the decline of western civilization, part 1

it's easy to write rant blogs.

it's easy for me to get angry at something and post an amateurish attempt at writing for all to read.

it's even easier for us, when we're finally learning how to tighten our wallets, to also tighten our hearts and forget people who aren't just low on cash, they're low on personal freedom, water, freedom of mind, body and sou

a few things to think about as we get closer to the holidays:

in the 21st century, the one we live in currently, where scholars and philosophers would claim we are the most enlightened, the world has the largest population of slaves, forced labor ever known at 22 million.

Africa, especially Darfur and Congo (and surrounding areas), continue to be depleted of it's natural resources to serve the west and northern hemispheres insatiable desire for product and consumerism. Europe, the U.S. and now Asia continue to rape that continent of it's dignity so we can sell more labtops and mp3 players. The direct result is forced labour, rape and murder of their own, genital torture and mutilation, and sucking dry of the natural resources that would make Africa a commerce continent that could compete in the global market.

Sex traffiking ravages Cambodia, Russia, Europe, Central America and sadly and suprisingly, a large market 50,000/yr over the central american borders), is America. Children, women stolen from their families, who are then threatened to silence or their family will be murdered, are sent to fulfill the pleasures of men with money in my own country. In India, numbers range around 200,000 girls under 14 who have been sold into sexual slavery.

I don't say all this to shock you. I say this for my own sake too.

We are a generation that is capable of saying no to all these horrors, to making them visible, to tearing down the curtains that hide them from the public eye and mind and revealing the monsters who steal the souls and essence of the innocent. The world is scalable. The world is so connected. The world is smaller now. And, the governments aren't doing enough. The multinational corporations are complicit, and we are comfortable.

Am I bugging you? I don't mean to bug you.

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