Bob Crespo

Poor people don’t get to decide when they will explain their actions to the police or make an appointment to surrender to the District Attorney. Those are not options available to the non-affluent.

Perusing the newspapers and internet news outlets, it seems the most earth shattering, stop-the-presses news story lately is Tiger Woods’ minor car accident outside the gated community where he has his giant mansion. Who cares? Its not like the guy’s a famous athlete or anything. All reports indicate the man is a golfer, for crying out loud, a game that even fat guys can master! So, the news-hungry public can be grateful for one more thing not to give a rat’s ass about. Well, there’s plenty of rewarding NOT CARING to be done lately. Here’s a look at other stories that seem to concern politicians and newsmakers no end but bore the crap out of the rest of us:

What will become of Afghanistan?: The nation that harbored the al Qaeda gang and gave them a base of operations to plan the 9/11 attacks? Not exactly a huge concern for most people, who realize that whenever America decides to finally abandon that intellectual and moral swamp that is dragging us down to their level, it will instantly revert to what it has always been: a loose confederation of bigoted, illiterate tribes that enjoys growing poppies for heroin, enslaving their women while the men romance teenage boys and playing polo with a goat’s head. Whoop-di-doo. And now that Osama bin Laden has moved across the street to Pakistan, there’s no reason in the world to waste another American life in this dusty outpost of the Bronze Age.

Will Lou Dobbs run for president?: Who gives a shit? The only ones happy to hear that are the Democrats, figuring to win the next election unanimously. The rest of us wonder why the Republicans keep throwing themselves under the bus with one lightweight ignoramus after another leading the charge into the death of the two party system. Palin, Limbaugh, Dobbs? Wow! What, they couldn’t get master speller Dan Quayle to come out of retirement? While it’s hard to pity a political party that’s basically a bunch of rich guys that have done a ton of damage to America in the past 30 years, you have to figure they’ve surrendered in the War on Drugs and have gone all Cheech and Chong on us. In a bizarre role-reversal, now it’s the aging hippies that wonder what the conservatives have been smoking and why they’re acting so goddamned weird. And they’ve got a point. You’ve got to be pretty damned high to think Lou Dobbs or Rush Limbaugh make any sense. Like our heads weren’t spinning enough already…

Will Dubai go broke?: Who? Where? How many rich guys in robes calling themselves princes live there? Isn’t that the Rhode Island-sized sandbox of a country that thought it would be a great idea not to waste their money on sustainable industries and education for their people but instead build mile-high towers and artificial islands made of (!) sand where they would build thousands of luxurious condominiums for wealthy Eurotrash whose lifestyle by definition violates every law in their country? Now there’s some sound planning for a nation’s future, eh? And the rest of the world is supposed to be concerned about these assholes? Looks like they’ve broken into the Republicans’ stash of powerful hallucinogens. There’s nothing that gets us flipping to the funny pages or the sports section quicker than (non)stories like this.

Should the 9/11 thugs be tried in New York?: Of course they should, Chester! That’s where they committed their crimes, something like 2,800 counts of murder. Oh, but some of us are afraid of reprisals? So fucking what? Some of us are afraid of mice too. Should we ban mousetraps so the other mice don’t take revenge on us? America has about as much chance of being conquered by mice as by al Qaeda, and only a jackass would volunteer to surrender our rights and freedoms because the mice might might get angry. You break the law, you get arrested, given a fair trial and get either acquitted or convicted. Period. There are no “special cases” when it comes to murder. Either you did it or you didn’t do it and a jury decides what’s what, not the Chicken Littles of this world, afraid of the sky falling when mice are caught in a trap. Try the 9/11 thugs in the city they attacked, and don’t elevate them to the status of anything other than vermin by abandoning the fair legal system that separates us from rodents. Put the trial on TV too, we’ve got noting to hide. Nothing these rodents can say will change anything, either what they did or how anyone feels about shit stains like them. Who cares who’s afraid of mice? They messed with this town, and this town should deal with them.

A good example of poetic justice is when a shrill, preachy fitness nut gets hit by a beer delivery truck while jogging to the health food store.

Sometimes you watch life’s rich pageant and gape in wide wonder. There sure is a hell of lot going on in this world, a bazillion things to do and see and taste and touch and experience, some of them really cool. Other things? Not so much. No biggie, that’s why they make chocolate and Cherry Garcia. One man’s meat, and all that. There are some things, however, pretty much everybody wants to seriously avoid. Things like this:

Face tattoos: What seemed like a fine idea when you were young, adventurous and blind drunk might not feel like such a brainstorm at that job interview, or your daughter’s wedding.

Steroids: If you are not a professional athlete with a serious shot to make $15 million a year, taking steroids only makes you one more angry, lumpy jackass with shrunken testicles. Good luck with that whole deal.

Pacific Rim ferries: If you find yourself traveling in the Far East, avoid those 1,000-plus passenger ocean-going ferries. It seems like a month doesn’t go by without one of those overloaded, under-maintained bad boys sinking with massive loss of life. There’s sharks in those waters, too, so not only do you drown, you’re Jaws bait.

