27 1 / 2012
‘Complicity with Evil’
Today is Holocaust memorial day, a day to remember those who lost their lives due to the genocide that happened during world war two. This week I finished reading a book called ‘Complicity with Evil’, it details the failure of the United Nations (the organisation set up with the principle of ensuring the holocaust never happened again) in the age of recent genocide.
I often read books that infuriate me, make me question humanity and the everything around me, but this book really let me dumbfounded. After WW2, many vowed that another tragedy like that one could happen again, but since then we have had the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims, the horrendous genocide in Rwanda and most recently Darfur. That is three well known examples of genocide in the last twenty years and each and every time the United Nations has failed to uphold what it was set up to do, each and every time our nations have stood by whilst these things have happened. Yet every year the United Nations and world governments have holocaust memorial day and reiterate this world promise that tragedies like this should never happen, but once this day has passed, so do these thoughts, and instead of upholding this promise, they become complicit with the evil they have sworn to get rid of for the past 60 years.
Read the book and see if you can understand how our leaders became so lost in their rhetoric that they forgot how to ever take action…
22 1 / 2012
Sunday Morning Thoughts
Another weekend pulls to close to a blistering end. And tomorrow we shall all be forced back into our various weekly activities, activities that mean some of us fail to interact with those few people we love the most, activities that are, for a lot of people, a complete waste of time.
None of us like to believe we are followers in a system, nothing more than robots filling in and out of our duties, but as the music from my headphones fades into another bass filled song and I walk towards the escalators of Highbury and Islington station, the click-clack of shoes against the cold underground floors, resembles that of a military march. I try to block it out by repeatedly clicking the plus button, on another tool of capitalism, but now the sound is looping in my head. Click-Clack, Click-Clack. Everyone walks in silent, devoid of personality, for a good few minutes frustration wants to escape me. I want to shake every single person walking down the escalators, obliterate their robotic routines. And then I get to the platform it all levels out again. My switch has obviously been flipped back to robotic, mindless, systematic, at least until my day is over.
Life..
Free will?
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15 1 / 2012
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
(Source: cryptolero, via timmyp10)
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15 1 / 2012
Forgive my constant frustration
And the bluntness in my words
my constant berating of humanity
the misanthrope that often lurks,
All I wish is for a more perfect union
for man, woman, boy and girl.
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15 1 / 2012
When you watch people dance, you see the loss of inhibition, an often euphoric type of freedom. For a lot of people it’s the only time they ever really lose their self-control. They let it all hang out, no shame, no embarrassment, their guard is let down, the walls are shattered, happiness fills them.
It’s kind of beautiful.
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