broken hearts

i was going to post about water- and how we don’t have much potable water left in the world and how this is going to lead to privatization and wars- but i read the headlines again. i try hard not to read the news because it is too much for me. it breaks my heart. i am just absolutely overwhelmed at the lives we have ruined in the name of oil and greed and profits. oh sure- it is billed out as a ‘war on terror’ chasing down the elusive al qaida but i know in my heart- there is no al qaida- at least not the al quaida that the best military on the planet never seems able to catch. no- instead we have to go and bomb the shit out of any poor country with oil. odd that. and our ‘allies’- our friends- our brothers and sisters in god- well, the old saying goes- ‘you are as your friends are’ and the israelis are nothing if not greedy- for land that is. it is ironic that hitler used anti-semitism to acquire vast fortunes taken from his jewish victims- and now, a new century later- the israelis are doing the same thing to the palestinians. i wonder what the hell the somalians did to piss us off? i didn’t bother to read the news accounts of why we bombed in somalia. i figured the official version would be lies anyway.

the heart and soul of the world is being systematically broken by people who don’t have any. how long are we, the people, going to remain silent? i don’t believe in god and i am not sure that it would make a tinker’s dam worth of difference if i did. my heart would still be broken. but- i do believe in evil. evil exists- of that i am convinced. sitting by for decades knowing that the planet we live on was being decimated for profits- and not telling anyone- that’s evil. mining and overusing the resources on the planet for the profit of the few- that’s evil. invading and killing innocent people in the name of saving spoiled white westerners- for greed and profit- that’s evil. starting world war 3 on every continent on the planet- for greed and profit- that’s evil. believing that all of this is acceptable because the rest of the world isn’t white- that is the purest evil of them all. i don’t really give a rat’s ass if obama is christian or muslim- or if hillary is a man or a woman. what i do care about is that they don’t get endorsements from white supremacists who style themselves religious- and that they will inspire the people of this country towards finally doing the right thing- for this country but for the rest of the world too. we have much to atone for. and we need not be defensive about it- we need humility and humbleness as we try and right the wrongs committed in our names.