Control – America’s Addiction to War!
Another senseless school shooting!
There have been 74 school shootings in America since Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012. SEVENTY-FOUR!
Human beings are not born violent; it is a learned behavior. While every culture has its rare, insane acts, no other society embraces violence to the same degree as America. What is in the water that makes Americans react to violence with violence in much the same manner as an alcoholic responds to yet another problem in his life – he drinks. We find the drunk’s behavior insane and yet, somehow, we condone the violence in our culture as being simply the way it is. Many describe it as “basic human nature” but I am here to tell you that over 20 years ago my basic human nature was to be knee crawling, puking drunk – and then I discovered that I actually had a choice, and I changed.
Why, when most people find violence in our schools and in our homes and communities so incredibly horrendous, would Americans support governments that spend over 50% of America’s yearly budget on defense and most of the victims of our wars for profit turn out to be innocent women and children?
What you discover when you follow the money is that the majority of defense spending finds its way into the pockets of major corporations? These corporations pocket billions while distributing millions back to the politicians via lobbyists and campaign financing. In return politicians direct the CIA and the military to implement a foreign policy which is financially lucrative for additional American corporations such as oil, mining, and food companies.
The Reader’s Digest version is short and simple: There is no profit in peace. Therefore, corporate America actively promotes war all over the world in order to maintain control and profit. And if you disagree I encourage you to follow the money and discover your own truth.
Is violence working? Is spending $800 Billion a year on defense making the world a better place or is it only making the rich, richer? Can this insane addiction continue? And, as you read the following words of Megan K. Stack from her book Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, you might want to search for the grain of truth and ask yourself what good will come if we continue down the path we are currently on:
Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. The soldiers who don’t die for us come home again. They bring with them the killers they became on our national behalf, and sit with their polluted memories and broken emotions in our homes and schools and temples. We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do. You can tell yourself all the stories you want, but you can’t leave your actions over there. You can’t build a wall and expect to live on the other side of memory. All of that poison seeps back into our soil.
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