Homily for the Weekend
Friends and Others of DU:
I am sorry that the news is this bad, that every update is worse than the last.
Our brother Hotler wins. "I have no hope, I see no future," is his summary phrase. He is right.
If there's a way out of this we will find it, if we look, and try, and believe. If there isn't, it was nice knowing you, and I hope we can keep it all going together into the great Unknown. This is a time when we are all going to need friends, real friends, to get by with a little help from our friends, until the present unpleasantness resolves, one way or the other.
If the unpleasantness were due to the needs of the impoverished, dispossessed and disenfranchised, that would be one thing. That would be easily fixable, and common decency would insist upon us fixing it. We know how to do that, we've done it before, and we have structures to facilitate it.
But THIS unpleasantness is due to the mentally ill: the people who have more than enough and are still not satisfied. They need to take MORE, and MORE, and even if they had it all, they STILL wouldn't be satisfied, until every "rival" for even a grain of sand on this planet is DEAD.
This is the crisis of our time. NEVER has Greed ever been this unleashed and rampant upon the globe. And it is global. If we in this nation cannot control our Greedy, why would we expect any OTHER nation to try? Ours started this...at least, in this country, although I expect they did it globally, even China, thanks to Nixon and the BFEE ( Bush Family Evil Empire).
And if we cannot control the GREEDY, relieve them of their booty, make reparations to their victims, and cure their mental illness, there will be shooting war, not just in the Middle East, not just in Africa, but EVERYWHERE.
Until the last greedy son-of-a-bitch is dead. And, it may come to that.
I seriously doubt that Hitler could have taken over, were it not for the rapacious war reparations forced upon Germany by the Allies of WWI, which destroyed Germany's economy and blighted at least one and probably 3 generations. I don't think the German national psyche was that warped, until the reparations and Hitler did his Fuhrer thing.
What can we do, when faced with an entire class of Hitlers, prodded into action by the rapacious of our time?
I don't know. But I think we will be finding out.
Here endeth the sermon.
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