Thursday, July 31, 2008

Seabass

Humans are funny things.

I sometimes wonder if the all the white supremacists, the jingoists, and the elite nationalists ever think about their beliefs, about how organized hate is a massive maw that can only end up eating itself. When the world runs out of blacks, hispanics, asians, and all manner of undesireables, and the bloodlines are at last purified, what will be left? When the borders are closed and the walls built high enough that only "us" can live here, and not "them," what will we have?

I'm often locked up in my own head, and that's just one thing that passed me by today. What would really happen? Utopia or dystopia? Has anyone really figured it through all the way? It doesn't take a lot, and as a rule of thumb, any agenda that reaches its goals through the systematic displacement, destruction, or harm to another person or place is doomed to fail, as the populations of the world only accept good neighbors, and only tolerate bad ones for so long.

Some would see that as a reason to be an aggressor, to take things by force. Again, a failing notion, as the population of would-be tyrants, punks, and shit-disturbers in this world is vastly outnumbered by the number of people who care only enough to "thump 'yo ass back to the stone-age," and then carry on their lives as per normal.

Xenophobia is just about as bad. It irks me like it irks a lot of people that a difference of appearance, language, or belief is enough to warrant mistrust and hostility. It's an excuse, is what it is. An excuse born of laziness, because a lot of people are lazy. Too lazy to understand another group, another demographic, and instead just figure they're creepy and should stay away.

Of course, me ranting about this stuff is about as effective as the stuff I rant about. The next generation is going to be worse than the last, and if people's understanding of history and our common roots is any example, I can safely bet that we've got many more decades of ignorant folk banding together with pitchforks and fire to look forward to.

Reasoning this shit is giving me a headache. Perhaps an indication that I shouldn't be trying to reason it.

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