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War is not a possibility
June 16,2016
I must consider myself warned when I hear so much threatening trivial talk in the media about war. I use the word trivial because our foreign enemies are essentially imaginary, and war is good for no one except a few profiteers at the top. All people need about the same living conditions.
Our civilization, our planet and even our existence face an array of real threats from highly developed, interlocking and unsustainable practices. Our money is all debt and less secure than any time in memory, and the problem has been extended to most of the globe. Our electric grid is utterly unprepared for solar activity in time of rapidly decreasing geomagnetic protection. Our biotic menaces have outpaced our antibiotics. Our planetary atmosphere and oceans are reacting badly to the disturbances we have carelessly caused. My little list is the barest beginning of our legacy of surprises.
If we are to survive, we absolutely must grow up and stop this silly war game habit. We have a long way to become civilized enough to expect to survive and must mature past our manipulative monkey business and work for what the people need to get by. In the context I am trying to express, teasing Russia and China with provocative military maneuvers, and with talk of them, is the most insanely self-destructive course our “leaders” could pursue. We know in our hearts that we have learned how to talk and to compromise, and we know that we don’t have real external enemies to face. We must not let our “elected” heads of state play these games with our lives. First, we must remember that we are not sheep or slaves, despite rumors to the contrary. We know we cannot withstand levels of corruption we are now sustaining.
LARRY SHERK
Springfield
Although I agree that the military industrial complex may be the most evil entity on the planet, and we have many issues to tackle to make our world a better place to live, isolationism and pacifism are not the solutions. The Russians and the Chinese are every bit as "provocative" as we are, if not worse. As are Al-Qaida, ISIS, etc. Our enemies are far from imaginary, and yes, we have done a lot to create some of them. But to think that we do not have to defend ourselves is pie-in-the-sky lunacy. I don't pretend to have all the answers, even if I did I doubt anyone would listen. Our greedy, carnal nature is the problem, and that is not going away anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteOverall, our nature seems to be that of fearful, grasping, violent monkeys.
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