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~Distractions that Blind Us~

How do we as people sit back and let our home, our world, and life as we know it be destroyed by the governments, religions, and leaders of our world. How can we go on everyday knowing that the car we have to drive, the electricity that turns on our light, the air-conditioning to keep us cool, along with the many things we don't know about that are quickly destroying our earth. How do we let this go on another day longer?

We all need to sit back for a moment, and think about our life and our future here on this planet. We each, first, need to think about how we are too busy working, to busy keeping a roof over our head, the power for the lights on and the boxes and packages of processed/pre-made food in the freezer, to actually take a minute to sit down and think about anything. Then, we need to think about all of the other millions of things that have been created to distract us; such as debts, bills, TV, internet, materialism, consumerism, religion, disease and addiction, to name only a few. While we finance the newest vehicle, shop for the latest must have' fashion trend; while we go to the movies, while we hack away on our computers, very important decisions are being made about this place that we live. We are more concerned and willing to give our attention to things like the newest video game release, a celebrities lack of underwear, who Ben married, or how many times a twenty-five year old girl can check herself in and out of rehab and jail in a month, to worry about something like melting ice shields or the depletion of the world's natural resources. Come on, now.

So, if you were the media, if you were concerned with viewer numbers and the next gruesome headline story that would get everyone's attention, wouldn't you give the viewers what they wanted? Why would you give people the stories they don't want to see? Women don't what to see the destruction and grossness of the land mined for their precious diamonds. People don't want to see how many humans and animals have, and are being killed so we can drive our vehicles and heat our houses. And while we all sit at home, or at our desk at work, or on a beach somewhere, to busy to do anything about it, the rich get richer, the greedy get greedier, and the powerful destroy our world and our planet. This facade of the "American Dream", this fight for freedom, this war on terrorism, is all distraction so that the powerful that control this distraction, can go about their plans right under our noses, with no one saying a word.

We all go along with it, we put our trust in them. I don't know about you, I would only put the future and safety of my life in the hands of someone I fully trusted and to trust someone I need to know them, their values, their ideals, their morals, where they have come from and where they have been. You have to gain my trust, and prove that you are trustworthy. But for some reason, humanity; me, you, we have put our lives in the hands of complete strangers. We put our safety and future in the hands of the world's elite, but do you know who these people are? Do you know anything about these people other than they must be trustworthy because they are politicians and leaders of countries and religions? I don't. And I really don't feel comfortable letting the choices made about our planet, a planet we need to survive, be made by complete strangers that I know nothing about. But for some reason, most people seem to be all right with this

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