I have come to the subtle realization recently that the clock is moving forward despite everyone's best intentions.
Why does the Christian right in the U.S. Love war? Why are Putin and Medvedev playing this very deadly game? The two scariest things in the world right now are the fact that a full 1/3 of the American population believe a myth.
Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-religion, I'm anti-untruth epically when that lie is used to control your sex life and tell you that you will never be good enough. We deserve better than that kind of insecurity. The tenants of all faiths have the golden rule in some shape or form.
I cannot but help be reminded after watching Jesus Camp that indoctrination happens everywhere all the time, as a matter of fact. In western societies we often forget to indoctrinate our kids with the best of ourselves, i mean I figure that's the goal of having kids in the first place right?
Yet right below us in the bible belt there are people teaching right wing evangelists that it's ok to kill for god. I have tons of issues with that; for starters it's a hypocracy.
I've said it many times; the central hypocracy of the christian faith is that if you talk to god it's called prayer, if god talks to you it's called schitzophrenia.
Our legal system is designed to have mercy on the mentally ill as we cannot understand what it's like to be told by a deity to kill somone; thus we have Jail and Mental Institutions.
Islam was once great, the highest achievement of Islam in the old middle east was the translataion of Greek and Roman works into the Vernacular (Saxxon, Norman...) This was done becasue these cities had massive libraries; like byzantium and constantinople.
The interesteing side effect of this was the renicence; where church and state began to seperate and people began to really think for themselfs. The age of reason rozenkrantz called it but again I'm pretty sure god spoke to him.
At one point we wared over religion, now it's over raw resources; religious diffrences simply make it ok.
We are hypocrites, we critisize the russians for pissing on georgia for rights to build pipelines to europe so they can bully the europeans some more. Yet we say nothing to the american take over of Iraq. WMD's or none Hussien was between a rock and a hard place; stating he had none but making the world think he had some to prevent the Iranians from invading; or the kurds from rioting & looting.
On to my next question, the war of Ideology. We exist in a world polarized by confilict; it's one of the most peaceful times in human history. Africa is still in turmoil with no forseeable end; we have the U.K. with BP in nigeria; China in Rawanda for the exact same reason, human rights violations all over the globe and for what?
Russian ideoligy has changed; it was and now isin't pro west let's get paid, since they've gotten paid we demonize them for helping the really poor parts of break away states; Now that they have economic power they are a worrysome foe for all the break away states that have little to no economic stability.
Chinese ideology is the epitome of a fascist capitolist nation with the paradigm of socialisam, they don't care about thier neibours so much but they do care about natural resources.
The americans? well we all know that they care about oil more than human rights, but the judeo christian war on Islam is just getting started, and with 100 million christians trained not to question authority this is a scary place to be.
So who's going to wake up and tell these people that they can make these consumeables at less than cost? Oil can be made with sunlight and life; phytoplankton and algae specifically strains of Bracthaterius Brauni; I mean I love T Boons Pickens; however I plan to help make his investments obsolete, they are a good interim solution, but not a complete one.
The middle powers on this globe are pro west and most of them are NATO members. What scares me is the russian forign policy of pre-emptive attacks that may include nuclear weapons on forign states that don't fall in line.
I once heard a Lecture by a forign minister under Gorbechev; Sergey Zaitsev, he stated: Canada is lucky as they have only one neibour and you both get along, Russia has 24 and they hate eachother.
So These break away states are becomming pro west and pro nato out of self preservation more than anything else. As NATO member states if russia tries to help them with any bandits or peace keeping missions they risk global conflict. If Poland, the Ukraine Georga and others become NATO members will nato be able to meet an all out industrialized war with russia?
The clock has ticked one second closer to midnight and have we even noticed? A man once stated he had the ultimate soltuion. Look where that got us? Now the ideological debate is over, it's been 50 odd years of cold war and the Impearial historic views of russia have changed yet the current administration wishes to re-kindle that era; or somthing akin to it.
The problem as Ronald Wright framed it is that we have developed fire powerful enough kill us all. Oppenhimers brainchild threatens us all so now what?
The only awnser is self sufficency on a national scale. Canada is right next to russia, we have two neibours and they aren't getting along, and we don't have the forces to defend ourselfs, espically against a reborn superpower.
So what now?
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