"We have an emergency!" was stated at a White House press conference as a reporter passed out from the heat in the room. Jean-Pierre rather unwittingly appropriately responded, "You are correct. It is hot in here,” “Um … I think we’re okay. I think we’re okay. And does anybody need water"
Rarely have truer words been spoken. Most certainly we do have an emergency. Far more widespread and more serious than that within that room, it is an emergency within our nation, within the nations of the world, and for sure within ourselves. It is an infection, a filthy disease which consumes us. Its malignant cells spread far and wide. There are those who welcome it with open arms. and blackened souls, eager to spread the illness and insure a demonic hopeless future, if any future at all. This prognosis does not bode well for humanity as we allow hatred to consume us from the inside out, destroying all bridges of possible return behind us.
In fact, it is not so much an emergency as a bursting of a long festering wound breaking through the last line of defense. It has become a pandemic as every nation on this globe, every individual, to some degree, as it consumes our souls, turns our hearts to stone and our humanity is lessened. Its ugliness, its rotten stench manifests itself more and more every day and volumes of toxicity pour forth from greedy, rapacious insatiable mouths.
Perhaps there is an innate need to hate. Perhaps it is a liberating feeling as societal restrictions on behavior are vacated. Anything goes. Sanity is redefined. We have set fire to the world. It is a fire which consumes the positive and reinforces the negative. Yes, we indeed have an emergency here. Water alone will not quench it. I fear only fierce fighting, blood in the streets will be the only manner in which we can restore proper societal order. We do indeed have an emergency and present actions and consequences bode no good for anyone.
This state of being is the to be expected growth and acceptance of negativity emanating from individuals who have lost the idea, the desire, of connectivity. It can be seen in yesterday's blog when I spoke of such behavior within our community. However, it does not remain within small communities. It grows, expands and stopping it seems to be a futile desire, a useless effort as the force of its ugliness overcomes all. Unless we act promptly, strongly, I believe, even as I desperately desire not to believe so, that we are standing on a precipice, crumbling beneath our feet and below are rocks and dangerous currents waiting to break and consume all who fall into its grip.
o far and wonder what will be as Penn Cage has triumphed before over massive evil, but always at great cost. Will this novel be the same? Will we follow that road to self-destruction, light the matches and pour the gasoline, feed our own greed at the cost of disaster to others? Will we discern truths, of both sides, and work something out or is it too late?
Have we in fact lost "fealty to the American ideal" as Cage thinks? I am right there with him even though some of the apologist narrative found in many new books is a tad annoying at present, overemphasizing the Black vs White narrative, ignoring the fact that there are other issues at fault, at the center of the growing flames which must be addressed and acknowledged, along with the Black vs White arena. The destructive synergy of these hate pods. are far more evil, far more than the sum of their parts. They are actually a whole, for the seed and the root are the same: the need of some to hate, to demean, to be beasts within their human skins. Far too powerful in our current world.
We are consuming ourselves, cannibalizing our society, disregarding or not seeing truths which should be evident. One of the first steps which must be taken in combating this blindness is to address our broken system of education in this nation and in the world. When the heads of our educational systems are themselves faulty, pocked with hatred, how can we expect anything other than poisonous results? When the college professors are raging with anti-Israel and Anti Semitism within their supposed educational classrooms, how can we expect education to take place rather than propaganda, including the supposed to be impartial college newspapers!
The arrogance of hate is overwhelming. When the head of the Nevada System of Higher Education can state openly, blatantly of his own antisemitism, of his hatred of Jews and denial of the depths of the Holocaust, what can we expect of those who work beneath him? " We have a small group of people because they were set upon in World War II, have the notion that they could set themselves up in a higher position than anyone else in the United States." He told Jewish students re the rife vicious antisemitism to "get in line".
Wherefore art thou Socrates, Plato, Mark Twain, George Washinton, et al, wise heads of the ages who spoke well of Jews and other groups facing prejudice and violence, who spoke of tolerance and democracy, of equality and rule of law? Certainly not within the burgeoning groups of hate we are fostering these days.
Tomorrow, we continue and move forward and speak of the heroes of today, those who speak out against the dictators running their countries, those who hate democracy, who imprison and kill all who defy them. They are the heroes of the day and the paths forward for humankind. If and when we ignore them, we do so at our own peril.
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Yitzy, we have a long hard slog if we are to save this planet and ourselves from ourselves. We must end the harm we do it and to the people who live upon it. A helping hand from Above would go far in our battle.
Miss you. Always and forever. Always and forever.
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