Any “Extreme” Sport: As if snowboarding isn’t dangerous enough, now you want to jump off a rocky cliff into a bottomless abyss? Don’t worry, Spike, we’ll send flowers.

Psychiatrists: Unless you enjoy taking powerful sedatives until you’re a personality-free zombie and talking about things like “empowerment” and “finding your center” (which pretty much mean nothing at all but sound helpful), avoid these maladjusted creeps. Those people are crazy!

People delivering detailed instructions from God: Possibly the only people nuttier than psychiatrists and more full of rules for the rest of us to live by, and even more devoid of tolerance, reason or love. Take a detour around these fools, too.

Ostrich meat: Even hyenas only kill and eat those things when they run out of rotten carcasses to scavenge.

Karate lessons: If you’re planning to fend off Ninja assassins anytime soon, check the calendar. Firearms were invented a really long time ago. And if you think you’re fooling anyone that you’re learning to fight only to “keep in shape,” why not go swimming or something? Hard as it is to believe, not everyone is an ardent admirer of all that kicking and chopping.

Taking polls: Why bother to encourage people with a political axe to grind by taking one of their polls loaded with questions that are impossible to answer in a way that does not confirm your agreement with their idiotic, aggressive agendas, such as: “We should take which of the following actions against Iran: (A.) carpet bomb their cities, (B.) Kill all their leaders, (C.) Invade, conquer, pillage and build a pipeline from their oil fields to U.S. soil, (D.) poison their water supply and salt their fields, (E.) All of the above plus any other diabolical acts we can think of.”

Real Estate Seminars: Life is too short to waste time on get-rich-quick schemes where the only guy getting rich is the joker you just paid 150 bucks to hear brag about his Jacuzzi, his Porsche and his retarded ex-model wife.

The Green Gestapo: While it is smart and proper to recycle, avoid waste and pollution and to respect our environment (in brief, don’t shit where you eat), avoid the fanatics who would have us employed full time eating only locally grown vegetation, surrendering our leather shoes, belts and down-filled parkas while bicycling everywhere we go. Don’t waste your breath trying to convince them that science and technology actually work and a varied diet of flora and fauna is what enabled us to evolve from puny, filthy and disease-ridden scavengers to robust, long-living creatures able to adapt to any conditions, even the sad state of affairs of having to tolerate their counterproductive asses.

Meals for $1.99: Usually these meals are worth every bit of the 2 bucks you fork over to swallow mystery meat and grease-sponges disguised as potatoes. The money you save can be applied to that quadruple bypass you’ve always dreamed of.

Jaegermeister: Whatever sort of alcoholic beverage Jaegermeister is, and no one is really quite certain, there seems to be an ingredient in it that ensures maximum embarrassing behavior to go along with its gagging-sweet taste. Have your cell phone camera charged and ready to take lucrative blackmail photos the next time you hear the phrase “shots of Jaeger all around!”

Anyone nicknamed “Bonecrusher”: Odds are this is one guy you don’t want to get excited.

The Joke Police: Only our black comedians had the nerve to hang onto the only good thing about racial tension; ethnic jokes, a lot of which are hilarious and insightful. The rest of them have obeyed the humorless cretins who took it upon themselves to decide what is and isn’t proper to laugh at. Fuck them. We’ll decide what’s funny to us, and what crosses the line, thank you very much. How about some jokes about these PC assholes, like how many of them does it take to screw in a light bulb? Seven. One to actually install the bulb and six to make sure that unpleasant truth never sees the light of day.

Polka dot bow ties: Only clowns and unreasonable people wear them.

Man purses: See above.

Pre-fab homes in Florida: They don’t call southern Florida “Hurricane Alley” for nothing. The next time Mother Nature huffs and puffs and tries to blow your house down you can be at least as smart as that third Little Piggie and surround your wrinkled, sun-baked ass with brick and mortar, or smarter still and move someplace safe, finally figuring out that any place where you need hurricane-proof shutters and doors isn’t exactly an ideal environment for creaky old codgers on Mobility Scooters. Sounds like a paradise for Extreme Weather Reporters, though, that breed of junior newscasters who love nothing more than bellowing over the howling din of nature’s wrath while nimbly dodging flying retirement homes, palm trees, poodles and other small mammals.

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Is there a bigger bunch of failures in human history than religious leaders? If it wasn’t for their legacy of promoting fear, ignorance, torture, oppression, murder, warfare, ignorance and suffering, they’d be hilarious. Their take on God as a megalomaniacal schizophrenic would be a comic’s gold mine if not for the evil they fostered. The idea that a human incapable of comprehending the workings of the mind of a dog, or even a frog for that matter, can speak authoritatively on the mind and the intentions of God, by definition the most complex and incomprehensible mind of them all, is funny as hell.

Not only that, they would have us believe that the only reason humans have to be good to one another is that God commands it, thus rendering our inborn human goodness a forced and artificial impulse, an optional kindness on our part instead of the grave duty that it is for our survival. Now that’s funny!

