If there was a God, would He not be looking down on us today in dismay. Would He be pleased with the state we are in? Would He be pleased with the way we are destroying this beautiful world? Can He be pleased with how casually we kill ourselves and each other?
Is it a contest to see if we can kill more with cars than with guns? Can we allow stupid bigotry to fuel the rise of fascist bullies? Why do we promote racist and religious and tribal hatreds?
And at the same time, we promote base stupidity. Take the Brits. These people who live in those beautiful little isles are so misled that they want to hang themselves economically. They are misdirecting their anger and fears. They are willing to destroy their own economy in their bitterness. If they leave the European Union, they might as well throw their British Pounds into the English Channel. They will be worthless. No other country can subscribe to such ignorance.
And if we send one more foolish Children’s Crusade to the Middle East, we deserve the horrendous costs. If you think you should visit Allah’s House or back yard, you have to wait until you are invited. To visit uninvited is to earn retribution. You cannot practice Jingoism and make peace. You cannot follow false leaders.
Nor should we peace-loving(?) Canadians sell weapons of war against their own people to the Saudi despots. Why do Canadians promote pipelines to export carbon pollution to the rest of the world? Is this not hypocrisy?
We ridicule Americans for their corrupt politics but does that make us any better? Like Americans, we kill ourselves with the sludge in our blood from Big Macs and fries. You can never look down on those you emulate.
And we should stop worrying about the One Per Cent. It is the 99 per cent who need the attention, the nurturing, the worry, as they are the ones who inherit what is left of this poor planet.
We must treat this world as the jewel that it is. It belongs to us and to future generations—our progeny. We must look after this planet and those whose lives intertwine with ours. For ours is but a brief span of a lifetime and we should treat this earth and fellow travellers with the respect they deserve.
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Copyright 2016 © Peter Lowry
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