sound scary?it is. lets try and find a cure

THE VIRUS

It spread like wildfire. Every country in the world was suffering horrendously. News reports began coming in fast and furious, but curiously, reports began to come in sporadically. An omen!!! Everyone was so caught up in what was happening right around them that many stopped listening to the news. They avoided each other in self defence. Horror and death were everywhere.
Can you feel it? Can you see it?
We pat ourselves on the backs all the time for how civilized we’ve become, how for the most part, we have stopped killings in our own backyards. We have influenced other countries in this respect as well.
Politicians get together for this event, this civilization and give us speeches on this discussion, and why? They want to congratulate each other on how well their society is running.
How many died in the last major conflict, WW2.? 50,000,000 to 61,000,000 people and more. My, how civilized.
Vietnam! our count is said to have been 50,000 dead, plus wounded, and how about the Vietnamese, will there ever be an accurate count on their fatalities.
Add to that the Kymer Rouge and the killings fields [etc.] and another estimated 2,000,000 plus more people dead. It may have cost Afghanistan and Iraq a million.
We keep killing at great length even as we say “no more war”. If anyone kept a running total as to the number of ‘people’ killed in conflicts over the last hundred years and could feel their pain, even a sprinkling, we would be sick for a week, and thinking and talking about it for at least a month……….maybe.
If we were reading a book with those numbers being killed, we would think it an exaggeration. Its just a story, right? Well, the ‘story’ I’m talking about is our world, today, even now, right now.
War? No, we don’t need wars, how many are killed every year in North America alone, through accident, suicide, murder, death by misadventure. Add to that the other ‘continents’ and we are talking horrendous numbers. War is still number one for immediate deaths, however, it is not alone.
Do we learn from it? Are we changing our ways of living, our consciousness? Not bloody likely, we want our lives left alone, but please change the rest of the world. Isn’t it awful what that monster is doing in Ruanda, in Kenya, anywhere but here.
Add to that, those who disappear in the so-called sane countries, killed for disagreeing with the powers that rule. We don’t seem to recognize something as wrong unless we can see beyond where we are. ‘Normal’ is what we come to accept day by day.
We can complain about death somewhere else, write letters, even hold discussion groups about all the problems the people face. We can bring in speakers from that land to back up what is being said.
Well, someone says, it’s just life. We can’t control what people do all the time, they must have self-expression. That they do, but………………….. what if…………..
A strange place to leave that thought, I guess, but is it, really? Did even one person think about how change could really come about? Do we simply throw up our hands, lost and helpless in the tide of mankind.
Let’s not leave out natural disasters. How many lives do they claim per year. What else? Well, depending on where the disaster strikes, there is lots more. The people of the world send clothing, food, money, anything they can think of to help the desperate people. Does the dying end there? Not by a d@#$ sight.
Greed, dollars, power, come into play now and food and clothing are redirected to blackmarketeers, while those in immediate power, pocket their share and then plead for more aid for those poor and dying people.
There are always good people involved as well, however, who brave injury and death to help the helpless. They are to be praised and make no mistake. But, why is there so much needless death? No death is good, but death for another man’s greed is a curse that spreads ever deeper into every society. It is unacceptable.
Politicians lead us off, telling us how much they are willing to do, how much they want people to get in there and help, while they spread a little butter on the mix [slippery, you see]. They do as little as possible to satisfy you and me, and just enough to be able to brag, saying that we were in there. We did our part.
Now we have the do-gooders. They have their place, and no mistake there either, but don’t let them get the bit in their teeth, don’t leave them to their own devices. Almost inevitably, money begins to be filtered into a growing organization there to help. Help who? Doesn’t that hurt any relief effort?
Now we get each of us and who is willing to give what to help, and how. We can give generously on our own, but it has to flow through other hands and its amazing how sticky that money becomes, as it shrinks and shrinks as it makes its way to where it’s needed.
We’ve given our share! we can rest our consciences. We did a good deed. You did? Always, there is the curse of ‘however’.
The’however’ is always going to be there. Nothing can ever make it perfect. This might be true, but should we just let it drop there?
It is such a disease, profit, it is slippery and sneaky. It might begin as a good thing but somewhere in its journey, it becomes evil. Not the money, but the evil in those who touch and see money as an end all, be all. Not a thought about how it came to be there or what it will actually do.
We can go into any area of life and find good and bad, one slipping into the other’s category. What can we do? Can we do anything?
Do we not want our children’s children to have a world that they can live in? Indeed do we not want it now, for ourselves and for our own children as well.
The ad-men have it down pat, how to put out anything out to us to have us buy whatever it might be that they are selling, from items of luxury, necessities too, but don’t forget the shadow salesmen that we don’t see, those who sell us on making our goods in a starving country for starving wages. Is that is really helping anyone other than themselves.
They are the salesmen that we don’t see, don’t hear, but who we listen to, through others. It is they who make us see something a, good thing, and on goes the list, until the true evil raises its head. Some call them thinktanks, but are they? Do they even still have their own conscience.
These salesmen are selling us, first, that lost jobs, increased profits in a narrower margin, are good things, with no steady jobs for the young, but that’s ok, things will get better. How?
Our lives are based on air, thin air. Companies and countries are so very far in debt that it is impossible to say who is where.
They used to call what they are doing ‘creative accounting’. People went to jail for doing it. Now its their [our] very existence that they are playing with. The buck must stop somewhere. It simply must if man is have have a long distance ‘life-affair’.
What is all this rambling you say? Rambling, eh? Don’t I wish. Look at us, we live to die and if we don’t kill each other enough by ourselves, we are made to think we need to start a war.
By the way, it has always been. War has always been a means of birth control. The thinking being if if we take out a generation of young men we slow the overall population growth.
Wrong. Man simply keeps growing so fast that growth always exceeds loss. If mankind ever takes a serious look at peace and how to achieve it, we must have at least two or three generations, or more that don’t see war, don’t see needless death and suffering, who don’t see the leaders around them with their armpits just showing in the slime of graft. Then and only then do we stand a chance of seeing that living peace that will make man shine, will give him the possibility to achieve every dream ever dreamt.
Do you remember the title? Do you see it now? It’s closing in on your future and future generations that depend on your imput. We are the virus. We are the worldwide catastrophe.
Yes, god help us, however you may see him, because we, we are that most horrible affliction on the planet. Mankind is but a deadly virus, killing and uprooting everything it touches. It destroys everything in its path, even destroying the means to feed ourselves or them. Yes, they cannot see beyond that ‘green mountain’, the dollar.
We must one day create a vaccine against the evil, and let man, ‘the good’, come to the forefront and lead us into a new day. There is not even room for personal competition, one on one. That is a means to the evil we mention. That bespeaks of winners and losers, and not of brothers. Other forms of competition must be found, if it can be allowed to remain. We must be seen as a whole unit, not as so many pieces of a puzzle.
Hopefully it won’t be a worldwide catastrophe that separates man from man, without communication, with the need for food paramount in his thoughts. How? If the planet itself gets into the act it can create enough terror to kill off billions of people, literally, through earthquake, flood, volcano, disease, and the whole gamut of things that might decimate a world population. If we can’t reach others, we can’t make war, and if we are lucky, when man does meet man the lessons of their past will be taken to heart and the planet grow as one.
If we read our history books, they speak of how the good guys won, us. From that point on, everything, even the life and death of millions is but a passing note. Forget that and lets get on with making our world beautiful. Lets rebuild our societies and all that the past has cost us.
They are such good thoughts, but we must always remember the bones upon which we are walking, the bones which lead us to this place that we can grow from, which form the foundations for our thoughts, let alone anything else.