script for aid? The one which states: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence will come my aid." Can we, will we, ever admit that there is a higher power, whatever the name or theory we assign it? Has our arrogance once again brought us to yet another Biblical proportion destruction? Can we ever learn, internalize that all humanity is tied together, and we share the fate of the world. Do we understand the next step in our arrogance, thinking we can assume the role of creators of intelligent lifeform, a sentient being, brighter, more intuitive, able to increase its brainpower far faster than its creators - us. How false a belief!
Will we persist in the false idea that religion and faith are one and the same? Faith, a pure untainted faith, can compete with religion, man-made, complete with the built-in prejudices and imperfections of mankind. True faith recognizes the shared values of people all over the world and no religion is superior to another.
That to see a woman and child huddled in the rain beneath the rather dubious shelter of an underpass is just so wrong, so very wrong! That it is far better to house the homeless than amass numerous huge homes remaining empty most of the year, housing perhaps mainly our own egos? Or the desire to be better than the others as we host dinners of massive amounts of food and then discard so much, even as so many face food insecurity and even starvation?
When will we ever learn? Will we ever learn?
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Yitzy, sweet innocent boy who never could be unkind, so foreign such a thought or deed was to you, what do you see as you look down upon us. Can you see into the future? Is there a future, a good one? Can humanity turn things around, pull ourselves out of the hole we dug for ourselves? In time to avoid catastrophe?
So many things we would have loved to share with you as you grew into a man. To share our lives with you. Denied to us. But remember, we continue to love you and keep you alive, an integral part of our lives.
That will never stop.
Always and forever. Always and forever.
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