Download : Mourning The War That Never Ends (Audio)
I saw a Vietnam War Protest Sign that reads:
“NO WAR
HOW CAN WE
TEACH OUR CHILDREN
THAT VIOLENCE WILL NOT
SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS
WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT
ALWAYS TURNS TO VIOLENCE
TO SOLVE ITS PROBLEMS”
I’d like to say nothing has changed, but that would be erroneous. We have pro-fascist media outlets blasting fear and anger 24/7 to a population intentionally designed not to have the tools to ignore or combat them. The social contract is broken; the corruption no longer bothers to hide, as the enforcement mechanisms are captured. Wealth is being funneled upwards on an unprecedented scale, and while there is an endless supply for wars and tax breaks, there is always none left for you and me.
They’ve been waging war on us – privacy, drugs, human rights, voting, clean air and water, information, foreign and domestic interventions, and more – for quite a long time now, with no end in sight. So much of the pain we go through is needless and meaningless, all so a select few can have more on top of the more they already have. I mourn the war that never ends.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life.” -Issac Asimov
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.“ – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.