Isn't it about time we asked...?
Isn’t it about time we asked:
1. Why religions which teach acceptance, tolerance and love, achieve little more than racial and social divisiveness and hatred?
2. Why there is still poverty, famine and starvation in a world that is capable of producing all that it needs for everyone?
3. Why over a million people have been killed in a war in Iraq that was allegedly about that country producing Weapons of Mass Destruction when there were none?
4. Why war is waged against Iraq in the cause of the war against terror when the Bin Ladens were an enemy of Saddam Hussein, but one-time friends of the Bush family?
5. Why in the war against Iraq, the allied forces went in and protected the Ministry of Oil and its oil wells and left that country’s cultural and historical heritage to looters?
6. Why we support infinite economic expansion that is impossible to sustain and makes us into economic slaves fraught with anxiety in its service?
7. Why we support authoritarian social and political structures that have failed us time and time again, rather than choosing social, personal and psychological freedom, and exercising responsibility for the world we live in?
8. Why ownership, being successful and making money is preferable to loving, personal relationships, being creative and building real quality of life?
9. Why Britons and Americans on average now spend around a working day or month or more, making friends on MySpace and Facebook rather than making friends in real life? (How many of your friends on social networks would give up a day to help you with a real problem in your life?)
10. Why we support commodity capitalism that turns everyone into “things” in support of its values of selfishness and greed and undermines the spirit of trust and cooperative human development?
11. What lasting benefit America has achieved for the world in any war it has waged since 1945? (Which wars have been won and for what?)
12. What the hell we are doing?
So what are we doing and thinking? It feels like time for change. Now who is going to be the first to tell me that I’m naïve and idealistic?
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