The elephant in the ....

Some where in the last month or so I have developed a lack of inclination to censor what I am really thinking. I guess the realisation that we are living in a dangerous time regarding world peace and religious tolerance has finally give me the kick to stand up for what I believe in.

Now I not going to start off on the evils of one religion verses another, apart from being totally inoffensive it actually achieves nothing,  religion doesn't make wars man makes wars. Using any religion hide behind and justify any action is actually cowardice. I have my own beliefs and ones I am not prepared to inflict on anyone. But what I do get irate about is the lack of humanity we the human race are showing to one another. To be honest whether you worship God, Allah, Buddha or little green men, it means nothing if you are prepared to sit on your tail and allow other humans to die from pandemics we could have prevented, pollution we created or wars we all have opinions on.

But how many of us are prepared to glance at the media in what ever form, commentate and then settle back down to our dinner regardless. Thinking a few uttered words is enough. Well guess what folks, its not,  the dangers have got all to real for us to just blame the government's shrug our shoulders and carry on as normal. Mainly because normality as we have known it is crumbling beneath our feet. I am not suggesting we oust our government in some medieval ritual or worse, but instead use our voices and opinions to kick the people who represent us, use our votes to make sure we are heard. Even vote by what we buy and where we buy it from, to ensure we are not financing what we don't believe in.

One man alone can not change the world, but he can sow the idea of possibilities, it's been done before Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln to name but a few have all done it, Gandhi did it bare foot without a weapon or shoes. In fact history has prove time and time again, it only takes one voice of reason to kick butt  and get world United.  Guess we are back to needing that, in a time when we are faced with the biggest mass migration of displaced people since the second world war, an epidemic threating the whole of the American continent,  weather and geological activity that thinks nothing of destroying cities, are we really in a position to sit and navel gaze.

I always wanted to be in the public eye,  not so much because I wanted the approval of the masses, although the high of a good performance beats any high I have ever found, but instead to have a voice people would listen to, a power and finances to enable the injustice of the world to be rebalanced. I am struggling daily to accept that there is nothing I can do, whether it be another migrant drowning,  a disabled person losing all self respect to a over paid member of government  or child born with life destroying disability because they were unfortunate enough to be born into poverty.

Yet else in the world we throw away hundreds of pounds of food daily, whine about a ridiculous settlement for a minor hiccup, or complain it takes an extra 10 minutes to get to work, because some one has actual got round to repairing a road. Have you actually watched the bodies in bags, historic buildings destroyed and other horrors that plague our daily existence.

Some wise person whose name, escapes me said the pen is mightier than the sword, and as a whole I agree with this, I have mealy replaced my pen with a keyboard. Nothing is ever achieved by just blowing things up and worse, it takes brains, education even to develop tolerance,  chemistry for vaccination and so on. Unfortunately it also takes money, and that is the hard bit for all of us. But let me put it this way, is it not easier to donate to something like water aid or what ever you believe in £3 a month (ie 1 takeaway coffee), than face the horrid realisation that if we continue down the path we are on, whole nations will be wiped out, and if we get further into the war that's brewing rationing will have to return for nations to continue to survive.

I know it's not an easy read, and , but it's not meant to be. Sometimes it's a question needs to be raised, and guess what I just have.