The World We Live In

So now I'm over this whole Christmas thing, I guess we all are. Enough of the joyful tunes and all that sharing and caring, now it's time to get back to reality. The world we live in is increasingly more chaotic and we are helpless to the forces that shape the globe (or so it would seem).

When disasters like 9.2 earthquakes, freak snowstorms, and 4 hurricanes in a row happen to us, it really makes it obvious how much we are endangering our environment with the lifestyle we live. Right now everyone in America should reconsider their dominant position as the world's leading consumers and stop to think about the effect we are having on the planet. The WalMart-and-McDonaldization of society has led us like lemmings to the edge of a cliff, with little hope of turning back. It's going to take a serious paradigm shift to save the world.

With Bush's ignoring of the Kyoto protocol as well as his misleading us into war, we have already seen the consequences in a major way. Our president has no shame in catering to the corporate interests, no matter how much destruction and global chaos is created by his pro-profit anti-people policy. By re-electing this man, America is showing the world that we have no problem letting destructive fools hijack our government, using it for their own greedy agenda. It's going to take impeachment to change things for the better, a fact that most fundamentalist radical right "Christians" don't want to admit. If we allow him to stay for a full four more years, it's practically guaranteed that we in America as well as the rest of the world will be affected in the worst of ways. The Bush Administration has proven they are shameless when it comes to the pursuit of profit, at the expense of some of the poorest people on the planet. We as Americans are responsible for the murder of a hundred thousand innocent civilians, as well as unprecedented degradation of the environment, because we "elected" the sonofa Bush. And as a compassionate human being who loves this planet, I cannot stand idly by and watch this continue. It's getting ridiculous.

But what is the answer to solving this BushCo. agenda problem? Are there enough aware Americans to make a difference? Of the ones who are aware, who will stand up and say NO? Is there hope to save the world from environmental catastrophe and pre-emptive policy?

I may just be a humble poet, but I'd like to think I can make a difference.