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Gene Roddenberry wrote Star Trek during a time in our history where racism was everywhere but look at how far we've come. We have a Black man for President, women have ever increasing roles of leadership, and more people are being judged by who they are and not how they look. Yet we still hear about racism, hate crimes, intolerance for different religions, and worst of all wars an fighting.
If an Alien, an Asian, A Black woman, A Russian, a Scotsman, a Country Doctor, and a White Captain could cause such a cult following more than 40 years ago then why haven't we reached that level of working together? Granted 40 years isn't a long time but look at where we are just in the technology and medicine from then until now. A computer use to take up an entire room but now your cell phone is almost as good as a laptop. We use laser's for surgery and sound waves are used more than x-rays for examines.
Is it that we can't grow up faster than our advances? Maybe it's that we just have to have something to fight about. Maybe it's because some of us would rather flow with the crowd instead of making up our own minds on the right way and the wrong way to treat each other. Is it to much to ask even when where all taught "Treat people like you want to be treated"?
Looking back over the news of the last year I know I can't be the only one thinking the worlds gone mad. Murder for hire (Ladies if your husband and you just don't get along then try divorce and guys the reverse is true), people claiming "God told me to kill" (listen up God never said that so ignore the voices), people claiming they are Pro-Life (then murder a doctor), children being sold for sex (Mom's if this ever seems like a good idea seek help you have a screw loose and if killing your child seems alright please try the method you wish to kill them with on yourself first to make sure it works), and the sad part is the craziness doesn't end it just keeps going.
Didn't even get into the racial garbage being thrown about and it got worse after the election. I won't even bother to repeat some of it as I really don't wish to get sick on my keyboard. It's enough to say that the people saying it and posting it all sound like good candidates for next years Darwin Awards (believe me they really will earn it if that's the most intelligent things they have to say). It's not cute, funny, or any other term but disgusting so please collect your award before you pass this nonsense on to some poor child that will need years of counseling.
Then there is the idiocy of putting profit over environment and profit over safety. Now why in the world would you want to be rich an dead (along with everyone else on the planet) or damaged for life (poisoned, maimed, blinded) because I like life and my limbs intact. That goes if I'm an employee also (you can't pay me enough if I have to risk losing a limb or getting cancer).
What about fighting Wars in the name of religion? Dumbest move ever but somehow we get nutbags getting people behind this. God means love in every religion out there so how do these goobers do it. It doesn't matter which form of a Bible because none of them say "If so and so doesn't believe you must kill them", none say "Kill for me if you want into Heaven", and if God really stands for love then how can you use hate them an kill. Doesn't make since when you have to go against everything that God stands for does it.
Now I don't do drugs but I can see the appeal when this is the kind of stuff going on every day. Which reminds me and brings me to the War-On-Drugs. You have to be on drugs if you think this is a war we can win. For starters people have been smoking pot, hash, an opium, or doing things like hallucinogenic mushrooms for hundreds of years. The only chance of winning means killing off the plants but as long as people have gardens??? How about we just make it legal, regulate it, tax it, and use the money to fund research for making life better. I told a friend the other day that "I might not agree with using drugs but I'll buy pot for someone on chemo if it will help".
Life is the greatest gift we have but to many have no respect for it. There is nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree. We can sit at a table for peace without needing to look at each other through a gun sight. We can accept all of the things that make us different and maybe even learn to value those differences. Right now it doesn't seem the norm because we kill for land, we kill for God, we kill, we kill, and we kill some more but whats the point?
In time I think this kind of craziness will end and we will learn to work together. Will find ways to clean the air, the water, to end famine, disease, and save our endangered species. Will improve our environment before we make the planet unlivable. We will have to because the option is to make the Human Race the next Endangered Species. If that happens it will be to late to make a recovery and no-one will be left to care.
