Since I was a small child, I have been asking "Why?" When my grandmother scolded me for saying "shit" when I was 6 years old, she assured me that "shit" was a "bad" word. In my childhood innocence I asked, ".....but how can a word be bad, when it's just letters arranged in a certain order grandma?", well her patience had been exhausted by that point and I was instructed to sit down and shut up!
So began the odyssey that has been my life. Asking "Why?" and often not liking the answer when the truth finally comes out.
For example:
Fiction: Marijuana was prohibited to prevent crazed drug addicts from roaming the streets endangering the lives of others.
Truth: Certain business interests were behind it's prohibition to limit competition and today 100's of thousands of people are rotting in prison because of it.
Fiction: We went to Iraq to find WMD's, and free the world from an oppressive, dangerous dictator.
Truth: We went to Iraq to insure American and British oil interests maintain control of Iraqi oil.
Fiction: The elites at the top of the food chain are acting in the best interests of all Americans.
Truth: The elites at the top of the food chain are obligated by the very corporate charters they are bound by, to extract the maximum human capital at the lowest possible cost, the country and it's people be damned.
When you start asking "why?" too often in this life, your world view slowly morphs into something darker, more cynical.
On this blog I will look at the days headlines, tragedies, and triumphs and Ask, "Why?".
So began the odyssey that has been my life. Asking "Why?" and often not liking the answer when the truth finally comes out.
For example:
Fiction: Marijuana was prohibited to prevent crazed drug addicts from roaming the streets endangering the lives of others.
Truth: Certain business interests were behind it's prohibition to limit competition and today 100's of thousands of people are rotting in prison because of it.
Fiction: We went to Iraq to find WMD's, and free the world from an oppressive, dangerous dictator.
Truth: We went to Iraq to insure American and British oil interests maintain control of Iraqi oil.
Fiction: The elites at the top of the food chain are acting in the best interests of all Americans.
Truth: The elites at the top of the food chain are obligated by the very corporate charters they are bound by, to extract the maximum human capital at the lowest possible cost, the country and it's people be damned.
When you start asking "why?" too often in this life, your world view slowly morphs into something darker, more cynical.
On this blog I will look at the days headlines, tragedies, and triumphs and Ask, "Why?".
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