Been a While

I've not felt like writing in quite a while. I've plenty to say, just not the ambition to put it down. I look at the news all around me and wonder what in the world is happening to my country, to our world. My life at the moment basically sucks, but how can I be upset or even let myself feel bad when I see the hell going on around us.

Faces of children in pain, hunger, and fear. Faces from my neighborhood full of fear from guns and death. Faces from places across this planet who live in utter destruction from acts of nature, or acts of man.

Everywhere humans doing to other humans unspeakable acts of violence. Torture in the name of my country. Murder and terrorism in the name of religion. Beatings, imprisonment, "capitol punshiment", verbal abuse, and the denial of basic rights of those who love members of the same sex. Women whose spirits are being crushed under the weight of "customs" imposed upon them.

Workers all over the world. Living from paycheck to paycheck, or from day to day. Some workers chained in locked rooms to work unbearable hours. Other workers being laid off or forced into taking massive pay cuts because "they make too much". Workers being told "The foreign workers can live on 3 dollars a day, you should be able to". Hey just don't worry that the cost of living here makes it impossible. Living in a Walmart world where "made in the cheapest place possible" labels are fashionable.

Airplane companies now are in the private security business. Why not hire a former soldier from Peru to go to Iraq and pay them 35 dollars a day, when the company gets 300 dollars a day from the government for their position. It's only fair the company should make the profit on my taxes, and not the actual person doing the work. Companies and government work together to create "Clear Skies" and "Healty Forests" initiatives, just rape with a different package name.

No longer do those in government power pretend they're not favoring the wealthy. It's out in the open, but they use words and ideas to confuse and manipulate the mind. The population of our country is being abused, and like those abused, we are believing irrational things. We are told "If we don't give these tax cuts to the rich it will be a tax increase on us all." So a tax increase is when we don't give a tax cut to those who don't need it? How does that compute?

With all this how can I mire in self pity? I want to scream out and say how crappy my life is, but my voice becomes hollow and the sound indescript as the surrounding world closes in.

My the Spirit of the Universe help us all.

Mudger