Isn’t Nuclear War & Slave Labour Enough Stimulation?

It’s a crazy world when people obsess over watching the Oscars and today’s so-called “Heritage classic’ hockey game in Vancouver, when right now so much is going on across the world, & in our own country.  Not saying people should not have a good time, enjoy their leisure time.  Not saying “don’t watch the Oscars, or “you should not watch the hockey game”.  Just wondering how many people give considerable thought to the bigger picture.  Not expecting everyone to be running around being “activists’ all the time, but asking what are people doing to at least be informed, if not taking action here and there, to make this world a better place.  It’s not easy being informed today.  The Internet & electronic communication has only isolated us more, allowed people to hang out in the little tiny cubbyholes they like to, rather than reading today’s newspaper, or all watching the 6:00 news, listening to the radio.  We will perhaps never have another elvis, another Beatles, another John Wayne or John F. Kennedy, or Mother Teresa, because we are enveloped by the Internet.  By Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, smartphones, tablets, i-pods,  an ever-expanding universe of websites growing in number literally exponentially.  Surely we cannot minimize the fact that right now, Russia appears to be invading Ukraine, & the West is forced to figure out how best to respond.  I don’t know about you, but I feel a tad uncomfortable at the thought that many people may die, especially if this situation escalates. There have been many large-scale wars over the years, & they all began with relatively little skirmishes.  And this situation hasn’t been “little”. Nuclear weapons have a way of affecting a lot of people, like millions,  in a very short span of time, like seconds.  And then, I discovered that the Tetley tea sitting in my cupboard was harvested literally by slave workers including children & the elderly in India.  Our own Prime Minister & his “government”, is changing every facet of Canada & what it means to be Canadian.  That alone is something we could catalogue very easily but would take hours, the scope of it is that large.  Suffice it to say that now Harper is literally changing how our democracy will work with the so-called “Fair elections Act”, and is handcuffing labour, environmental groups, scientists, and anyone who dissents, with other legislation. I find it challenging to keep all of these things in perspective sometimes.  Yes, by all means, go have a good time!  Do it often!  Live life to the fullest, and live in the moment.   Just make some of those moments  contribute towards future moments, comparable to growing food.  In order to have crops to harvest and food on the table next year, you have to enrich the soil, add water, ensure there is adequate sunlight.  the investment of time and effort along the way may just prove to be a s fruitful as the food you eat later.

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