Please respond in the negative that you cannot see what I see. You cannot understand me any more than I can understand you. This is the fundamental truth behind the socialist lie, which is that it is possible for people to be united around a common ideal. It takes a whole lot of brainwashing to make people come to terms with the fact that they can be interconnected with others. Yet, the media has done a super fantastic job of making millions upon millions of people believe that if someone’s “carbon footprint” is excessive then it will affect somebody clear across the world. If this were the case then as a result of World War II Germany’s carbon footprint would be so big that it would take centuries for them to pay it all off.
The birth of the modern world did not come without its fair share of pain. People seem to forget the inconvenient truth that it really took decades for World War II to finally come to a head. It took years and years of European political hand wringing and pseudo-philosophical intellectualism to finally get down to business and identify what was bugging them for all those centuries in which they somehow had to live up to the false doctrine that they were the anointed ones of the world who were carrying the burden of civilization. The shit finally hit the fan, and Europeans couldn’t hold onto their facade any longer. It all boiled down to one big knock down drag out of a war in which millions of innocent men, women, and children were literally gassed, burned, shot, hung, tortured, bombed, and finally nuked.
I ask my friends on the Left often how they can justify their attitudes about human commonalities, when all along if one were to disagree with these otherwise fine folks in any manner then it evokes an argument in which only one side seems to reign prominently. You see, I happen to be an open-minded individual. Each day when I wake up I remind myself of the fact that I am but mere mortal, flesh and blood, and my limitations are obvious. I have to struggle to earn a living and live just like everyone else. I am afraid of disease and death, but I find myself more afraid that my work on earth may come up short before my time comes to depart. Insofar as this fearsome truth is omniscient in my psyche, I am humbled and forgiving to each and every person on this overcrowded, confusing planet.
I forgive the Israelis and the Palestinians, because they do not understand what life is really about. I pity them because they have been cast in roles in which practically any other person under the same conditions would succumb to. They live a hard life full of danger and excitement, fear and love, and extreme patriotism and dissent while at the same internally saddened by the way in which they are being forced to live. I know this for a fact, because I lived it close up and personal.
Ladies and gentlemen of the world, please try to see what I see without thinking that I am trying to bend your opinions to my point of view. I know this cannot be achieved, yet all I am asking is that people try to understand that the march of history has swept people into a cauldron of very complex competing human emotions. There are so many ways in which to describe the modern world, however, I try to take a stab at it ever so often by lamenting worlds that have gone by the wayside. From personal friends to family members and notable figures in history, some of whom I have met personally, the loss of human life is something which is poignant and regrettable yet at the same time rich and bountiful. Living one’s life means learning from people who have lived it.
Many mistakes were made by a generation of people who are now dying away. The embarrassment and shame they must have felt in having erred to such a degree that the entire world exploded into full out war must be too much to bear. For once I wish people could understand that by provoking people who understand this up close and personal is something that is met with an extreme reaction. Consider the fact also that the ones who also made mistakes that cost millions of lives are also the ones who are trying desperately to make up for it. Yes, I am referring to Jews. They fucked up badly by believing that they were Europeans and that the angst created by this lie finally came to a head.
There is enough shame to go around for generations, and the hurt, the pain, and the embarrassment of a gargantuan failure such as what occurred on 65 measly years ago is still being felt today. It is unmistakably present in practically everything in the world today that the effect of this colossal failure called World War Two is still reverberating. The United States took upon itself the unthinkable by confronting fascism. This cost lives and treasure, and the results were not guaranteed. The entire world as we know it today hung in the balance. Imagine what would have happened if nuclear physicists had sided with Hitler and not left and come to the U.S. instead. Many of them were Jews, and I like to point to this fact as perhaps the one turning point that tipped the balance of power in the world and created what we have today.
My friends on the Left do not like to hear these things because tools of war are all the same to them. However, the nuclear option should only be used as a defensive mechanism, and the fact that some countries seek nuclear weapons and have publicly ascribed to a policy of using them offensively is something that should send shivers down everyone’s spine. Nobody likes to hear these things, because nobody really knows what is going to happen. The world is a big mess right now, and it has been ever since the end of World War Two. We are still trying to get used to the fact that Europe has changed radically since then. They failed miserably at fascism and then Europeans took off in the exact opposite direction by being too open and thus ushering in the phenomenon we see today, which is a different kind of European fascism expressed by the anger of Islamic fundamentalists.
But wait a second, because there is obviously more to this story. I was raised in the secular world, and as you may well have noted I have little or no patience with religion even though I studied in a seminary for many years. I believe that the best way to become successful is by becoming more open-minded and not less. Taking stock of where ones life is in relation to history is to me just as important if not more than the egotistical human desire to make history happen. I am a mere participant upon the stage of life, and I see life for what it is. I am on a journey to a destination that is elusive and can only be described by historians, thinkers, philosophers, psychologists, economists, and even the fool who lives down the street from me who always seems to be talking to himself whenever I see him wandering around.
Can you see what I see, when I see myself as deeply humbled by the entire experience. I am but a small part of a greater human experience, and all I ask is that I am given the tools necessary to understand it sufficiently so that I can cause the least disturbance as possible. I want to go with the flow and not raise a ruckus. I want to bask in the glory of being diminutive and unsuspecting rather than be a superstar and be recognized for my achievements. Because I believe this life is not any more about me, than I would find it acceptable that someone else believes their viewpoint is more valid than another. I did not create these things we have here any more than anyone who fires a weapon can lay claim to the history that eventually led to that weapon being placed into their hands. It is fate, destiny and history which drives us mortals to the great altar of fame and shame. Our own higher spirit is ironically responsible for our own misgivings and feelings of inadequacy.
Come up to my level is all I ask. Come up here with me where the sun shines and the wind blows and the fields silently whisper sweet songs of those who walked upon it and are now at peace inside its mysterious life-giving goo. Respect one another for the frailties that we all share and the desire we all have to see what others see. All you have to do is open your eyes and your heart and soul and tell the truth about how limited we are by being distant and separated by silence. We share a common history in our march toward the unknown. It is alright to say these things, because even the greatest among us do not know what tomorrow will bring. All the great plans of all the powerful fall by the wayside when you simply consider that by silencing others you are showing your own penchant for the silence of lies. It is shameful that many people have not learned the lessons of 65 years ago, which revolve around people who in their seemingly endless desire to make history have forgotten the lessons from it.
Surely there has to be some smart man or woman out there who can see the ridiculous ignorance of our world today and call it what it is, which is a shameful attempt to recreate the conditions that existed during the catastrophe in Europe in order to relive this experience. It is as though the media has literally bought into this pathetic notion by glorifying violence, which just proves how little respect they have for the awful weight of history that lies upon the shoulders of us all today. We are the inheritors of the modern world, and it is high time that we accepted this responsibility seriously and stop trying to make history. History has already been made, and this is the world we live in. It is a far different world than what existed a short while ago, and people should be thanking their lucky stars that there are forces in the world which are guided quite clearly by the lessons that were learned as a result. People can try to resist the march of history by rewriting it or bending it ever so gingerly to their point of view, but in the end only those who understand where they come from and are open to the possibilities that await them will be there to accept their place in it all when the dust finally settles.
-TDN
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