My role in the blogosphere has felt more and more like an iconoclast -- or to go back to that old metaphor the little child calling out the nakedness of the emperor to the hordes of deniers and minimizers making it crazymaking for the child as messenger to have something so seemingly obvious be surreally pushed back at. WTF????
Sadly, even here there are many who prefer to bury their heads in the sand rather than accept that our world is breaking around us. They will believe that to their death, and it will be a sorry sight.
And this, too:
I can't believe that my fellow Boomers (I was an activist during the Vietnam years like so many) and so many young people are myopically bobbling their heads at the coverage of the imperial bloodbaths under both Bush and Obama and not insanely angry at the waste of human lives using our tax dollars making us accessories to mass murder, to genocides!!!
One of the worst parts of our perpetual war is that young people today have grown up with it. We don't think about the war because to us, it really doesn't exist! It's not in the media, it's not anywhere, except for a few sites online. When you grow up with it, it becomes normal. Heck, I'm young enough I literally can't remember a time when we weren't at war in Afghanistan or Iraq. To grow up with that...it makes you think about it in an entirely different way. And it feels incredibly hopeless because of the massive amount of power arrayed against us. This is why I strongly support a draft for everyone, no exceptions except for disabilities and for conscientious objectors--if people are forced to fight and die rather than having the lower classes volunteer to die for the elite, we'd be pretty damn pissed. We're not right now.
Great post, and welcome to DU. Glad to have you here.
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