How do we live in this world?
This world is just so increadibly fucked up.
I just don’t know how we are meant to live in it.
So much pain.
The people dying of extreme poverty
I look at the way some people are treated here. The mentally ill, the homeless(primarly a sub-group of the former), the addicts, and then there is the Muslims and the Aboriginals.
I’ve started reading Why warriors lie down and die looking into the dark history of this country we call Australia. How Our country like so many others was founded on bloodshed.
I think about the war in Iraq.
I think about Afghanistan.
I think about the War On Terror.
I wish we would fight a war on poverty.
I am left wondering. Why?
How did we get so lost in this most enlightened of ages?
Is the world just full of evil and indifference?
Can we make a change at all?
Are we just stupid for trying?
Will there ever be equality?
Sometimes I just want to run to a place where the streets have no name.
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die is a really good book - I read it a few years. And while the world is mostly awol there are people like Richard Trudgeon who prove that we are not silly trying to make a change. Don’t despair.
Thanks.. I don’t ever despair for too long.
perhaps the world isn’t that bad.
Only from your point of view
I agree David - sure, the West is a technologically advanced society, but the basic human predisposition, characteristics and behaviours remain unchanged. And we have the audactiy to call ourselves civilised …
I am so happy that you are loving it. It made me feel all those thiings that you are talking about too but in the head hope, that there actually is things we can do.
P.S. I probably would have read it through the sermon