There is a moment when a voice can have great impact and power, but all to often it is the voice of hate, the voices of the malcontents, the extremist in all senses, and the intolerant these today hold the greatest pull. When did it become okay to go back to the ways of the old where views of destruction of others because you don't like their views, religion, skin color, sex, or sexual choice was okay. The 1950s showed us the ways of oppression give rise to opposition and revolution. There is a reason why old ways of thinking died out. They had no place in a modern and civilized society.
It is the 21st century and all people have a right to speak their mind, but to speak a view that has a constructive point not one of ignorance, hate, greed, fear, or negativity. Most have seen what both sides of the coin can do to people when a statement is negative or destructive. History is replete with people who have driven a negative message forward. What ever happened to civil discourse and communication? We have a right to our beliefs and views, we don't have the right to force them on others. History has shown what happens to peoples who are oppressed but others or one. Many a war has been fought over ideas of few or just one. The crusades, WW I, WW II, civil wars, 9/11, Gulf wars, Roman wars, so on and so forth. These illustrate only a few of many conflicts brought about by ideology and words.
If you are wonder why this is being written, simple: in the current public discourse there have been levied lots of negativity towards the President, those currently running for the presidency, people in the public eye using their positions to advocate negativity, and the fight over every little issue to the point people are name calling like children, these are the everyday news topics. Given the U.S. focus on these things a bigger picture is being overlooked, the rest of the world sees these events, but the average U.S. citizen does not.
People are dying in Syria daily, as so in the Sudan, in places we never hear of. But if Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul eat a muffin on the news and talk bad about each other we know about it. Their scawbles and infighting take away from the world at large. A picture of a world reaching a boiling point is never really felt by Americans, yet petrol prices rise and the President is to blame. Iran's nuclear ambitions and threats towards western countries has a lot to do with this. The culture of the past isn't the path to the future, one of learning how to share this one planet is the only way forward. All the negativity in the world has distracted us from what people can do to change things for the better.
At the current pace, things are only going to get worse until the old guard people wake up to what the world wants and needs. The wealthy are going to only get wealthier, religious dogma is only going to get more strained, and the population is going to continue to grow, if you want a better world, get involved helping others! It is the 21st century but we still have 19th century problems. Equality and Peace are needed more now than ever. War, poverty, hate, intolerance, greed, fear are archaic and help no-one. Change tomorrow by changing today, lead by example, not by telling others what to do.
It is the 21st century and all people have a right to speak their mind, but to speak a view that has a constructive point not one of ignorance, hate, greed, fear, or negativity. Most have seen what both sides of the coin can do to people when a statement is negative or destructive. History is replete with people who have driven a negative message forward. What ever happened to civil discourse and communication? We have a right to our beliefs and views, we don't have the right to force them on others. History has shown what happens to peoples who are oppressed but others or one. Many a war has been fought over ideas of few or just one. The crusades, WW I, WW II, civil wars, 9/11, Gulf wars, Roman wars, so on and so forth. These illustrate only a few of many conflicts brought about by ideology and words.
If you are wonder why this is being written, simple: in the current public discourse there have been levied lots of negativity towards the President, those currently running for the presidency, people in the public eye using their positions to advocate negativity, and the fight over every little issue to the point people are name calling like children, these are the everyday news topics. Given the U.S. focus on these things a bigger picture is being overlooked, the rest of the world sees these events, but the average U.S. citizen does not.
People are dying in Syria daily, as so in the Sudan, in places we never hear of. But if Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul eat a muffin on the news and talk bad about each other we know about it. Their scawbles and infighting take away from the world at large. A picture of a world reaching a boiling point is never really felt by Americans, yet petrol prices rise and the President is to blame. Iran's nuclear ambitions and threats towards western countries has a lot to do with this. The culture of the past isn't the path to the future, one of learning how to share this one planet is the only way forward. All the negativity in the world has distracted us from what people can do to change things for the better.
At the current pace, things are only going to get worse until the old guard people wake up to what the world wants and needs. The wealthy are going to only get wealthier, religious dogma is only going to get more strained, and the population is going to continue to grow, if you want a better world, get involved helping others! It is the 21st century but we still have 19th century problems. Equality and Peace are needed more now than ever. War, poverty, hate, intolerance, greed, fear are archaic and help no-one. Change tomorrow by changing today, lead by example, not by telling others what to do.
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