RICHARD
12-07-2003, 03:24 AM
one of the things that really ticks me off about being a '21st century schizoid man' (king crimson) is the fact that everyone
at this point in time has no patience for anything anymore...
you have all the people, my mom included, that are bitching about the 'war on terrorism' and the body count in Iraq.....
What about the 58,000 men we lost in a 7 year engagement in Viet Nam, the Korean war or the MILLIONS of men lost in WWII?
Everything is microwave fast now. It is a 60 minute TV show-
the detectives figure out the crime how it was done and who did it
in one hour.....
People today could not endure the rations imposed during WWII, ask some one who lived thru the 'big war' and the sacrifices they made for the troops that were fighting overseas....
Fast food, one hour film development, cable modems, CNN news-
what a bunch of lazy, inconsiderate couch potatoes we have become..
we run into a pole and cut ourselves....what do we do?
instead of taking responsibility we ask for monetary compensation!!
Our parents and grand parents suffered, in silence, to make our world a better place for us...
Instead of being grateful we dishonor their sarcifices by being a bunch of narcissistic, spoiled ingrates that use the excuse that some one else is to blame for our stupidity.
So the next time you think about bashing who ever is in charge for putting us where we are now, remember the folks who bled, were broken and never came back because the government sent them far away to be killed.............
On those bodies we are where we are today.......
Not just the US, but the whole planet........
We don't have the patience that our parents had....so do not try and fool yourselves into thinking that today's problems can be solved in a one hour TV drama....
Everyone complains about what is going on in the world today-
but I can bet you that no one has the the nerve, the guts or the patience to see it to the end no matter how long it takes.
You can make popcorn in one minute and thirty seconds, but
no one has the taste to spend a few years to make the world a safer place.
You can toss the leftovers of a microwave meal into the trash-
but cleaning up the planet is a job that takes a little more effort.
There are two sides to every story, but in the end we are all in it in the long run.......
Good, bad or indifferent-we still have to share the planet with everyone else.
It's too bad that people can't see past their own little world-
Let me apologize for stepping on people's human rights...
but isn't that why we have them?
To be human to each other?
A little patience doesn't hurt.
Ask anyone who has fought or is still fighting against evil or someone who straps a bomb to their bodies and kills innocent people for a cause.
The patience that we do not have become the innocent PATIENTS
in hospitals and clinics around the world because it's OK to blow
yourself up for a 'war' we have no taste for.
Don't blame the people trying to clean things up, blame the people for making the mess.
It makes more sense then.
at this point in time has no patience for anything anymore...
you have all the people, my mom included, that are bitching about the 'war on terrorism' and the body count in Iraq.....
What about the 58,000 men we lost in a 7 year engagement in Viet Nam, the Korean war or the MILLIONS of men lost in WWII?
Everything is microwave fast now. It is a 60 minute TV show-
the detectives figure out the crime how it was done and who did it
in one hour.....
People today could not endure the rations imposed during WWII, ask some one who lived thru the 'big war' and the sacrifices they made for the troops that were fighting overseas....
Fast food, one hour film development, cable modems, CNN news-
what a bunch of lazy, inconsiderate couch potatoes we have become..
we run into a pole and cut ourselves....what do we do?
instead of taking responsibility we ask for monetary compensation!!
Our parents and grand parents suffered, in silence, to make our world a better place for us...
Instead of being grateful we dishonor their sarcifices by being a bunch of narcissistic, spoiled ingrates that use the excuse that some one else is to blame for our stupidity.
So the next time you think about bashing who ever is in charge for putting us where we are now, remember the folks who bled, were broken and never came back because the government sent them far away to be killed.............
On those bodies we are where we are today.......
Not just the US, but the whole planet........
We don't have the patience that our parents had....so do not try and fool yourselves into thinking that today's problems can be solved in a one hour TV drama....
Everyone complains about what is going on in the world today-
but I can bet you that no one has the the nerve, the guts or the patience to see it to the end no matter how long it takes.
You can make popcorn in one minute and thirty seconds, but
no one has the taste to spend a few years to make the world a safer place.
You can toss the leftovers of a microwave meal into the trash-
but cleaning up the planet is a job that takes a little more effort.
There are two sides to every story, but in the end we are all in it in the long run.......
Good, bad or indifferent-we still have to share the planet with everyone else.
It's too bad that people can't see past their own little world-
Let me apologize for stepping on people's human rights...
but isn't that why we have them?
To be human to each other?
A little patience doesn't hurt.
Ask anyone who has fought or is still fighting against evil or someone who straps a bomb to their bodies and kills innocent people for a cause.
The patience that we do not have become the innocent PATIENTS
in hospitals and clinics around the world because it's OK to blow
yourself up for a 'war' we have no taste for.
Don't blame the people trying to clean things up, blame the people for making the mess.
It makes more sense then.