Hate vs Reason: A Divided World Has a Sick Election

It's almost impossible for me to bear the news anymore because all I read and watch is dissonance in the world. Wars in Eastern Europe, in the not-so-far East; bombs, death, and suffering. Religious groups fight for who has the better imaginary friend, and other groups spread hate because each of them believes their political candidate is better than the candidate of the other side. One side is bedazzled by the idea of making a fictitious America great again, and the other side tries to unify a split public.

What strikes me about the American story is that people choose the worse side because of the situation of their economy and inflation. They don't realize that it's everywhere in the world right now, not only in the USA, and that factors like political policies influence these things. Obama's first few years handled the leftovers of the Bush administration. Then there came the time of stabilization, and just in the very end, things advanced for the better, so Trump inherited that, and things looked good in the beginning until COVID kicked in and all the dramas that came with it. The years after COVID were influenced by Trump's administration.

Things look bad now, and I can't say I don't feel it myself. Prices for everything are through the roof; the only thing that didn't rise was the wages and what we have in the pocket.

I shake my head about the America First idea, like cutting foreign ties even more or the import tariffs for everything produced outside the US. The problem with that is it will have the opposite effect: goods will be even more expensive because these countries will impose the same tariffs on American goods, and the effect for the US workers will be devastating. And who will be the winner? Not us small people, but the people that are already filling their pockets.

I'm not saying the other political side is better; the other side is the political arm of the establishment. Both sides act as the friend that only contacts you when they need something. What's it gonna be? The former lawyer and her posse of megastars, or the old sugar tongue and his billionaire friends? Both rich, both really don't care about my family or me. But if I learned one thing firsthand during COVID, I'd rather have a rational politician to prevent the worst from happening than a person that doesn't believe in a threat, invites it to my doorstep, and then chickens out and finds excuses how it wasn't his fault.

I was in the midst of it; I suffered, was sick, watching the death toll rise, feared for my life, was stressed, in disbelief. And right now, with all that's going on in the world, having this person and his team of yes-men in control over my family? I might exaggerate, but instead of being sick I see a nuke dropped on Iran, and the commander-in-chief tells us on TV, “These people will not retaliate us, we're the biggest and greatest country in the world,” playing it all down while nukes detonate in New York. Maybe I get arrested in a year for writing these lines or saying something that doesn't fit into the system. Anyway, at least we don't have to worry about money, taxes, and other material things anymore because it's either kaputt or I don't have any.

The world as we know it is out of balance and filled with refugees, good people that flee from their destroyed homes that were devastated by the actions of other officials, elected or not. And instead of finding solutions to stop this insanity, the best humanity comes up with is building higher walls, refusing people on borders, or coming up with other crazy ideas to stop the influx of humans that would destabilize their fragile economies that are weakened by financial packages to support a victory plan of a president that was once a good comedian and is now faced with stopping a military invasion of a dying megalomaniac that wants to fill the history books no matter with positive or negative stories.

This all makes me wonder. When OUR planet started to exist, we humans were not even on it. We arrived through evolution, and since we can hold a stick and throw stones we fought, first for food and caves. Later someone said, “This is my land now,” followed by others saying, “This is my land,” and all of a sudden some person said, “I'm your king now, and you're my subjects. I live in a huge castle, and you people work for me, and for that privilege you live in the mud.”

What if we explored the creativity in us and invented the arts first?

What if we said, “This is our planet, we're all humans; let's share it and just live in peace together”? I don't believe it's possible, because there is always the lazy person that doesn't want to work hard or develop any skills and finds it easier to take away what the weak person has, and for whom it is easier to destroy what others build instead of being part of the creation of something.

What would you do if I gave you a time machine?

Ask the question, and the general answer you'd get is either to travel back and get financial gain or kill someone bad like Hitler. But wait a minute, if you can travel forward and backward in time why would you need to kill someone? You just take them on your time machine and travel forward and backward with them in time; you don't need to kill anyone. Just catch Hitler before he gets into power and drop him with the dinosaurs.

I would travel back and stop people inventing ownership of lands and titles and put real team workers in charge. I would prevent people from killing each other by dropping the killers somewhere in time with the dinosaurs.

Why is the first thing we come up with to kill a bad actor if all you must do is to stop them from becoming a monster? Killing for any cause is not a solution.

And while we're so distracted by elections and wars and greed and envy, we treat our planet like we treat ourselves; we waste and destroy the place.

picture source: AI