TL;DR: I get mad about people wishing the best for those fighting ebola, and then rant about what really makes me mad about this world, trying to actually vent for once instead of bottling it up all the time. Its kinda funny that a lot of people werent that worried about helping out those in africa -before-, honestly, but when there was a slight scare of their plight coming to hurt us, suddenly were getting a whole lot of people saying how we need to help those in need, and how much we need to give respect for those helping in those areas. Honestly, if your respect is nothing more than a oh, huh when you pick up your Wall Street Journal and read that theres an outbreak of some disease somewhere else and that some folk from your country have gone to help, you probably shouldnt post about how they deserve so much respect and praise now that youre actually afraid of what theyve been fighting for a year now. Wikipedia: It began in Guinea in December 2013 and then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. A small outbreak of nineteen cases occurred in Nigeria, and one case occurred in Senegal. Nineteen cases. Nineteen, and thats a year ago. And youre sitting there shitting yourself when we have 3? Really? As of 5 days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a total of 13,567 suspected cases and 4,960 deaths of ebola in africa since 2013. But hey, we get 3, and NOW those people fighting deserve our respect and praise. Wait, before I even get angry about that, how many deaths have been the direct result of ebola in america? One. One person. Which would be Patrick Sawyer of Minnesota, who I at least had enough respect to learn their name, see their image, look into a piece of their life through what I could research. And now were worried. When we know nothing about the 4,960 people who have already died horribly. We dont look into their names, their lives, their stories. No, well just get worried when it happens close to us, which I feel is the out-of-site-out-of-mind mentality that causes a lot of problems in this world. Dont wait until it hits you. Stand up. Learn about the world. You want equality? Make it so. You want the world to be free? Then dont sit idly aside when others are not and you are. Dont just flaunt your freedom like a flag, wishing luck to those who are impoverished and poor. Dont sit in your chair and start to tell others that they should have chairs only when something threatens to take yours. That is not freedom. That is attachment. That is a lack of morality and the acceptance of injustice. That is the face of ignorance, staring us down and making us incapable of making every life have infinite possibilities. You vote for who you want to change things when you can move and change things yourself, and if enough of you believe in it, you can do more than the single man you decide to elect to tell other people how to do it. I wont stand above, wishing luck to those who are suffering. I do not WISH luck when I have some I can give. That is not the way of someone who is truly human. Someone who cares, believes, and is truly understanding of the idea of tolerance. Maybe we have become blind to WHY men fight to the death to try to stop us. Who wish for our downfall. Who want us to suffer, to be afraid, and to terrorize us. They want this because we seek so much and give so little. We claim perfectly good places to live, we board them up, we guard them, we advertise them for money, we -flaunt- them, then do nothing with them when there are those who need them, when there are those who do not have that simple thing we take for granted. We put the food on shelves when they could be in the hungry, tagging them with how much time and effort you have to sacrifice in order to earn them when hired, and then we hire no one. Is that human? No. It is a mockery of how simplistic things could be. There are the hungry? Feed them. There are the homeless? House them. There are the sick? Do you not give the best expert treatment money can buy to those who play the games you call sports? And you leave the suffering even in your own towns and cities to fend for themselves? Im depressed because there is this whole pale blue dot that we live on. That tiny little place, that mote of dust, suspended on a sunbeam, that infinitesimally small place we share, and we have set up a society where selfishness is an ideology, a goal, and contractual agreement. Myself, I can barely stand in this society we have built. I can barely take any steps each day towards what I feel is a future any different from today. Some might find that appealing because, as humans, we fear change. But as of this point, I feel Im struggling, and I know how many even in my own life are capable of standing on their own, and have become paralyzed by their comfort. Charity has become an odd luxury for the rich. And that, honestly, terrifies me. For it says a lot about a country when the majority of them are unable to help others for fear of their own well-being, and those who are above that line wont because of fear of becoming the first, and the third group only does so to look good while keeping their own weekly income in a range that is far beyond what a decent 80% expect to see in their lifetimes. But hey, they just say Im crazy.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:47:09 +0000
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