If you stop and think about it, my generation the thirty something crowd born at the tail end of the sixties has grown up with war, turmoil and hate.
Our grandfathers had WWII and Korea, and our fathers had Vietnam, but theirs were eras of internal hate. Racism, the ugly blotch on our society that still today festers in the hearts of so many misguided fools.
But today we face racism from abroad, people taught to hate us because of who we are, what we have and whom we choose to help. Our government has made huge sweeping mistakes, meddled where they should not have meddled, and in the end have led us down a path of international hate that only continues to spiral out of control.
What is the solution? Is it something we can solve, fix, replace. No. Its that sort of thinking that got us into this mess. Is the only solution to mind our own business, go back to a cold war era?
I wish I could have grown up when my dad was a boy, it was 1938… how was his life? I’d like to think it was a lot better that it is now, but how was it to have to deal with racism. As a white man it was no doubt pretty damn easy. Would another of color think this was a golden era? Absolutely not.
The answer I think is that the scale stand in balance right now, with no interruption or change, they will topple and the world will become a much worse place as things continue to escalate.
But, and this is a big but — if we can make it move the other direction, if the Middle East can find their own peace, and if we can get the hell out of there, I think we could be on the verge of a truly Golden Age.
Have any ideas on how me can help it along? I’ll be posting mine as I think of them, I’d love it if you did too.
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