This has been a rough few weeks and it has had nothing to do with Lupus. The problem with me is I’m too sensitive. The news of the young man’s beheading in the Middle East, the potential for another beheading, and rumors of others being shot and killed in the desert have all done me in spiritually and emotionally. Added to this was the killing of the young man in Missouri, the killing of another young man in Missouri, and the already chaotic state of the world and I was thrown to the floor.
It’s sad where we are now. Divide and conquer has run amok. We have men versus women, the educated versus the non-educated, conservative versus liberal, pro-guns versus no guns, Democrat versus Republican, straight versus gay, religions versus other religions; we are a mess of hatred, hostility, anger and grief. Around the world, hundreds, if not thousands, are killed daily. I can feel the souls rising. Yes, I’m too sensitive.
The militarization of police departments, states, and countries has proven we love our weapons of mass destruction and we no longer wish to use our brains to think through anything or turn our heads in the opposite of fear to talk to anyone. No, fear rules these days and we have become a violent society, nation and world.
Jean Paul Sartre made an observation that has stuck with me for many years. He saw conflict in human affairs as inevitable. Once a revolution establishes itself it fails to recognize new problems, becomes institutionalized, and calls anyone who dares to question it a traitor of the revolution. Because of that, Sartre saw the need for a sort of perpetual revolt. I don’t know, there is human conflict everywhere in the world and one revolt is often replaced with another in short order.
In the U.S., a country known for rioting in the streets in their breakaway from British rule, has become so institutionalized that anyone daring to question or bring up those “new problems” is automatically put down, imprisoned, or just murdered for being different.
I don’t know and I’m rambling here but it has truly been a trying few weeks and yes, perhaps I’m too sensitive. To see a young man beheaded because he chose to become a photojournalist is disconcerting. He was just doing his job somewhere and became a political pawn for someone.
I have decided to stop watching the news as it is much too depressing. I am done with slanted news that favors one side or the other. It didn’t used to be that way. I’m done with thousands being killed in Gaza, or Syria or Iraq. I’m done with overzealous police who refer to human beings as animals as if the abyss they’ve gazed long into has not also gazed into them. I’m tired of folks focusing on problems without offering one hint of a solution, which was something I was raised to never do. I am done with hatred and division that only furthers the chasm between us all. Until we stop reacting or relishing our tiny little divided clusters and look at those who are yanking our chains, we are destined to fail and fall.
As soon as I decompress, I’ll write again but for now, I’m over it!
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