“Bombing for peace is like f***ing for virginity.” –A bumper
sticker I once saw
I recently left a bit of a rambling message on my Senator’s
voicemail about why I don’t think it’s a good idea to bomb Syria (or any other
country for that matter! Bombing, in my opinion, is not good.) I’m pretty sure
I got my point across, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the nuttiest Colorado
constituent (not yet anyway, maybe in ten to fifteen years…) My point being: war
is not a good business plan. Even though it creates more war, the losses far
outweigh the gain. I’m sick of fear and ignorance and greed running the show
in this country. I voted for Obama because I want to see a change, and by that
I don’t mean change the country we’re bombing for supposedly housing weapons of
destruction. I mean, talk about Idiocracy* in action, it’s like smacking your
kid to teach him that hitting is wrong.
Why can’t we send our young men and women to the other side
of the world to train civilians on how to operate renewable energy systems, instead
of sending them over to kill parents right in front of their own children? Then
those communities could house and maintain their own independent energy sources,
and send us .01 cent per kilowatt as well as some good buju each month. Our reputation
would restore itself and terrorist cells would dry up the world round. Plus, we’d
be that much closer to having a world flag, which personally, I would really
like to see happen in my lifetime.
Hasn’t it been long enough, how many generations will it
take for us to learn that the business of war is dead? Literally. Death is the
end result, and all it creates is more hatred and fear and death. Apparently
our representatives are too sheltered from the real world to comprehend this. I
propose we wall off Washington DC and let them fend for themselves until they
shut up and listen. Seriously, no trucks in or out. How long until they sell
their bodies for fresh vegetables? Your guess is as good as mine, but what a great
premise for a reality show…
Did you see the footage of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) rambling
on and on for 21 hours? What a waste of oxygen; no way is he one of the sharpest
tools in the shed. (I used to think Ivy League educated meant well read, but now
I question if they do read.) Are we deliberately trying to breed ourselves out
of common sense and courtesy, or is it just an unfortunate wrong turn on the
path of humanity? Do we really want to be a planet of 50-hour-a-week-workers
who only have access to bottled water and Monsanto® food, who wear aluminum
under our arms and wire under our breasts, who can only be legally recognized
as ‘married’ if we’re capable of breeding, and whose collective hobby it is to
consume useless crap packaged in plastic faster than Captain Kirk can unzip?
Really?
It’s too depressing. We’re losing basic kindness and
generosity like a Band-Aid® in the bath— we won’t even notice until we’re out. Maybe
it’s because by the time a species becomes technologically advanced enough to
do good universally, all the compassion has been bred out. In order to travel
through space and discover new worlds we have to evolve to a certain level of
uncaring, selfish behavior; kind of like the way we feel about insects when
they splatter on the windshield. Eventually it won’t even occur to us to go out
of our way to help one another. Or, maybe that’s only true for the ones actually
doing the traveling through time and space. Hopefully there are redneck aliens back
on their home planets right now, drinking homemade moonsshine and playing some kind
of gravity-deficient horseshoes.
And if not, we could be the first to lead by example. We’ll
just send our Congress men and women instead of our military— Ooh, I gotta go.
I have another call to make…
*Idiocracy is a very funny film about the ‘dumbing down’ of
society
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