Reply #65: "Collective nervous breakdown." [View All]

[KitSileya]

How aptly put. Sometimes I get so angry I almost think it would be better if those of us in the industrialized world were taught how good we have it by simply losing what we have. It certainly would be better for Mother Earth. Most likely, it would shake people out of their imagined fears and give them some real ones to worry about. However, that would be the cause of so many deaths - mostly poor people - but it wouldn't hit those who deserve it.

We will have to do this differently. We will have to use more diverse tactics and long-range planning.
We must find new avenues for non-violent change to occur. Like Al Gore says, we are losing touch with
reason. Old standards of trust and integrity are a joke.
That's an interesting avenue of thought - any which way you look at it, something must be done, and after 6 years of Bush tyranny, a lot of people should have had their eyes opened. I guess part of the frustration comes from the idea that 'to whom much is given, much shall be required', and who has been given more democracy and freedom than the Americans? We expect more from you. At the same time, Kris Kristoffersen was right, 'freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose', and does Iraq, and possibly Iran, have to wait until Americans are so on the rocks that they literally have nothing left to lose before they are willing to rebel? How many will die before that? To what extent will Iraq be uninhabitable before that happens?

The US is the world's greatest military power, and I believe that if the rest of the world tries to force the US to back down, there is a chance we'll truly end up with WWIII. I guess the rest of the world would rather the Americans paid the price for Bush with their own lives, if I can be so callous.