Yesterday, our Nation witnessed a brutal attack on young minds of America- a slaying of victims that were citizens of our country. In the hours when the death toll count was in flux, the number was static and we all deeply knew that a tragedy had occurred. And we lift our Spirit to their families. We send Hope and Mourning. We send our Hearts.
Why do we kill? Is it such an impossibly fundamental question?
These acts are senseless. And they spread like cancer. Violence breeds more Violence. Haven't we seen that the Gun, is just slinging rocks that kill? Has it solved any problems in the best manner? Turn your eye to the Middle East.
Is it fair to call it swinging rocks- guns have liberated peoples from oppression. Guns have been used as tools for centuries since the first spark of flint hit steal. We have a Constitutional right to bear a weapon. But this is not what I question. I do not question the motives of Guns- because Guns serve a human purpose.
What is the American Dream? Ask any scholar and I'm sure they'll give you a winded answer. But what does it include for you? Does it involve safer streets, communities, hospitals, work places?
Do you remember, Violence breeds Violence?
Why do we allow our Sons and Daughters to die on the battlefield of a WAR THAT WE DO NOT SUPPORT? Why does American currency, that has been earned on American sweat, fund the deaths of human beings? Brothers and Sisters of this Planet.
Why do we Kill? Have we lost Hope? A Beacon awaits.
3 comments:
Liked your blog.. sure this earth is a blue burden, and sometimes so is life.. your solutions seem wonderful utopian,, but people in general are selfish, cruel and this is why violence can never be stopped, but people like us can just keep hoping and try to spread our little peace..
I agree with you that Utopia does not exist, certainly not in the Marxist sense as we see time and time again. The problem is power. Someone has to be entrusted with more power to ensure the security and order of others... and power corrupts.
Do we really want equality and things of that nature?
They're ideas of a civilized, modern age that values safety and freedom, however, I would submit that it's not a natural human impulse but something learned and conditioned into us.
What are our instincts as children? To fight, dominate our siblings, survive...
Aside from our natural impulses there's also the complication of religion.
Holy crap, religion. God, infinate power, infinate glory. Defending our beliefs, our motherland, our "god given" right to dominate others. A sort of manifest destiny the rationalizes, empowers and validates people to fight to the death for those values, or for those leaders who claim to know the will of the almighty creator of all things. Look at the Catholic church in the dark ages, and the middle east today. Sunni against Shiite, one is holier so the other must die?
Just think of the ancient aztec and other Indian civilization were death and murder was a part of everyday life, human sacrifice was an accepted part of culture...
We can hope for peace all we want but in thinking about it, if it weren't for the brutality of our armies throughout history, especially American history, there would be no nation as we know it now. Someone else would have dominated.
Violence to an extent is the necessary dark underbelly of survival... that does not however give a modern, established, civilized society that recognizes the benefits of life and freedom, the right to invade a nation on false pretenses, to maim kill and destroy because they thought it would be easy and profitable, to impose our Western philosophy on an ancient people, to decide who lives of dies based on who serves our interests best!
This self righteous, moralistic hypocrit of a president should at least admit what he is: a murderer.
Peace? I'm not sure we're advanced enough forget the violence, it will always be a part of humanity.
I think that maybe the best that we all can do is to find that inner peace wihin ourselves and live to serve higher ideals than our ancestors... to constantly strive for progress and growth.
Stagnation and clinging to the past is dangerous and is often the cause of strife in this modern age.
We must keep pressing forward.
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