I periodically share your faith with the human spirit, but I disagree about past historical abberations of the human nature being an ongoing plight, due of course to the global implications of policy we're in the middle of.
The earth is suffering, and in kind the sky is falling. Hitler didn't have the capacity to impregnate the fat cells of Narwhales with dioxins nor the reindeer with ploychlorinated biphenols. Armenian atrocities were religious however, and the parallel of the far right's impositions on science and democratic freedoms far exceed the geographical implications of regional conflicts prior to the last 6 years.
The U.S. is still, with some rapidly declining potentcy, the global power. WE administer to the world in ways that benefit fiscally the purses of those in power elsewhere, and create a growing poverty of class in the process. Our habits, our needs, and our might dictate in kind the thoughts and policies and actions of all nations, especially the ones with resources - the ones we need at the cheapest price possible, if we're willing to pay at all.
In that manner, I correlate Bush with Hitler, not to add the cronyism pervasive in his appointments, of loyal servants over and especailly above those with skill and experience. We now realize this causes unecessary death, yet we yell about a fraction of those deaths when it harbingers of a war we can secure more resources from.
I spend a few hours each day going between the horrors of reality, the potential of futures, and the acknowledgement that many good people still exist - especially those who contribute data that indicates we're in a royal mess environmentally and resist the censor of this administration to silence their reports. It does do that you know.
I'm thankful you've let me voice some rather loud opinion, I rattle the sword now and then. I also want to let you know I'm a pretty good joe, always willing to help a person in distress if possible. If Oxman were to climb to extract me up that tree however, he would have a fight. A deadly one. I protect my family and my world vehemently, not for pay, but for life.
Maxxim only pays, period. And they also appear to not be able to do that for much longer. Was it all worth it?
We'll see.
