do everything you can to protest this religious fanaticism and unjust genocidal war

[S.R. Prozak]

ultimately, this war must happen.
the world must see what the US and Israel and UK have become, and it will become

"those with industrial values" versus "those who want to live for life's sake itself"

and then the real battlefield is joined...

it would not be unglorious to die in fight for THAT quest

-~-

i am not a humanist, and loss of life - well, it is not bothersome in itself

i am an "ecosystemist" and thus the loss of cultures or different ways of doing things (parallelism) is to me a great loss

iraq and the arab nations to me represent people with whom my tribe once had a race war

but now, excepting international commerce, we have no real beef

and should be as they are: content to live the eternal in our lands

-~-

george bush is not motivated by oil, although that is how he motivates others.

i can take you on a drive through texas, past the oilfield equipment rusting in piles, past the unemployed, past the closed buildings and once-grandish offices of oil companies

i can show you former millionaires

there is oil in texas;
there is oil in venezuela;
there is oil in alaska;
there is oil far from Israel.

-~-

ultimately, it became clear that after nature was dominated, convenience would corrupt us

industrial society would make us autistic in our neurotic focus on small parts of the present reality

thus we would engage in neverending doctrinal disputes

here we see judaism and christianity, the religions that sprung of international commerce and the city culture it produced, tackle their offshoot, islam, which seems to value technology and righteousness less than righteous living

after these are done in, look for a global reich of judeo-christian values

-~-

to me, we have been stumbling down the wrong path for some time

when the ancients meant technology, they meant which herbs and rocks to use to produce great works

when we mean technology, we mean "what can we use to borrow energy from natural cycles, and take it away, never to return"

we are still part of nature
she engineers its return
through ways horrifying to us

in this there is only justice in that amongst our rotting bones will grow flowers

-~-

in that world of 1s and 0s, of profit and loss, of domination and submission, things are wholly polar

thus a leader can "lose his temper" and declare war like a brat

and it's fair and justice to smash impoverished 'rabs with bulldozers

"justice is served"

at this feast, all starve

-~-

for now, there are profiteers, as there have always been

but their empires also fall
their fortunes also dissolve
what is eternal in that? no

-~-

it seems to me that every species faces the ultimate question of adaptation when it tackles technology and its token, money: can you handle something this tangible and still hold on to intangible values?

one either dominates technology
or becomes submissive to it
and soon parrots its values, and uses its best interests to shape human (and by our power, the flora and fauna of earth) life

life and technology are not mutually exclusive
but life must be master
or the unthinking - unaware - will fill the gap

-~-

no matter what you think of saddam hussein and his arab warriors

this war is about the political system of the future of the world

it is industrial society against those who believe in life for its own sake

-~-

really, there is no way to close
the question has not ended
may not for centuries
but it begs another question
asked to us each and us all

which side do you take?

-~-

i lied
from this question there is another:

do you love anything enough
to understand it and then
potentially face the nothingness
for it?

if there is no altruistic love,
even hate is conquered
and all that is left is numbness
pushing buttons and buying plastic
as the sky darkens
and from within the disease strengthens

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