Trump gives his darling Putin a twirl. Other world authoritarian tyrants wait in the wings, tarting themselves up, waiting for Trump to give them the once around.
What has the world come to when the world’s superpower cosies up to the most despicable tyrants on the planet! If this was the thirties Trump would be courting Hitler, Franco and Mussolini!!
This really is a fascist take-over!
Shame
How can I not feel the shame
When I see what we have done –
Bigotry and injustice,
Concentration camps,
Ku Klux Klan,
Secret police,
Where cruelty is considered bliss?
How can I not feel the shame,
Women forced to wear the hijab,
Children brainwashed,
Black men shot for being black,
Animals ripped to pieces
Protestors coshed?
How can I not feel the shame,
Native American Indians,
Religious wars,
Gay pride
And Peterloo?
Bear baiting,
Dog fights,
Lynchings,
Lying political propaganda,
In a world run for the few?
Opher – 4.12.2022
Can you feel shame for a species? I don’t know. But I do.
I feel ashamed at our intolerance, our belligerence, our love of inflicting pain. I feel ashamed of our arrogance and bigotry. I feel ashamed at how violent and stupid we are.
Anyone who is different is persecuted. People are forced to conform. Religion is foisted on the innocent. Brainwashing is rampant.
It’s not about skin colour; we all do it. No race is immune.
There are flaws in our genes.
We love cruelty and pain and enjoy watching it, inflicting it and make an entertainment out of agony, fear and death.
In our tribal stupidity, our lust for power, our insatiable greed, we kill, maim and destroy.
We’re busy destroying our own future and creating misery.
No wonder I feel the shame.
I am human.
I really don’t want to be associated with my species.
We’re far too stupid and cruel.
Echoes of History
Echoes of history
Louder every day,
Leaving hungry children
Shivering in the dark.
Civilisation crumbles
Into choking dust;
Houses into rubble.
Missiles hit their mark.
Security an illusion
While tyrants rule.
Ruining the future;
Leaving choices stark.
Opher – 15.3.2021
It is incredibly disturbing to see Putin directing the destruction of a country.
Why do we do it?
We live in sophisticated cities with people working and playing, worrying about fashion and whether they can afford a better house or a new car. Every normal. Lives filled with trivia – the school run, the cinema, a trip out, planning holidays, shopping and cooking. Ordinary.
We live in countries where there are debates as to whether we can afford to repair potholes inroads or replace cladding on skyscrapers, to pay teachers and nurses a living wage, yet we can but multimillion pound tanks, missiles and aircraft.
On the whim of a despot we can turn whole cities into piles of rubble.
How many trillions wasted?
If a building collapses, trapping hundreds, it is a global catastrophe. Yet we can callously deliberately kill hundreds of thousands of women and children.
Civilisation is just a short holiday from carnage. Slaughter and destruction is the norm.
We are nasty vicious little apes who pretend.
We are witnessing the reality of our nature. Humans are not very nice.
This really spells it out!
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The things we do to animals. Future generations will look back at us as horrific barbarians!!
