Tuesday, October 11, 2005
A U.S. Marine is killed by an IED in Ramadi, a teacher is pulled out of his classroom and shot to death in front of his students, in Samarra, a suicide bomb kills a woman and child in Basra. 1,400 Maya Indians killed in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Stan, 20, 000 to 30,000 dead in Asia. After a while these deaths could make a person depressed. Hopefully for us many of these people will be faceless.
After all we can't afford be too empathetic, we have job security, inflation woes, high gas prices and so many other issues to keep us up at night.
Some of us are so self involved we don't even know or don't care about the disastrous events around us , some of us are close to becoming too empathetic for their own good, and then there are some of us are overloaded with information overload.
Our brains can allow just so much bad news into our brains and there's Mazlov's hierarchy of needs to deal with when our basic human needs are at risk. So one would ask where is our government, aren't they supposed to be there for us?
Unfortunately Bush's ineptitude has compounded what nature has already given us and Mother Nature has given us a plate-full of opportunities.
To be fair no one could have offset the damage a hurricane or what a pandemic can wreak on our country, the president may talk to his god but he is not god. But this President and Republican-led Congress have dared nature, ignored and even downplayed probable events at the behest of his base and big business.
Bush filled key government positions, responsible for the well-being of our country with the party-loyal instead of using the best people for the job.
He chose to fill the coffers of oil companies, drug companies, energy conglomerates, credit card companies, and other industries over assuming the mantle of "world leading advocate of human rights" while working with all nations to secure the world using effective negotiations rather than enacting preemptive attacks based on the psychotic episodes of a few malignant megalomaniac chicken-hawk neo cons. The result has been and will become even more disastrous in the next few years for the United States.
Maybe we should move the statue of liberty with that famous plaque which states "Give us your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free" to Canada's Thunder Bay. I can almost imagine future American immigrants arriving thru Ontario with their only possessions on their backs as they are processed in masse.
After all we can't afford be too empathetic, we have job security, inflation woes, high gas prices and so many other issues to keep us up at night.
Some of us are so self involved we don't even know or don't care about the disastrous events around us , some of us are close to becoming too empathetic for their own good, and then there are some of us are overloaded with information overload.
Our brains can allow just so much bad news into our brains and there's Mazlov's hierarchy of needs to deal with when our basic human needs are at risk. So one would ask where is our government, aren't they supposed to be there for us?
Unfortunately Bush's ineptitude has compounded what nature has already given us and Mother Nature has given us a plate-full of opportunities.
To be fair no one could have offset the damage a hurricane or what a pandemic can wreak on our country, the president may talk to his god but he is not god. But this President and Republican-led Congress have dared nature, ignored and even downplayed probable events at the behest of his base and big business.
Bush filled key government positions, responsible for the well-being of our country with the party-loyal instead of using the best people for the job.
He chose to fill the coffers of oil companies, drug companies, energy conglomerates, credit card companies, and other industries over assuming the mantle of "world leading advocate of human rights" while working with all nations to secure the world using effective negotiations rather than enacting preemptive attacks based on the psychotic episodes of a few malignant megalomaniac chicken-hawk neo cons. The result has been and will become even more disastrous in the next few years for the United States.
Maybe we should move the statue of liberty with that famous plaque which states "Give us your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free" to Canada's Thunder Bay. I can almost imagine future American immigrants arriving thru Ontario with their only possessions on their backs as they are processed in masse.
# posted by Thomas @ 12:03 AM 
