The World is Burning

Like a flame of burning methanol, the state of the world burns in an invisible fire.

There is a war on us.  The people of the world live in divisive fear of each other and the power tripping, government money lovers are enjoying every minute of their controlled demolition of our lives so they can line their pockets and enjoy the status of their power over the people they consider nothing more than mindless sheep.

There are wars raging, governments untrusted, men and woman of power stepping on the backs of everyone below them, controlling everything; there is manipulation of beliefs, abuse of power and the bodies of the ones who speak loudly lining the path under their feet. Disinformation runs rampant out of the Media's mouth.

Protests of peace don't work anymore as laws reach around justice for the corporation instead of standing up and creating a safe barrier for those that would be trampled, who then become less the protester and more the looter.  Have we come to a time where violence is the only way to bring change again?  Is this the only way the powerful will hear and be thwarted?  They will never let go of what they have-- greed has a strong grip and they will never be mindful of giving anything back.

We live in a world where war is a business.  It profits far more than peace ever will but at the high price of the innocent.  Is that worth it?  In the disguise of fighting to sustain our "freedom", we are lied to to fight for (and die for) the grasp of power and control for those in power.  The needs of the many, choked out by the greed of the few.

We have become blind; sheep, weak with the comfort of our measly paychecks, with being stuck forever paying off debts for most things that are unnecessary and unneeded.  We are completely used to the slavery we find ourselves chained to as our "freedoms" are fewer and fewer.  All while of our government is telling us what we owe, what's right and what's wrong, who's going to be our leader, why we owe tax upon tax.  Our government is no righteous being to look up to.  Our government is dark; a seedy, dirty little man with control it should not have but, for some reason, we cannot find the urge to stick our boot down on his neck to bring him back under our control.  We the people. Do we even realize there are far more of us than there ever will be of them?  Why have we become so passive?

A very large percentage of the American public doesn't even vote!  And then some of those same non-voters riot through the streets, destroying public property and assaulting fellow Americans simply because they think they didn't get their way.

We are fools. Fools who believe that our government has our back and our interest held in the greater good, they they are in service to us to create the America that was proposed to us since the beginning of its establishment.  Even then, we were dangled a dream; a dream stolen from the natives who had already been living there, a dream created this way can only sour.  And it had become just that-- Sour.

Is there hope?  If so, where is it?

Is Humanity even a worthy cause anymore?  Are we worth saving?  Or is everything kindling for the fire that rages, feeding off us all until nothing is left?

I'll take my chances with the idea of Hope and that humanity can overcome the fire and shine.