Violence leads to violence. Since the terrorist attacks in New York we have had to witness countless other atrocities. Innocent life wasted in the pursuit of male dominance. You bomb us and we bomb you. After a while you become numb to the violence. Like a shell shocked first world war soldier, you can amble along without having to really think about where you are or what you are doing. Sports, entertainment, mood enhancing drugs and then cut to commercial. Working too hard for too little and then watching your country terrorize in the name of peace.
On September 11th 2001 we were all American. Today, war after cynical oil protecting war the America I grew up loving is an insincere soundbite. Militarized police shooting at the civilian population who are all being digitally monitors for the slightest sign of resistance. When will we say enough is enough? When will we get mad as hell at ourselves for allowing a society to form with power crazed psychopaths as our elected leaders.
This form of democracy doesn’t work. We in the West are just as guilty of terrorism as our brothers in the east. Is it darkest just before the dawn or are we about to go extinct. Remember the Cuban missile crisis? Well the stage is set for a second running of that particular episode. Russia is now squarely being confronted by the West.
Stop protecting your national interests Russia or we will cripple your economy.
Cripple our economy West and we will cut off your gas.
Shut off our gas and we will freeze your financial system.
Freeze our financial system and there will be an “accident” on your public transport system as well as a large scale internet hacking epidemic.
If we have any suspicious “accidents” on our public transport system and our companies and governments computer systems have been attacked, your Chechen enemies will find a huge stock pile of new weapons.
If our Chechen enemies find new weapons, then we will . . .
Down the rabbit hole we spin. War has been a feature of human history. It doesn’t look likely that we can stop this part of our nature, which means it is just a matter of time before some hot heads start to play chicken again. 3000 people died in New York in 2001, millions more have died since. I wish I could say the world has learnt from terrorism something useful, but in truth it has only learnt bitterness and barbarity. I am currently looking at farms in New Zealand. When world war three starts I’m moving there to fish and farm the war away. You are all, as always welcome to join me!
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