Charlie Chaplin once said how he ...believed in mans humanity towards man more than in his inhumanity. While his words ring wistfully, all evidence points to the contrary. From every angle, it looks like too many are willing to steal for no reason, kill for even less and ignore the least fortunate as if they were road kill. Intolerance is gaining ground while civility is trailing miserably. Too many police are killing young people for the sole reason of being Black and outdoors. They now raid homes with a SWAT team in tow and whatever damage is done by virtue of perhaps raiding the WRONG house, is irrelevant. These are not rich people after all, and dont have access to those $1000.00 an hour suits. Aside from the damage being done by police, by privatization of prisons, by the right-wings complete disdain for any color other than green (and I dont mean solar energy), What is systematically being done -or undone - by police, in tandem with corporations and with a willing congress that continues to empower everyone but the people, will have repercussions for the decades to come, just like our actions in the Middle East will have for decades to come. Ignoring the spending of monies on our infrastructure, ignoring education for all, ignoring what is obviously a physical, psychological and monetary abuse of one particular minority, ignoring the poor and homeless will only equal further and more catastrophic disasters in the years to come. When a country has seemingly endless deep pockets for a military complex that exceeds three or four other countries and yet has no appetite for first fixing internal...EVERYTHING, the chickens do come home to roost eventually and that scenario is bound to be...UGLY...VERY, VERY UGLY. Sorry if I sound like a Gloomy Gus, but Im only seeing negative future impact from implemented policies these past almost four decades. I have no problem watching capitalism crumble any more than having seen communism collapse. NEITHER SYSTEM WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE. Ive mentioned before one of my favorite movies, The Formula not because of its brilliant cast but instead of its brilliant dialogue. One character that only appears briefly, a Major Neely, says to his recently captured Nazi general, ...the wars over, General. From now on, were going to be one big, happy corporation; no more secrets, no more enemies.... Later on in the movie, when an aide comes to tell Marlon Brandos character what OPEC (the Arabs, et al), Brando says, ...we are the Arabs. This movie was made in 1980. Shall we discuss how much worse this scenario has gotten since and why I respectfully must disagree with the GREAT Charlie Chaplin?
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:01:41 +0000
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