nakedemperor

In America we have a luxurious life. Hot and cold running water, cable TV, cheap food in the market, pay per-view porn, what more could a hungry consumer ask for? Does it really matter that children go to bed hungry? I mean I don’t have to look at those children, I don’t have to listen to them cry. Out of sight out of mind; it really doesn’t matter a goddamn bit. I guess it doesn’t, I don’t have any reason you should give a shit. Am I my brother’s keeper? Aww hell no. I am a consumer not a social worker. Why should it bother me where the riches I live on, came from. That the US government has been using our military to secure valuable resources and that those resources make my life better doesn’t make me responsible. Does it? I mean I didn’t ask them to take Arbens out of Guatemala, I didn’t ask them to install the Shah of Iran, I didn’t ask them to take down Allende and I didn’t ask them to support Saddam Husain, I just paid my taxes and voted. So it aint on me. Right? Are we responsible for what our government does? Does our enjoyment of the luxuries that they have secured for us mean we have to think about how we got what we have? Doesn’t the fact that we have it, make it our manifest destiny? I really can’t say. I don’t even believe in Right and wrong, I think they are just theoretical constructs and as such have only the meaning we assign to them. So what meaning do you assign to the wealthy life you have? You are online right now and not scavenging for food… But hey you went to college and worked hard for what you have. I would never suggest that you didn’t. But does might make Right? If we can take it, then it Rightfully belongs to us. For that I have no argument. But I’m just curious would it be different if you had to listen to the hungry child cry its self to sleep?
In America we get our meet from the market where it comes in nice packages with no evidence of how it got there. We buy nice clothes that show no evidence of the 12yr old that made it during her 14hr day. We are living large in spite of our current so called recession. And as long as it’s good for us, it is good. That seems to be the philosophy. I really wish I had an argument against it… I just hear those kids crying every fuckin night. I am not able to shelter my consciousness from the unseemly parts of the world that made my life so goddamn nice. I feel responsible, I feel like feeding children matters, I feel like its more important to feed children than to chase “terrorists” around Afghanistan. I am out of step. BUT, I am also not afraid to voice what I believe in and say it in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which I believe it. Feeding children is more important than chasing terrorists. And I would sleep better if more of my taxes went to the former than to the later. But maybe that’s just me.