Sunday, January 24, 2016

Frustration and hopelessness

Lynchings and immolations in Mexico, bludgeonings in India, stabbings in China and Israel, terrorism in France, mass kidnappings in Africa, political killings in Venezuela, forced starvation in Syria, stonings in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump in America. The list is  almost endless.

To me, so much of this brutal behavior is a consequence of the disenfranchised having no voice, no hope. What can we expect in a world in which wealth is so disproportionately spread, when power is a epedemic, when status is the measure of importance, when false heroes abound, when media spin blocks out truth, when the voices for the poor and for justice and equality are so easily silenced?

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