Mood:
caffeinated
After reading about this topic for discusison at this travel message bulletin board, I was intrigued at how Noam Chomsky was interwoven into the debate. Someone had called him a 'communist agitator'.
Alas...
Chomsky is the premier outspoken media critic and social
commentor of
our times. That communists feel agitated is incidental to the
philisophical embodiment of his lifes work. I just dont think he
came (ahem) prepackaged with an agenda or a message for sale.
But I have concluded that there is a definitive lack of love in the
world. And that this is related to a hierarchy of values.
Where do we place values? If a diamond and gold ring
on some persons hand was paid for in blood and death and
that person
become an (albeit) unwitting(?) participant in support
of death...whether it because a gold mine poisoned
a river and a people or destroyed a food supply or brought
sales of guns that end up in the hands of children..
what good is it if that gold ring ends up
on your hand raised in church ?
I think in essense what it comes down to is that people
value other people. Unlike people whose twisted sense
of self worth and power goes straight to their heads ..
history is littered with leaders whose vaunted sense
of self worth left death destruction and mayhem in its wake.
Yet I have come to the conclusion that conflicts on a global
scale are decreasing.
(Due to my somewhat contrarian nature, I would feel relieved
if someone broke my bubble)
Yet these points just dont mesh.
That how could this possibly take place alongside of
a lack of love in this world? We can't all just point
to terror as the "enemy". Assauge the worlds pain
with feelings of security retrofitted with
a complacency that our enemies wont "hurt us".
Or use them as an excuse to cancel out other peoples,
other lands, other nations priorities...preempt their
philosophies.
Maybe
as the world descends out of it own madness, still in effect
dizzy from the reverbatating effects inflicted psychologically
on this generation
..the nature abhoring technological tools that enhance the
roles communication plays in our lives displaces the rush
to feel genuine happiness,genuine freedom et al...how many
people have at one point turned to the Net hoping it might
fill a vac or need in their lives? As a type of springboard
to some type of neverending land of bliss and Utopia
where the din from such a paradisical place just gets annoying.
But back on the travel board topic, I may have meandered
down that lonely lane of preaching from the pulpit to the
converted after reading this article: Archbishop Warns of Childhood Crisis in Britain.
But in essence I think what people are talking about , beyond
what they label themselves as left,right, center,
left of center, right of center..beyond how they are perceived and
labeled
..or cat called or heckled...is that a one size fits all
of political philosophy (,,,<<-Walmart)
is too much of a burden for the world to bear when it comes
to nations engaging each other..but that this is not too much
to bear for the simple
cause of peace...what a world it is we dreamed of so
expansive and large...when all we needed was a glimpse of a
a universe so huge to shrink our imaginations
back from being so small.
But hey as for my self, I never would buy and consume a
Che Guevera soda...but the alternative of a Coke is
really not looking all that attractive. Just for the
"health" of it as they say. ..... right down to this micro level of an internet
messagboard, we are living out the zeitgeist of our times.
This, in essence, is it. As we live and breathe. Its amazing ..
yet at times staggering in contemplating its implications
for use BOTH a tool for social change and making money
Maybe we should all try to find that happy medium.
