War

[Gregorian]

33. Consciousness of the truth.

This is why I'm so excited about Bernie Sanders. I hear the truth for the first time in forty years. The truth about what is good for people, not the hype that we've been fed.

I do think it comes from multiple avenues, as you indicated.

I remember hearing the story of my great uncles being Conscientious Objectors in either WW2. My mother grew up in a Quaker family in Connecticut. They had a foundation of nonviolence.

I think the commercialism of our democracy has gone a long way in slowly, small steps at a time, inching people into believing the hype that is hurled at them. And then the fear of being different has created an environment whereby people are afraid of thinking for themselves. I see this in so many areas, it's very disturbing. I see it with global warming. I know people who are fully aware of the danger we are in , and yet frivolously use fuel for their enjoyment. In fact, that's most people. So that comment will irritate almost anyone who reads it. That's the mentality I'm talking about. Doing harm in a benign way. Oh, it's just a little bit.

I kind of lost my energy here. There is an importance to knowing how to discover the truth. War should be easily identifiable as something we should never do. I cannot understand how we can glorify it, and then have people follow along as if it were not horrible. WW2 was unifying, and had many facets to it that were gratifying to those involved. There was a purpose. Our fleet was bombed like nothing that had come before. Hitler was advancing around the globe. It seemed legitimate to ramp up the war machine.

I'm not sure where I'm going with all of this. I've run out of steam. Maybe someone like Bernie Sanders can restore sanity to this drunken nation.