A letter or something.
Feb. 22nd, 2011 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
i_idDear world.
There are a lot of things to be afraid of right now. The entire Middle East is boiling, like ant-hives poured one into another, and it's spreading at an alarming rate. Iran has warships in the Suez Canal. As of today, the Somali pirates are holding at least 33 ships and 712 hostages. Last year, they collected ransoms for more than a thousand, the country's only income. TSA, the folk responsible for keeping our airways safe, are being shown up as frauds and thieves every day. Gas prices in the US will hit four dollars a gallon again this summer. Unemployment in the US is recovering, but the dollar is not. It is now a lie to call our President the leader of the free world. That same President has made no move to repeal the abominable Patriot Act. A state in the Union is about to pass a revision to a law that would, in effect, make it legal to kill a doctor who performs abortions. A huge number of American citizens don't have the right to marry who they love, adopt children with that loved one, or hold them as they die. A celebrity who tortured dogs to death and another who raped a young woman are being paid thousands of times more than any teacher just to catch a ball.
It is so hard, right now, to be only one person when you ache to rouse those around you, all of them, to these outrages.
I meant to finish this post with the beautiful things, the things that make this world still worth living in, but it felt like an insult. I can't point to one good, beautiful thing and say, 'This. This weighs against rape or murder or corruption in the karmic balance of the world.' But they add up. They do not erase the bad. But they are the reasons why we have to fight the bad. "To take arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing end them," to take one of those good, beautiful things out of context.
So here are a few of those beautiful things after all.
Signed,
One voice.
There are a lot of things to be afraid of right now. The entire Middle East is boiling, like ant-hives poured one into another, and it's spreading at an alarming rate. Iran has warships in the Suez Canal. As of today, the Somali pirates are holding at least 33 ships and 712 hostages. Last year, they collected ransoms for more than a thousand, the country's only income. TSA, the folk responsible for keeping our airways safe, are being shown up as frauds and thieves every day. Gas prices in the US will hit four dollars a gallon again this summer. Unemployment in the US is recovering, but the dollar is not. It is now a lie to call our President the leader of the free world. That same President has made no move to repeal the abominable Patriot Act. A state in the Union is about to pass a revision to a law that would, in effect, make it legal to kill a doctor who performs abortions. A huge number of American citizens don't have the right to marry who they love, adopt children with that loved one, or hold them as they die. A celebrity who tortured dogs to death and another who raped a young woman are being paid thousands of times more than any teacher just to catch a ball.
It is so hard, right now, to be only one person when you ache to rouse those around you, all of them, to these outrages.
I meant to finish this post with the beautiful things, the things that make this world still worth living in, but it felt like an insult. I can't point to one good, beautiful thing and say, 'This. This weighs against rape or murder or corruption in the karmic balance of the world.' But they add up. They do not erase the bad. But they are the reasons why we have to fight the bad. "To take arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing end them," to take one of those good, beautiful things out of context.
Signed,
One voice.
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Date: 2011-02-22 09:42 am (UTC)Thank you for the pretty pictures. <3
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Date: 2011-02-22 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-22 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-22 08:26 pm (UTC)The Black Eyed Peas video there is one of my favorite things to ever come public performance. I love me a good flash mob.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-23 01:00 am (UTC)Kalalau Valley. Get stoked.
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Date: 2011-02-22 11:15 pm (UTC)Or at least, disagree entirely.
When it comes down to it, the images and movies above are a testament to what happens when people band together for the group, not the individual, or the forces of nature are seen as beauty in itself. Sometimes, we have to have faith (odd coming from me) that there is still good in the world, that there are still people willing to fight the good fight for others, not just themselves, and that hope for a better world with less apathy is still alive somewhere. Sometimes, the thought of these people, and the hope that we are some of these people, is all that keeps me going.
When the darkness stares you in the eyes, sometimes all you can do is pull out your tommy gun and shout at the top of your lungs, "The stars are wrong, Asshole!"