Going Backwards

I have always been in a state of disbelief over the affairs of the world. Where most people can go through life in their own square world where happiness is defined merely by their content existence, I have found myself feeling troubled and filled with despair for as long as I can recall. So I carry on, write poetry, stay well informed, live in fear.

I feel it is safe to say the world is going backwards, and in doing so is headed for disaster. Does this make me a pessimist? Hardly, I am a realist, and more importantly, my eyes are wide open. What I see is a world caving in, whether from a political aspect, ecological aspect or religious aspect.

We are destroying our environment at an alarming rate. The heat, the volitile storms, is all an effect of too many gases being trapped in the atmosphere thereby heating otherwise cool oceans, which is causing all the inclement weather. The government has known about this for years, been shown graphs and charts but since cleaning up the world means putting life before profit, needless to say things have only gotten worse.

It seems while we sit in relative comfort the rest of the world is reaching a peak of fighting. Long forgotten is the reason why, in the year and time of technology, with all the advancement we have made, where countries should be working together to create a world where all people live healthy, happy, with freedom to choose, instead we alienate countries thereby pushing things into a past best forgotten. It is easy to judge warring nations, remember most are born into it. Don’t most people just want to live their lives, happy and content? Yet here we are in 2006, wars erupting everywhere, innocent lives lost, terrorists defying the very governments that have also fallen into ruin. Woman are second-class citizens, the goddess is dying.

Everything is a profit machine, even Buddhism. If you cannot have honest faith, you can purchase some enlightenment, along with a free tee shirt thrown in.

This is likely why I ABHOR celebrity gossip and fashion TV and the Hollywood mentality that has taken over North America. It reeks of surrealism and decadence. There is nothing wrong with earning money and wanting a chunk of the better life, but when what you have, what you have amassed in a material way, what you wear and how close you are to perfect on some scale concocted by man, is the essence of a society, then things must change.

We are a society of judgmental crybabies, workaholics and money machines, lamenting over losing ten pounds and what fashionable trinket we simply must have, while all around us our world is awash in absolute confusion.

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comments:

I just read Viki's submission on Shebytches.com and all I could do was stop, breathe, and whisper "Wow" to myself.
 
She has great talent. You know you've got something when you can say so much with each sentence. There's a great deal of depth there.
 
I feel really meditative right now...From simply reading her post.
 
I'm literally in awe and it's so cool!
 
I love when that happens!! ;)
 
L.