I know we have all heard about how silly the concept of a “War on Terror” is but I have to vent a little.

First of all, this ridiculous war title really should be renamed what it really is… “The War On People Who Are Violently Angry With Us”. That is what terror is, right? People who are shit-blind angry and repressed and will come up with creatively devastating ways to hurt people and, more importantly, scare the shit out of the rest of us. How on Gods green earth would you win a war by fucking up and killing 45,000 to 800,000 Iraqi civilians (depending on who you ask). Civilians. Regular people like us. You can figure that each of those people had 2-10 people that loved them enough to be shit-blind angry for life about it. So angry that they would be down to get creative on the mutherfucker who did it. Humans are intensely passionate and crafty as hell. You can’t fight a war on people being mad as fuck. It is the most assinine concept the government and the American people subscribe to.

Now this is not some psuedo-intellectual super liberal complaining. This is more of a commentary on how easy it is to lead millions of good people in a direction that can go against their morals, values, hurt people and oddly enough, hurt themselves. The combined might of mass media and the inherent need for humans to follow those who lead us has time and time again brought us to a situation that leaves so many in peril and a select few reaping the gains. So I figure it goes like this:

- We need to have something/someone to follow. (God, politicians, sometimes a mix of the two)

- We believe what we hear if the source seems credible enough. The ease to gain that credibility that is also frightening. 95% of gaining that credibility is purely visual (skin color, age, sex, baldness).

-A River called Denial. Once we have committed and have begun believing in something it is strangely difficult for people to reevaluate unconditionally. So, no matter how ludicrous, how outrageous or unbelievable… we will continue to push forward and build a vision of the world that fits with the fucked up situation you have subscribed to.

It is because of these three things that I have so much trouble having faith that we will be able to band together like bees and really make some amazing progress on this planet. That iron curtain surrounds people and blinds their ability to see outside of their religion and vision of the world will always stunt growth.

It is too large a task to get the planet to take a hard look and inventory themselves regularly. An honest inventory. An inventory that is not built on the foundation of our superiority complex but an inventory based on the fact that none of us know shit about shit.

We know so little. Our thinking is so limited. We require everything to have a beginning and an end. Infinite possibilities give us the willies so we prefer to live in a teeny-tiny box with sealed windows and bark at anyone who tries to guide us outside.

I am not speaking from the pulpit where I know what the deal is. I don’t know shit about shit. I do know that an inventory is a requirement with all of us. A regular check up on our beliefs, our morals, or work, our relationships, what we eat, what we do, who we follow, how we lead, who we are. You must go against the grain of what has come pre-built inside of us. We have evolved but our instincts have not. It requires effort and awareness with a heaping helping of patience and persistence. This quality of life and the lives that have yet to be lived depend on us doing better and trying harder to do what is right. The key is figuring out what is right, right?

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