andreya

Negative thought for the day: after reading through the entire thread of Pearl's "American Voter" set (I missed it when it first came out), I am thoroughly disappointed with the rampant irrationality that plagues our world. I think so many of us Americans, and much of the rest of the world for that matter, follow our political beliefs blindly. How many of us really KNOW who Bush is as a person, what he feels and his reasoning for doing the things he does? And how many of us really KNOW for sure that Bush's reasons for going to war WERE justifiable? All we have to go on is what our friends, our family and the media tells us, and we have to remember that we may not always be getting the full story. I know I have followed blindly also in my tirades against Bush. What did I really know? This entire political climate has been frightening me for some time. It seems like too often we lose our compassion for each other as human beings because we get so wrapped up in our silly pride, blind anger, irrational fear, religious or political ideology. Republicans think liberals want a world full of weed and communism, and liberals think republicans want to fuck everyone else over. I don't think either is true. I have stopped to think, and I do not have an answer to what needs to be done in our world, but I do know that real pain and desperation is hell, and we make many people's existences living hells because so many of us do not remember to love and respect each other. It truly saddens me, and honestly, I wonder sometimes that we haven't just wiped ourselves out by now. Nothing is right and nothing is true, but everything is right and everything is true, and all the questions are answers, and nothing makes sense, and yet somehow everything makes sense, and it is quite frankly all beyond me. Sometimes I am just struck numb by the complexities and the pain and joy and shit and light and blood and air, and all I end up realizing is that my mind is much too simple to grasp it all.