And aren't we the worse off for it? I am talking about the ugliness of this world. Yes, there are good people around. Boy George was a welcome example of that. And there are others around. But so many, too many are afraid to speak up. Or they feel enabled to speak up, entitled to speak up and out of their mouth spews Hate beyond all imagining. It almost doesn't make a difference at whom this hate is aimed. For when one runs out of one group as a target why not pick up the next group? Whomever is in our sights.
We are even taking that ugliness into the world of nature. Into a world that was given to us pristine. and fruitful. Look at what we have done now. Areas of fertility are useless for agriculture. Areas of drought are now inundated with floods, floods greatly destructive in their effects. The very ground of the earth is shaking. Loudly, strongly, impatiently. Trying to send us a message. Well, I think most of us are not heeding the warnings. Willingly refusing to know the truth.
We are ugly in the choices we make. We go back decades to find something to hang on a person whose transgression was minor, certainly compared to the grievous ones of our day who would suit our needs quite well and boo them out of the running. Meanwhile we overlook or even cheer on, even forgiving the worst offenses and all due to their bribe giving and taking, the could care less attitude for the people they are meant to serve. Greatly overlooked are the filth and the machinations of the crooks who now abide as a majority in our houses and offices of government. Why should they not do as their President has done, amassing personal fortune on the backs of the inhabitants, of the land which was entrusted to him.
Overlooked are the filth and the crooks that are right here in our faces, right now. Blatantly so. As I look around all that can be seen at present is hypocrisy. Selfishness. Greed. An absolute blanket denial of anything that is right. Anything that needs to be addressed so as to make it right. And anything that is wrong, so clearly very wrong. But apparently is met by universal blindness.
This corruption is not the purview of one person or one party. It seems that all who are engaged. In the business of politics, have found that it behooves them far more if they engage in the crooked practices so ably set forth by the President. But it is not just him. It is all parties. All political parties seem to have taken a get mean and do wrong pill. All are engaged in selfish actions. All seem to ignore the moral laws of society. Everything Is evaluated offn the basis of how it meets their goals.
The mantra of their life being gimme, gimme, gimme. I want, I want, I want. Just like the President and his officials and those of the Democratic Party, of all political parties, reach out with grasping hands open only to take, but not to give. What is there for them, not for others, not to help others. There is a meanness about people that was not here before.
We engage in a case of selective deafness so dense that we do not hear even our own inner voices calling out to us, shrieking to us. Don't you hear the cries of those who are hungry? Don't you hear the cries of those parents who cannot feed their children? Don't you hear the cries of those with skeletal children in Africa? Or from the hungry children here in America. And of those shivering or broiling depending upon the weather, unable to find shelter. Unable to find release. Unable to find a. safe place to lay down their heads and those of their children. Or the broken bodies of the elderly. Needing proper food. Proper homes, proper medical care. But unable to do so because any and all programs meant to help them have been canceled or whittled down to barely anything.
And all the while we have a growing divide between the haves and the have nots. Actually, the haves have become the have haves, have it almost all. The have nots are losing their hard fought and won position in society. Where if one worked hard, white collar, blue collar, one, was able to make a living. To support a family. To give to charity. And feel blessed. Now those who were able to manage are finding it much more difficult. Those who are once solidly middle class are wobbling and slipping.
This picture of the reality of this world gets even uglier. Know nothings have permeated our government and have actually caused death and disease where there had been none, or very little. Know nothings are wreaking havoc upon this nation, this world. Know nothings presume to know everything and make decisions based on their ignorance and people die because of it. Children get measles where once they did not get it anymore. Diseases once thought to be at least tamed are now running wild. New pathogens. New bacteria. All are coming around, hanging around. Surging forth in quite scary attacks upon life. And the surety that we once felt is fading away.
Even more frightening is the fact that we have allowed artificial intelligence to run wild through our societies. A pastor boasted in church to many of the parishioners re his enormous use of AI, even during counselling his parishioners. That is obscene! The truth of history is being challenged. Historical books written by robots. By AI Creatures. Where does one go for the truth now? How does one know what is true and what is not? Fiction. Nonfiction. What are we supposed to believe? How can we distinguish between true emotions and those that are false? Creepily false. How do we know which nonfiction book is telling the truth about the person they are doing a biography about? Or reporting on a history of a past event or a current event.
The answer is there appears to be no way out. We seemed to take 10 backwards for any forward movement. Once upon a time, we knew there were faults in the world. And once upon a time we made great efforts to eradicate these faults. Or at least ameliorate consequences. But now it seems we welcome it all back. Even admire those with the highest rate of approval for all that sours this world.
Humanity has made such a wrong turn. I don't know why humanity thinks that when they invent new words or new definitions of words, that is going to make things oh so much better. The Boo- Boo will be fixed. But it seems as if we are only making the problem more of a problem. Higher degree of a problem. Judges and lawyers, those who are supposed to uphold the law, the moral laws of society have they themselves been absorbed into it and given way to the way of life of bribery and corruption.
What are we doing, fellow Americans? Why are we allowing ourselves to do evil to others? Because they have another color, another religion, another ethnicity, another belief? What are we doing to the people of the world, those whom it is upon us to help. To make this world a better place for us having been here.
There are those of us who are extremely concerned. Who worry about the fate of the world. Who do not look away. Who do not think that these problems will go away. Some of us turned to the comfort of religion. Some of us turned to the comfort of drugs and alcohol and wild destructive lives. Some of us do the minimum. Some choose YOLO.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
Was it always so? Destined to be so bad? So crazed in the directions we chose to walk. To think. To live.
If we do not take the lessons of yesterdays and use them to begin to remedy the todays, we will never be able to trust in a new tomorrow.
And then what, folks.
And then what?
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