How many car chases do we see a year? How many shootings do we hear about on a daily basis? How many wars rage on across the globe every day of every year? How many people starve to death throughout the world? How many immigrants crowd every border of every country to leave either poverty, war, crimes, health concerns or imminent death? How many people are put on Pain Medication to shut them up every year?
Overpopulation is a problem that no one seems to address. In 1970, the United States had about 180 million human residents. Today it is well over 340 million. Our roads are clogged, our rents and mortgages are out of control. The price of food, goods and services are and have been skyrocketing for years. There are soon more retired people than there are working folks. Despite the protestations of the naysayers, CO2 from humans is greatly affecting our Global Warming and the rising ocean tides. As our Coastal Communities around the world erode in front of our eyes, we take it all in stride? Our quality of life has diminished to the point that daily shootings of our neighbors and friends has become commonplace.
Partisan Politics in every country with the hard language and actions of those Administrations are killing protesters, killing law abiding citizens and making our lives into a day to day operation. The state of our Healthcare Systems are in shambles. Just getting a Primary Care Doctor becomes a major task. When these folks retire, their replacements are not so forgiving or caring and demand various operations or procedures to enhance their pocketbooks. Revision surgeries have become “Standard Operating Procedure”. Finding caring and effective nursing has become almost impossible because of the terrible wages that won’t allow an adequate living for either the Nurses or their families.
The Political Environments across the world are not just “Contentious” but verge on accepted Criminal Physical Attacks with Liars, Criminals and Miscreants becoming “Representatives of the people”! The early deaths of Celebrities, Athletes, and Activists are being unduly accepted as “just bad luck”? Our greatest thinkers and
Scientists are being discounted and pushed to the side of critical thinking, being replaced by devout liars and rumor mongers – and home grown Social Media Terrorists!
The Death of our young, old and in-between has become accepted and commonplace without anyone asking critical questions or demanding investigation. Mutations of various diseases are being developed by drug companies around the world to ensure a constant demand for New Drugs and Drug Therapies. Not cures?
As they said in the film “Highlander” – “there is a quickening” and our world is spinning so fast that all of us; will soon be unable to control it. Being kind to others has become a seldom thing. Watching people drive on our freeways, blocking folks out for no reason, slowing down in the fast lane, living in their own world without regard to others has become a “cottage trade” with “Badges and Marques” on vehicles being an excuse to be complete uncaring human beings.
Our world has become hard, not because anyone wanted it to be, but because of the Political Leadership of every country has been accepting of bad behavior by their leaders and those with evil intent and corrupt, self serving behavior running the show for several years.
We are reminded by the words of the Poet John Donne in the 1600’s who said:
“The loss of one life – diminishes us all!” Donne was a Catholic living in England where Catholics were banned. Today, those who want to ban abortion, have no qualms about accept the killing of someone in war or even a neighbor with a different political view. The Evangelical World today seems to have accepted the Catholic version of “Situational Ethics” without exceptions! “It doesn’t matter what you do, even if you get caught!”
Our world has become harder because we are becoming overpopulated and everyone is afraid they will not have enough to eat, enough to take care of their families, “enough….enough!” These are the same folks that say that there is plenty of room for more people on this earth as they fly over various deserts and open space, then complain bitterly when immigrants move into their town.
Time for all of us to take a new look at our world, our country, our state, our county, our family and our friends. Time to embrace the Chinese Year of the Water Rabbit, coming on January 22nd. Time to make a warm and cozy feeling for all of us in 2023. Either than or cling tenaciously to the last gasp of the Year of the Tiger and approve of “death warmed over” on a daily basis!
The Hard New World of 2023?
*It will be fun to watch the Republicans self destruct in the upcoming Congress. Wish that Bob Livingston was still around….he was a great one. Liz Cheny and Adam Kinzinger are all that is left of the “Negative arm of the United We Stand Party. Making women have babies they either don’t want or can’t afford will be the great downfall of that party.
Cheney and Kinzinger may be “left” in the party, but they are not left in Congress.
I don’t know that they’ll self-destruct either. They’re going to create havoc, but they are better at getting people assign blame to their opponents then the Democrats are, even when the blame actually does belong to the Republicans. Fox News was a main reason for this: media that didn’t even have to be bought, with which other media outlets had to compete.
Yeah yet another case where the dichotomy of “left” and “right,” and the abuse of the word “conservative”, are completely unhelpful.
“”I was blind and now I can see……” When men get pregnant and have to stay home barefoot and pregnant for 21 years…..then the Republican Party will make a comeback. They have no issues, they have no solutions, they have no ethics and no morality. Other than that, the concept that people are dumb enough to vote for Santos and the Santos Clones is ridiculous. Fox News, News Max or Infowars? Choose your poison and watch as the Republicans equivocate on the Abortion issue…….let alone the Denier Concept. “If your daughter or wife was raped by a gang of five….would you want them to have a baby?” “If Fetal Development was Compromised and a baby was born without a brain”…..would you support an Abortion?
If the Life of the mother was in doubt = no matter how long in the pregnancy…..would you allow an Abortion? No thanks, the Republican Party has lost its way and as long as the Jim Jordans of the world reign, they will find themselves being drained from the Swamp in the next couple of elections. Gerrymandering or not!
*What is with the 24/7 Coverage of the Monterrey Park Shooting? Every channel for 72 hours…and that just adds to the “Copy Cats” out there, whether in NO CAL or around the Country? Without Mandartory Drug Testing for all Firearm Purchases and Transfers…..this non-sense will continue unabated.
It’s an interesting question, Ron. While focus on a crime may invite copycats, suppressing coverage of a crime on that basis tends to suggest that it is unworthy of coverage. I think that most people in minority communities — AAPI particularly, this decade — would say that suppressing coverage is worse than allowing it. That this is Chinese-on-Chinese violence may affect that calculus (anti-Asian violence committed by whites and Blacks generally does get covered), but my sense is that AAPIs (that “Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders,” for those who don’t know) think that marking both tragedies is appropriate.
I have never understood why you think that mandatory drug testing would do squat about shootings. The gun used in the first case, and I think the second, were illegal in California. They were either purchased illegally in-state or (more likely) imported illegally from out of state. Where in that process was drug testing of any use? And testing of whom? (If we barred people who have used alcohol and tobacco from buying or holding guns, we might get somewhere, but only because there are so many of them. We’d do better to bar people who drive from having guns. But I doubt that we’d successfully push either plan through the SCOTUS.
What seems most clear to me is that the stockpiling of guns and ammunition is the brightest of red flags — but I don’t know how to address it within the bounds of current appellate law.
*Dr. D,
First off the Shooter was Vietnamese NOT Chinese. Yeah, they may all look alike but Koreans, Japanese, Tibetans, Nepalese, and the other 120 variations of Asians are not the same. 2ndly, Deterrance, ever heard of it? The Death Penalty came out with first the Gas Chamber and then the Electric Chair as deterrent factors against heinous crimes. Since Trump, it doesn’t have any influence, because many of the these folks belong to Death Cults. We have not qualms with anyone that is a Law Abiding Citizen having one or 1000 guns. It is those who are suffering from Pain Medication or the Lack of it and the Mental Disturbances caused by Psycho-Tropics drugs to begin with.
Want a gun….no problem….just don’t do drugs. But we have fought this line over 20 years now and counting. Too many Judges, Politicians, Celebrities and Luminaries in our Society are Hooked on Drugs of one kind or another.
All we can say is……..”Don’t worry….be happy with 5 or 600 mass shooting events every year in the USA.” Status Quo? We say NO!