justnick's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leave it to Alan Moore to get me in a mood I look at the world today and it frightens me. For one who has honed his cynicism to a fine point over the years, it's sometimes hard for me to look at the ugly truths of the world, much less understand their occasional necessity. Where is the line drawn, between colateral damage and an innocent bystander? When you drop bombs to stop a war, how many deaths are justifiable? We live in a world where police brutality is looked at as commonplace and at worst unfortunate, where comprimising integrity and morals are simply things that must be done to get along in a faceless world that doesn't know our names. We live in a world where a world leader lies to his people to justify a personal vendetta and ignores the real threats to the world. We can now be arrested for downloading music, art is no longer a free enterprise, but a corporate tool. Beauty is now capitalised? We live in a world where facism is diplomacy and anyone who speaks out against the lies is branded a liberal, and pacifism is anti-pariotism, and anti-partiotism is a four letter word. The people who's jobs it is to watch over us while we sleep fight wars of vengeance rather than necessity. Bombs fly, innocents die, and the six o'clock news tells us who Tom Cruise has slept with this week, and what he has to say about trivial serenities. We live in a world where bad language, free speech, and the right of belief are branded Judas and warmongering is the smiting of evils. We live in a world where one of the most powerful men on Earth uses the word 'evil' to condemn thousands of innocents to death. And his reasons? Their leader killed innocent civilians of ours, because we were evil too. Evil is everywhere it needs to be, it seems, to justify the actions of those with power. The meek stand to inherit a spolied Earth, both morally and environmentally. And we all ignore it, as to better sleep at night. I ignore it. Fanatical shepherding of the people to conviniently subdusive beliefs by the catholic church in the past, are becoming the weapons of the facist regimes I see when I try not to look at our future. A bleak future, spoken by one who doesn't know enough to justify his opinions, but fears they are more right than he dares imagine, created by the ones we elect to watch over us, and protect us. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. "Who watches the watchmen?" -Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 2:39 p.m. - 2003-07-27 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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