Monday, March 24, 2008
into blog land
I'm constantly worrying about money, work and the economy lately. when did that happen? 5 years on and we're still involved in two wars we can't win. And we have 4000 dead troops who've "laid the foundations for freedom" blah blah blah for what? So that this war doesn't have to be fought on American soil? Great, we can continue to ruin the lives of those in distant lands to maintain our gluttonous lifestyles here. I'm torn between joy that we here in America are waking up to the fact that our neo-fascist empire of greed, in the name of "democracy", is nearing its end and panic at the prospects for our future. I think Orwell had it right when he said in 1938 (of the Spanish Civil war) that "It is nonsense to talk of opposing Fascism by bourgeois "democracy". Bourgeois "democracy" is only another name for capitalism, and so is Fascism; to fight against Fascism on behalf of "democracy" is to fight against one form of capitalism on behalf of a second which is liable to turn into the first at any moment." I suppose it is the realization of all generations but I still can't help but feel that the world I've naively treasured for so long and dreamed of raising kids in is dead...
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yeah..I hear ya...but don't let it distract you unduly from living your life. Don't throw the baby (proverbial or otherwise) out with the bath water yet. :-)
Our country has had blood on its hands many times over and the wheels of time move slowly and in cycles. When I was coming into adulthood I had some of the same realizations and panic stricken months and for very good reasons. We had endured a horrendous oil crisis. Colleges had to close for almost 2 months one winter b/c of both a natural gas and oil shortage. We regularly waited in gas lines for an hour or more and could only buy gas on the odd or even day (whichever matched our license plate #). We were messing with Iran even then and when I was in grad school we had 54 hostages (diplomats not military people) held in Iran for 444 days! A peace treaty was signed by Sadat (Egypt) and Begin (Israel), only to be followed by the assassination of Sadat. The Cold War was very hot and we messed a lot with Central America too. We spent billions developing a Star Wars Shield to prevent the Russians from ever being able to send missiles over the north pole...it never worked....but we outspent the USSR into its demise....at least for a couple of decades. The list goes on & on.
Then we dared to have a baby...an adorable little girl. When she was about 8 months old she was held up before hundreds of people, by Dr Helen Caldicott at a Nuclear Disarmament talk and Caldicott said "Will Jessica live to be a mother?" It made the headlines in several major papers, along with a huge picture of her cute little face looking out, wide-eyed at all those people. As you know, the answer to the question has not yet arrived... but... it well could. We have survived these 2 plus decades and likely will for several more...and maybe much, much longer.
Stay tuned in but don't let the news control your life. For the most part..it is the same old news..... over and over and over.
I say, to hell with the news and projections and bring on them babies, lol!!!
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