Human Brilliance Rant

I've been thinking a lot lately, three years or more lately. What I'm thinking about is why our world is so crazy and backwards? Not even world, lets just focus on our own country. I have so many questions that no one can answer with any bit of logic or critical thinking going into their answer.

Why does the richest nation in the world have so many in poverty? without health insurance?

Why do human beings....the most amazing, wonderful, and beautiful creature in our know universe...why we enjoy watching other humans get shot, raped, blown apart, killed, murdered, hacked, and mutilated?

Oh, we don't enjoy that you say? Take a look at the top games for the PS2, XBox, and PC. They're mostly first person shooters. War games where it's fun, exciting and entertaining to go around shooting and blowing up fake people, that keep getting more real and "life-like" in their death. Also, take a look at the catch-phrases used to advertise for these games:

• "Psychiatrists say it is important to feel something when you kill. Feel the sensation. Feel the vibration. Feel the mutilation."

• "Join a biker gang and carry out malicious mischief."

• "Love thyself and plunder thy neighbor."

• "Meet people from all over the world, then kill them"

• "More fun than shooting your neighbor's cat"

• "As easy as killing babies with axes"

Some of the top grossing movies have included extreme amounts of horrific graphic details of humans doing the sickest things to each other.

And we enjoy this.

We give them Grammys, and the actors Oscars, we buy the DVDs and invite our friends over to watch and talk about how real the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan is.

Why do humans do this? Why do we relish and find entertainment in watching us kill each other? Isn't it enough that that's what we do in real life...every single day?

Action, horror, killing and violent movies are rated PG-13 and up. Although even some PG-13 movies are pretty violent...and our children watch them. Played Call of Duty lately? Games are increasingly accurate in their portryal of violence, blood, and gore...almost always done against other people.

Yet, if we are to show nudity on tv, or catch our children masturbating, we shame them, and hide from them part of what makes us all so beautiful: our bodies. Rape and sexual assult/molestation is rampant in this culture. I wonder why.

Could it be because we represe ourselves sexually, while doing nothing but fill our advertising and entertainment outlets with sexual titilation? And when part of a breast is seen during a halftime show..a woman's breast...that gives a child life through nourishing milk...people are outraged!! And pissed and upset..where's our morals and family values they shout!!

When did humans become so backwards and twisted around? Where is the love? The compassion and understanding?

Why do we enjoy killing ourselves?

Galloway Gets Twisted by CNN

I found this quite interesting and thought you may as it begs the question, yet again, what liberal media?

In reference to U.K. MP Galloway's comments before the Senate panel this morning, he said, "I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies."

As of 2:23pm (PST), on CNN.com, their headlines portray something quite different. On their main page, the link to the full story says "U.K. lawmaker: Oil-for-food charges 'a pack of lies'.""

And, when you go to that link here, the major thrust of his accusations are turned around. In between the third and fourth paragraphs talking about the oil-for-food scandal is the sentence :"He called the accusations against him "a pack of lies."" When, while disputing the allegations, he never referred to them as "a pack of lies."

That comment was reserved for the Senate's actions regarding the pre-war intelligence.

I called CNN and got routed to a Carolyn in the Public Information department who said she would pass my comment on and seemed rather indifferent about the whole situation. A comment was emailed as well.

How much more obvious do things need to be?