best statement on the 4000

[acroyear]

Pharyngula: 300 million dead:

I don't get it.

As a nation, we stand atop a pedestal of bones and ruined lives. The disruption of families is ongoing, and our honor has been thrown away by the greed and ignorance of our leaders. And yet we carry on as if nothing is happening, nothing is wrong, no action need be taken. We will have an election, and one of the candidates stands for amplifying our involvement in this evil chaos … and he stands a chance of winning. The monsters who have perpetrated this crime will walk away to fat retirement checks and lives of wealth in the service of bloated corporate sponsors, and they will not pay — you will.

We all have blood on our hands, and no one cares.

Once, four dead in Ohio could stir us. Now, four thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, it doesn't matter … we have all become dead inside.

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Kinda hard to get motivated to do something when our VP says "So?" and the main opposition seems to be filled with Keystone Cops who can't get out of their own way.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

The vast majority of people are sheep. That is a universal constant. Most people do what they do because everyone else is doing it. Even most of our leaders are sheep.

Those who are not sheep shape the world. In the '60s, that meant a number of young people who realized that their generation had the vote and enough numbers to make any changes they wanted. So they exercised their ability to lead sheep.

Now, 40 years later, the vast majority of non-sheep are those same people who agitated for issues back in the 60's. But now they're 40 years older. They don't want to change the world. They've been there, done that, got the tie-dyed T-shirt, raised their kids, and not they just want a cushy and peaceful retirement. They're carrying on as if nothing is happening, nothing is wrong, and no action needs to be taken because THAT is what they want to believe. And all their lives they've learned that if they act like that is what the world is, the world will become it for them.

There aren't enough non-sheep out there who feel strongly about these issues. Who are willing to push against the inertia of the sheep. But the longer they wait, the worse things get, the easier it will be to move the sheep. The worse things are, the more the sheep will want to move, and the quicker they will follow any leader who pops up.

Doc

we are desensitized

[petricat666.livejournal.com]

I commentator, I forget where I read this, said that, we don't get as outraged and join protests in great numbers because we are getting the news reports so instantaneously. Also, the fact that this time, we "hate the war" and "support our troops". During Vietnam, the soldiers were personally attacked. We don't go to movies or documentaries about the war on terrorism because we don't want to be reminded of something we all ready see on the television, hear argued on the radio, read daily in the paper. Stop/Loss, the latest movie which opens this week is playing down the Iraq war connection. Every movie and documentary about the war has tanked at the box office except one - Fahrenheit 911.