I cannot get rid of this. I cannot get rid of this feeling of sadness and ultimate disappointment. Not over WTC, not over 9-11, or any particular person.
The feeling, I can't get past, is the feeling that since we pulled back from the moon, we simply started dying as a country. Frankly, we've become too small.
Darfur, we won't do a damn thing. Why? Because it is a problem that is far too big for the country, and our leaders, to handle.
Terrorism? Same thing, it's too big for the men and women in charge right now to handle.
It's nothing to do with money or personal power. It's that they're too damn small to handle it all.
We went to the MOON people! Earth! America! We went there and we found it to be lifeless, and we pulled back. The second we did that was the second we became too small!
It keeps happening!
So, it's freaking lifeless!! That's the challenge! To bring life to the dead world! The same with Mars! With Titan! With even Venus!!
People, we should be looking at Global Warming as a challenge, not as an impediment! What happened to us?! Why did we let small men and women take charge of our lives?!
Religion? We as a people should be discussing where God and Goddess belong in living as the Solar born Human, not Earth Born Man! Our dreams should be in watching from Sedna or Eris and wondering how long it will be to get to the FIRST STAR!
I am sick and tired of it. Of watching small men take away dreams because, they have no ability to dream themselves. I'm tired of wondering if I should stop wasting my time with dreams of whole worlds rather than worrying if I'm going to be the next to last generation of just one!
I am tired of people saying that it is too much to reach for the next great dream when I know that if you gave it a chance, millions would answer the call! I'm not talking about space alone! I'm talking about waging peace aggressively!
These small men see the terrorists and say "They're trying to kill us! Let's try to kill them back!!"
I see the terrorists and wonder why. Why go to all that trouble? Not the leaders. They too are small men who care only for themselves and no other. They use people as though they are pawns for their own games of power and money, little realizing that they will die and be forgotten with nothing they have done surviving past 1000 years.
No, I speak of the pawns they convince to carry out this madness. Why? Why blow one self up? Look to the culture, the very places they live. It will continue as long as the place remains as it is. Hot, with water rationed, if existent at all, and nothing that grows except in very hard to raise places. They have no lives, so they throw them away in some hope that it will bring them a better after life.
So why aren't we trying to change it for them? Why not give them something to live for? Give them something they can thrive for!! Make the offer at the very least!
Schools? They should be practically temples!! The next generation of kids, should be looking for ideas to top the last one! Each child having the right and ability of challenging the perceptions of yesterday! Each one reaching, for the unknown, with a zest that makes humanity proud! Not planning to run some job that's at best, a "Would you like fries with that?" mentality!
Yet, here we are, doing just that.
Small... too small.
Talk of the Titanic has been said here many times about President Bush. Well, I say that if America tried to build the Titanic, the best we might get after all the crapola about "saving money" is a nice little leaky dingy that would be less worthy than a freaking inner tube!
I'm tired of this!! We let one group of people decide for the rest of humanity just how small it should be! No! No more damnit! We should not need to worry about these small men any longer! They have had their fifteen minutes of fame, thank you Andy Warhol!
Good-bye Ann Coulter!! You're small and say nothing important!
Good-bye Mister President! Resign now! You're small and unimportant!
The same for Cheney, Leiberman, Rumsfeld, and all the rest!!
You want oil! Fine! Keep it! We're bigger than this by far! You go right ahead and use up your oil! We'll develop the fuels that will keep us from burning up! Oh, and as for the countries that are staying with oil! We'll help them! Offer them the processes we develop, for free!! Why? Because the money the make on other things will far outweigh any money, we might have made from whatever process of fuel we develop!
How? Easy, they'll be alive to develop their own economies rather than dead and dying of drought and thirst!!
We are AMERICANS! Don't ever forget that! We can be really stupid at times, but we are still able to over come this SMALL minded group of SMALL men and women, and become big again.
Stand tall, and for every word they utter, say, "You are too small, and I have no time for you any more."
"I have a world to help. Get out of my way!"
As for their followers, remind them of what we were, and what we are. America is not about small minds. It is not about small things like "pocket books" and "conservatism."
It is about us, as a people being innovative, and growing, and moving beyond the reaches of our world and grasping onto the next one. We shouldn't be hiding under our beds, looking around in worry and dread, but rather reaching out and finding new ways to solve the problems, we have.
You know the saying about thinking outside the box?
America should never have allowed the box to be built.
Ever.