The horrible events that took place in Paris on Friday
November 13, 2015 are a window into the crazed nature of the human world. It may provide some cathartic yet transient
relief to allow raw emotion to dictate our collective response. It may seem like right thinking to regard these
horrific actions as representing pure and unadulterated evil. Yet to do so without examining our own
collective behavior as representatives of the so-called “developed world”
especially in regard to our overt colonial behavior and the concomitant use of
weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East over much of recent history is to
live in a kind dream world markedly divorced from reality
.
Human history is permeated with such acts of unimaginable
brutality. This behavior knows no
allegiance to any particular ethnic group, religious affiliation or political
system. Collectively, the species has
gone through the same and seemingly endless cycle of violence and retribution again
and again. We can certainly choose to perpetuate
this particular journey once again – the most likely scenario. Or, we could choose an entirely different
path. As usual, the choice is ours to
make.
This planet is our only home. We are all feeble passenger through time; our
sojourn is brief, and the cosmos is wondrous and vast. The kind of world we leave in our wake is a
natural consequence of how we choose to live now.
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