As I look upon the spectrum of issues we are facing as a people I keep asking myself the same question...why? For instance, if you listen to the Presidential debates you are hearing about our over-dependence on foreign oil and need for alternative sources of energy. It sounds wonderful if you stay on the surface but to me it raises a question of why are we discussing this now and not 15 years ago when electric car technologies were available and killed by big business? Also seems a bit hypocritical of us to talk about being dependent on oil when we ourselves gave the power to nations that now have a fun time controlling prices. Why does CDC keep prancing around the issue of vaccine safety and it's link to autism when it occurs in 1 out of 150 children? At what point does it stop....1 out of 75? Why does Merck give money to study how to sell its cervical cancer vaccine to lower income families instead of studying the effects of its vaccines on girls that die after taking it?
How long does it take for us to stop shoving things under the rug? The trend is everywhere and to me it is unbelievable. We live in a country that seems to be run by Big Business that is only concerned with profit. Are we really that immature or greedy as a people to accept what they are feeding us (pun intended)? We only seem to change out of necessity when the amount of information is so overbearing that we cannot ignore it anymore. Why does it take so long? We know the truth, we always do and yet we choose to ignore it until it is no longer convenient.
When I read others that say people as a race haven't evolved past a child I now understand what they are referring to. However this child has nuclear weapons and lagging morals and that, at least to me, is very worrisome.
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Remember how you mentioned that you find yourself being lazy occasionally, and I agreed that we all are that way? Well, I think the same answer applies here. We are lazy, and our cares are often limited to things that directly impacts us, and at this very moment. You know that Russian proverb "until a lightling strikes, a man won't cross himself"? We place things out of our mind until they become reality, and then we either give up or start fighting.
There is no perfect political or social system out there. Greed drives a lot in this world. We want to have. And then we want to have more. But there is also selfless giving in the world, which is quite a nice contrast. We need darkness to know light, right? A choice is not a choice is you cannot choose between a easy "wrong" and difficult "right".
That is true Masha. If we weren't fortunate enough to have so much polarity it could have been difficult to tell where one stands. Even so, I see why many masters just leave us be...there is another Russian expression you remember..."let the child play with whatever they want, as long as they do not cry...."
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