It's way too early in the morning for me. Mom is still asleep in Tristan's room. I'm still asleep at the keyboard.
Just sitting here pondering the thought that I know I'm going to get slammed for, but I can't help thinking it...How can we, as a society, get up, shower, get dressed, have breakfast, go to work, have lunch, leave work, go shopping, eat dinner, do errands, go to the movies, read, watch tv, go to bed, dream, etc... How can we, basically, live a normal (?) life while the day to day happenings of the world seem to pass us by?
How come I can't read or listen to the news (Pacifica, Democracy Now, thank you very much) without feeling like I've been punched in the stomach? How come I can sit here and *think* about what it might feel like to be in "so and so's shoes? To lose a child in a war? To have my husband stolen from me? To have my family ripped away from me? To have my home, my world destroyed? How do we, as a whole, go about our daily lives as if nothing is going on while people around us are in so much pain and suffering?
It's just that the world seems entirely different, or maybe it's just me. When I listen to the old radio shows it seems *everyone* was involved in the war. They were taught to save, recycle, reuse, etc...They KNEW that a war was going on. But here in 2006 we're encouraged to "spend and shop" to help. To help whom? Haliburton? It just seems people are in a whirlwind rush around me at times, completely oblivious to what is happening in the world.
Slow down.
Pay attention.
If you're not upset, you're not paying attention.
Just sitting here pondering the thought that I know I'm going to get slammed for, but I can't help thinking it...How can we, as a society, get up, shower, get dressed, have breakfast, go to work, have lunch, leave work, go shopping, eat dinner, do errands, go to the movies, read, watch tv, go to bed, dream, etc... How can we, basically, live a normal (?) life while the day to day happenings of the world seem to pass us by?
How come I can't read or listen to the news (Pacifica, Democracy Now, thank you very much) without feeling like I've been punched in the stomach? How come I can sit here and *think* about what it might feel like to be in "so and so's shoes? To lose a child in a war? To have my husband stolen from me? To have my family ripped away from me? To have my home, my world destroyed? How do we, as a whole, go about our daily lives as if nothing is going on while people around us are in so much pain and suffering?
It's just that the world seems entirely different, or maybe it's just me. When I listen to the old radio shows it seems *everyone* was involved in the war. They were taught to save, recycle, reuse, etc...They KNEW that a war was going on. But here in 2006 we're encouraged to "spend and shop" to help. To help whom? Haliburton? It just seems people are in a whirlwind rush around me at times, completely oblivious to what is happening in the world.
Slow down.
Pay attention.
If you're not upset, you're not paying attention.
Comments
Keep the "little people" down: keep 'em busy...keep 'em overworked...keep 'em tired...keep 'em in debt...keep 'em watching the latest and "greatest" thing on TV...keep 'em interested in anything and everything except what's happening around them.
Amazing with all of the "new" technology that we "little people" work more then we've ever worked as a society...-K