Washblog

Many, perhaps most people have pretty stretchy capacity for denial  so that no amount of evidence will convince them of the brutality of war if they don't want to be convinced.  They'll just rebel against  having "depressing" information thrust at them.  Many individuals -- a good number who find their way to power -- have an extremely developed ability to understand how bad something is and to do it anyway because they want to -- or have convinced themselves that some higher goal exists.  Plus, thoroughgoingly bad people get power too, people who get off on causing havoc and extreme pain.  

So to an extent I think we need to focus on the brutality of war -- to the extent that we can't lose sight of it, shouldn't sugar coat it.

But to move away from our extremely warlike state, I think it is structural change we need.  We have allowed the military industrial complex to take over our economy -- and thus our media/communications and political process.  Power and money have become centralized in the hands of special interests who profit from war.  As long as our economy runs on blood and oil, we will have war.

Throw the current bad guys out, fine -- new bad ones pop up.   Badness is in human nature.

So is goodness.

It's the structure that has to change.  As we increase and strengthen the social and economic conditions that tend to allow goodness to express itself rather than to promote and reward bad behavior we will, voila, see more good behavior and less bad.

So I see this in almost a behavioral, mechanistic way.  But I don't think we get there by mechanistic behavior.  We get there by rising above, by enough individuals consciously choosing to act with love, creativity, caring for other people and for the earth -- and allowing fury as well to guide.  Not vengeance, not meanness, not corruptness.  Good old fury that we have in abundance.

We are losing our representative government and we are submitting ourselves to rule by private multinational corporations.  Hence, war.

by noemie maxwell on Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 03:55:56 PM PST

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I watched too much CNN etc yesterday, and the Liar / Thief - In - Chief was doing a masterful job of laying the groundwork for extending the Iraq debacle over to Syria.

Where are the Dem messages hammering these liars? Do the DC Dems  know that some tepid press releases are NOT message to fight these lying bastards, OR

are too many of them too freaking corrupt to know how to act like an opposition party?

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 08:37:59 AM PST

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