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Last Updated: Oct 16th, 2008 - 13:33:17 |
Rather than having my e-mail box made into a receptacle for crazy gibberish and slanderous hate speech, which it seems to be well on its way toward becoming, I will keep this week's commentary within the realm of socially acceptable jargon.
If it proves effective, that is. It seems that I have an honest man’s chance in the White House of getting anything across to people when I let loose and write words that ought to be written.
But I answer to a higher power and write accordingly. And in that sense, I am just as terribly bereft of logic and sanity as any Republican or religious maniac walking the streets. But we are all crazy, and he who claims otherwise is crazier than the rest.
Which brings me to focus here. In our heart of hearts we all know each other to be the same people with the same values. So why so much fuss? Why so much disparity in our political views? We all have the same goals, the same end in mind. What person does not want peace, health, laughter and music?
It is hard to imagine why anybody would support war and human conflict for any other reason than that they assume those measures to be their only means toward peace. Which, of course, is illogical thinking and the product of a mind that has been tampered with by television and general dumbness, but that is another story altogether.
The people of the United States have forgotten who the enemy is, even though that enemy has never changed. I have seen too many fights between people who fight for the same side to go any longer without mentioning what is obviously wrong.
It should seem obvious that soldiers who come home from war to their family, friends and fellow countrymen need not be denigrated by war protestors whose masturbatory lust for bitching creates an irreparable breach of trust between two segments of society who are fighting for the same goddamn thing. Alternatively, war protestors ought not to be looked down upon by soldiers or anyone else for protesting a war that has taken, in the very least, hundreds of thousands of lives, especially when it has been a decidedly fraudulent and irresponsible war from the beginning.
There is not a population or even a group of people whose values ring of a general hatred for freedom or the principles of free people. There is not a creature I can imagine living on the planet that does not want to be free, and, moreover, would elect to attack those who are free simply for that reason alone. This, however, is the depth of the argument that the American people’s true enemy has made to stimulate an atmosphere of mistrust and hatred between people whose only enemy, whose only opposition toward their collective goal of peace and happiness, is their own government.
For every occasion where a smart-ass punk has belittled an American soldier there has been a fat, white man in a fat, white house chuckling away at his immunity from accountability. Every time an underprivileged kid walks into a military recruitment office, that same fat white man adds another pawn to his disposable collection of Human Beings. A soldier fights for the men and women at his side, a brotherhood, stuck in the Military Industrial Complex, who only want peace and to see their brothers in arms get on a plane destined for home. A protester acts according to his humane passion and desire for peace, but habitually misplaces the responsibility for war on people obligated by way of their unfortunate personal circumstances to become units in a machine they never really understood. All of these people fight for the same cause, but none of these people fight the right enemy.
I hear a lot of rhetoric about how a divided America cannot stand. In the sense in which most people use that phrase it is untrue. An undivided America does not imply an undivided confidence in the government, as that phrase is often meant to imply. An America divided is an America that for even a moment decides to let its guard down against its government, which has never shown anything but a tendency toward the type of tyranny and oppression that people like to think they are here to avoid.
We all seek peace both in our minds and in our environment. So let us discontinue this mindless criticism of each other and look toward the real cause for all of this tragedy, because while the people fret over vague notions of patriotism and dissent, those who deserve to be on the receiving end of that passionate frustration are sitting fat at cocktail parties on yachts well out of sight. We the people are all in this together and if we do not recognize that . . . well, then we all deserve the grim judgments that time will most certainly make.
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