The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

-Allan Bloom

Friday, July 21, 2006

The Good Guys Vs. The Bad Guys

In regards to the current and on-going conflict in the middle-east (and many more in the world):

Wow, sure looks like all the hate-mongers have got people out there to swallow a lot of it. Let's just keep this up and teach it to our kids, and with a little luck, humanity will never evolve beyond this BS that keeps us down. There are insane people everywhere who end up getting into power situations because they are the most aggressive/destructive. They want to spread their anger because it supports their cause. This is feeding it. Think you're angry, think about how angry the Palestinians/Jews are. So angry in fact that nothing is going to stop them from trying to destroy the other. See a pattern here? How do we get out of it? Certainly the path we're on has shown a few times to not really have the greatest results. You think at some point you'll convince anyone that one side is good and the other side is bad. People need to calm down. Of course there are those on both side who think the world would be better off without the other, but this is not the majority, and this is not going to happen. And until there's a critical mass of people willing to not buy into the bullshit from the leaders and their media mouthpieces, this is what we get. And the kind of malicious vitriol that is getting thrown around here and in the blogosphere ad infinitum is only fanning the flames. COME ON PEOPLE!Yes, things are bad and pretty hopeless seeming, but what about a little compassion and seeing through the fact that the majority of people do not tow the party line of the insane power structure.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Calmness is not more important than justice, however. I think it's right to feel incensed when reading this former Israeli Prime Minister's words:

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
(David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978).

And can you really stay calm while reading this Israeli soldier's testimony?

"[They] killed between 80 to 100 Arabs, women and children. To kill the children, they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one house without corpses. The men and women of the villages were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite the houses. One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a house he was about to blow up...Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman with her newborn baby was made to clean the place for a couple of days, and then they shot her and the baby. Educated and well-mannered commanders who were considered "good guys"...became base murderers, and this not in the storm of battle, but as a method of expulsion and extermination. The fewer the Arabs who remained, the better."

(The testimony of an Israeli soldier who participated in the massacre at al Duwayma Village on October 29, 1948. Published: "Davar", June 9, 1979.) Quoted in "Censored 2005", Peter Phillips & Project Censored.

5:27 AM  
Blogger Mike said...

In my opinion, justice never involves revenge. If it can be determined that wrongs have occurred (assuming you can find a few good honest people), there are generally ways of making things right, or at least compromising that can be seen as the morally best thing to do.

All I'm saying is that this cloud of anger is not helping any. Justice rarely comes from anger.

4:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) said, The strong is not the one who overcomes by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.

4:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Good Guys will show you how it works and the Bad will just send you around to get the information it's the hard. I tell the truth and 98% i have meet run. I know i am just wanting for my chance to show God's blessing bottom up getting hit by everything they have at the top,Goverment, State and Church. 1st Thessalonians 5:21-22 is spoken...

11:48 AM  

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