Saturday, February 2, 2008

the age of moral impossibility


I had a discussion with someone last night that was pretty upset over how stupid president bush is; how the deficit is higher, the war in iraq, the veto's, the interpretation of presidential power, etc. To be honest, I'm not too tickled over the situation either. In the last few days I've reviewed the 100% stolen election in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004. The mismanagement of Iraq. The lies perpetrated to force the nation into the Iraq war, and the deaf, dumb and blind senate and congress that stood by while all of the lies were perpetrated and did absolutely nothing.
But, the real problem isn't president bush, or anyone else. It's us. Joe Blow. Global warming? exploitation of developing nations, the raping and pillaging of our lands, seas, resources.... does it really make any difference who the president is, or who lives or dies when the systems and way of life that remains are rancid to the core, unsustainable and doing more harm? so what if 5,000,000 people die of starvation this year, if the upshot of our consuming of the world and destruction of the environment is that potentially 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 humans that could have been born, never get the chance because the earth has been destroyed, used up, poisoned, depleted and rendered useless for the pursuits that are meaningful to humans and all of gods creatures?
We've got much bigger fish to fry than georgie and opec.
and no one has the right to point a finger as long as they ride in a vehicle, switch a light, peel back some plastic on some food, or product, wear sweatshop clothes, use pharmaceuticals, eat a speck of animal products, use detergent......
the age of moral impossibility signals a call to everyone to do it "together" for we have reached a point where it is impossible to do it singly, or even alone.

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