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Be Very, Very Scared - They Disguise As Human Beings

The latest news headline reads - "Terrorists Use Toilets!". They take a shit and piss, can you believe it? Human beings with distorted world views, sick ambitions, acting in a manner most don't agree with, actually act in many ways like "normal" human beings. What a surprise! This news is earth shattering. Well, not quite, but these kind of reports, repeated over and over again, will scare your average Joanna into helplessness and irrational thought, which can ultimately lead to only one reaction - where's my saviour? Toni, Jesus, Georgie, Joseph, Mohamed or Adolph, they are just names that enable future human beings to mark time periods of organized hatred. It will always be up to those humans of the future to decide, "will we learn from past mistakes, or just continue acting dumb, stupid, and blind?" Or more accurately and less polemically formulated - should we be progressive or conservative?

What is going on in journalists minds, when they publish stories such as the one spreading military propaganda, which after "the world is a different one" pseudo-event seems to have become the norm. People, get it into your heads, just because two buildings were maliciously blown up, changed nothing about this planet. Every day buildings are being blown up, not every single one maliciously, but sufficiently to make cry oneself into hopelessness. And every day thousands of people die unwillingly. Most are murdered, others ravaged by disease, and some because their end just came. What has changed, is solemnly the willingness of people, folks like you and me, to accept hatred as a basis of human interaction. We decide how to interact with each other. Which in term will decide how they will treat us. Yes there are assholes, but how often do you act inappropriately? How often have you been greedy? How often were you willing to bend the truth to your benefit? When faced in utter honesty, these kind of question hurt, don't they?

Forget curiosity, forget inquiry, forget knowledge, especially be ignorant of meaningful facts, all that counts is blind hatred. This is the message of mainstream organized journalism. And we are the ones paying for their salaries! We the consumers of news media. If we don't consume, there will be no income, and the news media will go bust. Hmm, in a perfect world maybe. We can already see the results of some of the market having withdrawn their funds - more porn, more violence, more animal instinct feeding. There goes the magic of free markets out of the window. So what can we do? Think, reason, communicate!

We may all be kids at heart, but the mature rational mind has a substantial chance discovering the Boogie Man within our own thoughts. None of us is perfect, and with this in mind, we can manage and semi-control our emotional reactions, directing them towards constructive ideas and endeavours. Petitioning a government to act in revenge, is not constructive. Asking them to change their ways is. Courts are not perfect, and they will never be, but they are our only chance to ever come close to the ideal we like to believe having already achieved - civilization.