A life's journey is the adventure of a hitchhiker on a road with many vehicles: family, frienship, love, anger, light, gloom. The landscape is constantly at the junction of fact, fantasy and fiction. Rides are divine, or absurd, the stopovers familiar or exotic, encounters controversial, philosophical, passionate, erotic. Growing older the adventure becomes a rollercoaster!
Monday, October 05, 2015
Humanitarian Hypocrisy
Ok! What's I have to say would not suit my Facebook friends, for them a picture would suffice, but I have words on my mind today. Last night on TV I saw the film LORD OF WAR (Nicholas Cage always gets my attention). The subject of gun-running delivering surplus weapons to ((surely) arms-induced conflicts in remote corners of our battered world, sent a powerful message. Arms manufactureres and arms-manufacturing nations quietly supply weapons to both side of conflicts followed by land invasions and air strikes to combact 'rebel forces' who would not exist without their weapons. Of course pollution, destruction, death and refugee crises are morally appeased by appeals to aid and humanitarian efforts. One neat package with the blessing of religious groups, the UN and the stock market...
Futile Emotions
A restless night. Waking up in an agressive mood I reviewed my feelings, why do I want to resume blogging ? I left blogging to dedicate myself to Facebook, then discovered that out of one hundred friends, less than ten interest me, I suspect at least 90 out of 100 of my so-called 'friends' have little interest in what I have to say as well. What can I say ? "Look here my friends, I don't care about your cats and dogs, pictures and recepies of favourite foods or one more Oscar Wilde quote...
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