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THE DAWN OF
CIVILIZATION
"Try as they might to make mass murder acceptable and
patriotic, deep in our collective American hearts, we know it's wrong."
Americans
demand recreation areas and protected forests and estuaries nationally, and
parks and walking trails locally. They appreciate being supplied with good facilities
for their travelling adventures, in this system of national and state parks. That
would seem logical for a country that includes "The pursuit of happiness"
in the preamble to its Constitution. Then why does 800 billion dollars go to
war every year, and only 4 BILLION goes to enhancing the national park
system?
Making a 150 million dollar fighter jet is
absolutely more important than anything nature has to offer. This is what the
government is telling us with this lopsided budget.
Why should taxes go to a park ranger explaining the difference between red squirrels and brown squirrels during a guided tour? How is that a priority?
Why should taxes go to a park ranger explaining the difference between red squirrels and brown squirrels during a guided tour? How is that a priority?
What
about the supply and demand Republicans are always braying about with our
economy? Our National Parks have a dearth of facilities and maintenance is
spotty, but crowds continue to grow. There is a big demand from the people of
America, --- the supply part of supply
and demand, you know. Park expansion, safety and preservation has been
subverted by corporations that profit from war by the army of lobbyists in Washington..
THE PEOPLE WANT PARKS NOT WAR.
The American
people are out there trying to have a grand vacation visiting the big spots, only
to find stinky bathrooms, traffic jams, tour guides swamped with crowds. Not
only are you creating recreation for today when land is purchased and preserved,
but wild space for ever and ever.
Pondering all this, how does a new "advanced" fighter jet for 150 million ever make
sense?
It makes sense because everyone has
gotten fat off the government the last sixty years, and now they slap "my
guns my god and my money…you keep the change" bumper stickers on their
cars, not realizing the markets that government encouraged created their
prosperity, from markets as diverse as Dairy and Nuclear Energy. The capitalists slipped America a roofie, 60
years ago, and have not stopped ravaging her. They can't believe that no one
has stopped them, so they keep taking from her.
Making weapons and selling weapons is
profitable and creating wars to destroy them, so they can make more, . Making
weapons is a dirty income and many of these tea baggers profited, and perhaps
you are too with your investments. Now that they’ve got their pensions and
social security, they are quickly closing the barn door so no one else can
share this wealth they stole indirectly from our natural resources. Dear
reader, if you invest, then divest of your poison stocks, because it is time to
think about the next million years on this planet. Invest Green best you can.
The Klondike Capitalism of the Green Movement needs to be regulated as little
as possible. Raw milk producers want
regulations eased but Big Dairy is firmly in the drivers seat. A long battle
lay ahead.
War
is good for the economy, it creates JOBS we were told our entire
childhood. "World War 2 lifted us out of the depression", is another
myth that has become reality. The truth was that the explosion of innovations
after WW2 was actually possible because of all the scientific improvements made
in the 1930's. In radio, refrigeration, electricity, and all the other fields
of science and innovation, knowledge rapidly expanded. A real prosperity was
developing and lively cultures were
booming again in many cities, then the war disrupted everything. Good times
were on the way, as the world retooled itself after the Great Depression.Then
we are told the Big War created prosperity, when all it really did was create
devastation and misery. Brainwashing of the highest order, World War 2 as being
good for the economy is a complete lie, but 80% of Americans believe it's true.
Reducing our 800 billion dollar a year Pentagon budget would "make us
weak" and "could wreck the economy" we are told in 2013.
Do
you truly believe we are preserving American freedom by the wars in Korea,
Vietnam, proxy wars in Central America, and 2 wars with Iraq and the furthest
away of all, Afghanistan? War may help the Gross National Product and is
lucrative for people with stocks in weapon manufacturing and oil companies, but
it doesn’t work in real life anymore, unless you are getting a pension from
your Weapon maker job. If your conscience doesn't propel you to divest away
from companies that pollute our planet or degrade any part of humanity, then
the falling stock prices of companies that come under fire as regulators
investigate fraud, surely will make you sell those stocks. Falling stock prices of companies that are
effectively boycotted, will be another incentive.
Try as they might to make mass murder acceptable and
patriotic, deep in our collective American hearts we know it’s wrong
The Greatest Generations antiquated notions
of how everyone has their place, was put to the test and failed. The boomers saw this world filled with racism
and sexism that existed with our young hopeful eyes, and collectively our
disgust level was so high that things were changed the last 50 years. Thank you
to all who have stood up for equality, you are the actual patriots. Why couldn’t
a black guy or a woman be hired for any job? Why not pay the woman the same as
a man? Whazzup with that? We didn’t get
it.
Will there
ever be a disgust level with war, which will help us change? Not until
societies embrace the feminine, it seems. Women are always trying to fit in,
but most cultures do not mix the masculine and feminine very well. How can a
smooth polarity of the masculine and feminine be achieved, as cultures constantly
chafe as an exuberant maleness continues to slow us down.
Incivility and brutality is the
result of the warrior elites dominance of most societies the last 2500 years. The
incivility and wildness is not the primitive paleo wildness we have forgotten,
but the authoritarian despotism of
manipulative men, and the fealty of the sycophant chumps that ring their bell while
they stockpile ammunition. This has led to a false patriotism, the War without
end. Always enemies to kill, God bless
you.
America
is here as a place for you to breathe free, to be anything but ordinary if you
choose, and to help hold the light of liberty for all who strive for freedom. I
encourage all countries to create new covenants with people to create equality
and freedom. For people that want to escape repression, we need to create safe
havens for refugees. Not a global order, but decentralized spheres of influence with minimum standards for all to
follow voluntarily.
We must upgrade our earth
manners and safety nets for all. Your good efforts will be returned threefold
as the momentum of all of us working toward a humane humanity, is finally on
our side. It is the darkest before dawn.
The theme to most American movies, the good
guy wins in the end is all fine and dandy, but they have all been pyrrhic
victories. Life has to be more than vanquishing enemies. They
won’t be real victories till we can encode
liberty, embed equality, ostracize criminality and vanquish cruelty in all the
countries in the world.
Let’s give ourselves the chance for a new
start, with the rejection of violence, and we will usher in, at long last, The
Dawn of Civilization. All of us together in every country: Out of many,
one; Unity without hierarchy. We are
ready.
THIS is my
suggestion for a 28th amendment Henry David Thoreau, "A free and enlightened State
recognizes the individual as a higher and independent power, from which, all
its own power and authority are derived."
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