The spirit of humanity (#772)

For many years in my life we Americans have been immune to the real problems that the world has and is dealing with. Our shores have for the most part been secure from the outside dangers that are more prevalent on other continents. In a sense it has dulled our senses to the sharp resolve others on our planet have honed. We have become aware of the troubles others experience but somehow we feel we are above such things. Well, we are not and we had better awaken to that fact. By awaken, I mean for us to become more aware of "what" is happening and the "why" of it as well. There is mass poverty in our world and as such there is mass despair. When the concept of hope, is replaced with nothing to lose, the danger that radical intentions will rise to the thinking of the angry is eminently real. What has happened here, in America, instead is the cavalier attitude that we are not all interconnected. That somehow there are those who are not worthy of the respect of life and are to be ignored into oblivion. A selfish attitude has been stirred into the thinking of otherwise rational human beings and an ill wind of ideology is about to blow down a once formidable civilization. I hear the clarion call of returning to justice as a response to the deepening din of elitism. It is coming in the form of many thousands who fill the state capitol at Madison, Wisconsin. An awakening to the fact that not only are our social ideals, that we hold dear, are under attack but the very principles of fairness and justice as well. Not since the sixties have I felt such a rousing of our American spirit toward the humanity most all of us wish to see. Some do not and that is our dilemma but the powers of those few who would thwart us can be overcome through sheer volume of effort, not unlike the effort currently being shown in Wisconsin.