I am thinking it is impossible to completely get rid of God. You can not believe, but then you must replace God with something else. It doesn't necessarily have to be love or truth or peace or nature. With us it is convenience. Convenience is our god.
For Convenience we destroy the Earth. When we had our war with Iraq, it was ostensibly over fictitious weapons. What about when we'll have to have a war with Iran? I don't think weapons, real or fake, will be needed. If the country's Internet were to slow down to dial-up speed, we'd be bombing Tehran by nightfall. What wouldn't we do for convenience?
Conversely, look at what we don't do due to convenience. The government fakes a war, blatantly fakes and lies, and we do not riot. The biggest protests should have come after the war, when no weapons were found and the lie was exposed. But there were none because we enjoy our Internet, our apps, our GPS, our Facebook, our bullshit.
Perhaps the key aspect of the '60s was not drugs or sex or peace or equality but White people joining minorities in prioritizing anything above material gain and comfort. The Nazis created a war mentality through hate. Our watered down fascism creates a war mentality by numbing us with convenience. That way, we do not feel it when they drill a hole in us and implant their poisonous ways. Because the leather seat, so tortuously removed from the cow, is so comfortable. Because the air-conditioning, with all its inefficiencies and carbon-footprinting, is so cool. Because the background music and flavored fluoride treatment and emailed reminders of this appointment are just too nice to pass up.
The next time you wonder why we aren't rioting over the BP oil spill, don't Facebook your friends about it. Don't Tweet how rotten the world is. It's too convenient.
For Convenience we destroy the Earth. When we had our war with Iraq, it was ostensibly over fictitious weapons. What about when we'll have to have a war with Iran? I don't think weapons, real or fake, will be needed. If the country's Internet were to slow down to dial-up speed, we'd be bombing Tehran by nightfall. What wouldn't we do for convenience?
Conversely, look at what we don't do due to convenience. The government fakes a war, blatantly fakes and lies, and we do not riot. The biggest protests should have come after the war, when no weapons were found and the lie was exposed. But there were none because we enjoy our Internet, our apps, our GPS, our Facebook, our bullshit.
Perhaps the key aspect of the '60s was not drugs or sex or peace or equality but White people joining minorities in prioritizing anything above material gain and comfort. The Nazis created a war mentality through hate. Our watered down fascism creates a war mentality by numbing us with convenience. That way, we do not feel it when they drill a hole in us and implant their poisonous ways. Because the leather seat, so tortuously removed from the cow, is so comfortable. Because the air-conditioning, with all its inefficiencies and carbon-footprinting, is so cool. Because the background music and flavored fluoride treatment and emailed reminders of this appointment are just too nice to pass up.
The next time you wonder why we aren't rioting over the BP oil spill, don't Facebook your friends about it. Don't Tweet how rotten the world is. It's too convenient.
