Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (I)

Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (I) - Welcome back to my blog! - Some days I don't even want to watch the local, let alone the global news anymore with all that negativity that's been infiltrating our lives. However, and this is in fact a great if not the greatest downfall at all, by looking away or trying to block out reality any other way, those energies will not just disappear like that. Lately it seems, more and more folks are expressing their utter disdain and therefore their growing reluctance as far as keeping an eye on how (far) various scenarios are developing. Nothing easier than burying one's head in the sand and just turning into passive yes- men mainly for the sake of avoiding getting and staying in touch with reality. I think, it is our duty as civilians and citizens to keep ourselves updated as to what's going on in general and not just in our proximity. Believe me, what matters on a grand scale, globally this is, matters just as much on a micro level. The good thing about any catastrophic long- term events -which are clearly man- made, I should emphasize here- usually all run their natural course from the very beginning on and take a while until they finally present themselves. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day either! On the downside though, it unfortunately takes just as long if not longer to return to square one, and to fully eradicate its evil roots respectively. Let me demonstrate this phenomenon with the help of a few rather simple and yet entirely different examples. - What's been brewing worldwide presently in terms of social, religious, military and political upheavals is an absolute shame and a far cry from its ideal state and thus needs to be addressed sooner than later. Let's be honest, even though history has always been an excellent teacher as far as instructing us what not to do as to stop war disasters from recurring over and over again, we still could care less. Instead "headstrong" for the wrongest and most evil reasons of all, we, the collective, pardon, accept and even promote the epitome of negative and nihilistic trends such as for instance the process of political regroupings or also the self- chosen freedom of selling a whole nation's soul to the devil by deliberately and conveniently trying to defeat bad with much worse. The problem in both cases, as they are currently unfolding in two different corners of the world, is rooted in our collective denial to look into the nature of such significantly risky developments which by the way are being boldly and audaciously carried out right under our noses, entirely uninhibitedly and most disrespectfully. This massive indifference is working ever the more like the kind of blindfold which is actually asked of us and thus welcome so that certain projects and processes are kept running smoothly under the radar up to the point of final execution. We must not look away ever! The bad guys only get away with such atrocities because overall we still remain too passive. This and no other way the worst dictators and tyrants the world has ever seen have had an easy go at manipulating systems, societies and at times even entire nations. Regardless of generally being called the bearer of bad news or Ms Negative in person, I do see it as my call to point out any major grievance and abuse and to wake people up from their pseudo slumber. You see, the greatest crime is not any of those bad souls' wicked and sick ideas and actions per se but the masses' non- reaction to oppose exactly those and ultimately nip them in the bud. I believe, Albert Einstein put it in different words, but the meaning is pretty much the same. How can any truce seriously and honestly be bedded on the attempt to win over a country which up to this point has been fought tooth and nails but is now miraculously declared fit enough to be crowned an ally? It's fairly easy to predict the outcome of such an endeavor. Whatever notion of truce this is supposed to represent, it can't and won't work. Why not? Well, quite simply because the intentions behind it are anything but good! Why the heck are we so reluctant to learning from history? Are we really that ignorant or are we rather made like that so we can after all be controlled much more easily? No doubt, it's high time that we finally started paying attention, rose to our feet and clearly and determinedly said: "No thank you, we're no longer willing to swallow the bait of living in a world where we are made believe that things happen the way they allegedly do!"