When the only reason to be good to people is because it’s a religious rule, then if other people follow a different religion, that rule becomes more of a loose guideline, if that. Then it’s only a short mental walk to burning them at the stake, conquering their land, stealing their stuff, ravaging their women and destroying their civilizations. These things are almost always done in the name of God.

Consider these contradictory teachings that only compel reasonable and moral people to leave God out of the equation when it comes to doing what’s right:

•God is an all-merciful, forgiving being who loves and cherishes each of us deeply. And if you don’t return his love, perform time-consuming, uncomfortable rituals and keep him on your mind at all times he will smite you with plagues and condemn you to a lake of hell fire for all eternity. Ouch. Sounds like a candidate for powerful medication.

•Here’s a Promised Land for you, my Chosen Ones, a land of milk and honey that will be yours forever. Oh, by the way, there’s people living there now. I’m going to need you to slay them down to the last man, woman and child, and their farm animals too, which you can then sacrifice to me in a very long, elaborate and wasteful ceremony. Then inhabit their cities and steal their farms. Be a dear and do that for me, willya, Chosen People? Those infidels are really starting to grate on my nerves.

•Jesus Christ was a Jew, often called rabbi by his disciples. He died a Jew, too, and Christianity is basically a reformation of Judaism. So, what better way to celebrate Jesus’ Jewishness than by centuries of oppression, murder, and exile of Jews by Christians! C’mon, Yids, it was all a joke! Get it?

•The word Islam means “peace.” A thorough examination of the Koran has so far failed to find the passage that says “Only kidding!” In the jihadists defense, however, there are no specific instructions from God not to strap explosives to your body and blow yourself up on a crowded school bus.

•The Hindu religion regards violence, even against one’s oppressors, as a demonic quality. They do, apparently, make liberal exceptions in the case of the minority Muslim population in India, whom they savage on a regular basis, and the Muslim nation of Pakistan, with whom Hindu Indian armies have fought several bloody wars and uncounted border skirmishes. Now that that pesky non-violent scold Gandhi is dead, all bets are off!

•After centuries of dispersal, inquisitions, pogroms, oppression and the Holocaust, Jews returned to Israel in 1948, once again having a place to hang their yarmulkes. But, just like the first time they showed up in the Holy Land, there were people already living there, a lot of non-Jews who had been there for many centuries. Well, no prob, Bob! We’ll just co-exist, the non-Jews existing in poverty behind barbed wire while we exist in your former houses and farms, and deny you citizenship in your homeland. Don’t make a tsimis! At least we’re not slaughtering you to the last man, woman and child like the good old days! And you even get to keep your farm animals for transportation! Nothing warms the heart like seeing a people emerging from 2,000 years of oppression becoming oppressors themselves in a single generation. Well done, God guys!

•Then there’s the real buffoons, the born-again Christian Fascists of the good old U.S. of A! Is there anyone they don’t hate in the name of a loving God? Is there any nation they don’t want to destroy in the name of the Prince of Peace? Is there any stronger reason to be grateful to our wise Founding Fathers for mandating a separation of church and state now that these former outcast loners and shopping mall-wandering Jesus freaks have somehow organized themselves and gotten into politics? When their leaders pray to an all-merciful and loving Christ and shed crocodile tears for the benefit of their numbskull followers, then demand that our government torture Muslims, deny civil rights to non-Christians and drop bombs on everybody, is there any better comedy theater out there? Black comedy, to be sure, but pretty funny if that’s your cup of tea. Coming soon to a theater near you: “Kill Your Way To Heaven!”

The worst kind of genius is a military genius. The smarter the guy is, the more people get slaughtered. Even worse, he gets to be admired, and now you’ve got a bunch of statues of this sadistic butcher handy even when he’s dead to remind us of how stupid we were to follow his bloodthirsty ass.

Well, so much for the new millennium, fresh starts, new ages and all that flowery bullshit we all bought into when the calendar changed from 1999 to 2000. We’re closing in on our first decade into the 21st Century and the story in a nutshell is MOTSOS, short for More Of The Same Old Shit. Better yet, MOTSOSS, More Of The Same Old Stupid Shit. Forget about any new age of brotherhood and the slight incremental improvements in racial or ethnic relations within various nations.

As a whole, the nations of humanity are hating and killing each other just as zealously as always, and it’s only the presence of nuclear bombs that prevents us from starting another good old World War to really let each other know how much we get on each others’ nerves. Nothing says “fuck you!” like a sending in the Marines.

Here in America we were so proud to have finally elected a black man to be our president, but that pride is merely a refection of the shame that it should be such a big deal in the first place. We didn’t do anything wonderful or progressive, we simply elected the smartest guy who was running for president that particular year, as logic and intelligence would dictate. Let’s not get all weepy or get injured patting ourselves on the back over something that should be routine and automatic.

Let’s see how wonderful we all are if our black president isn’t such a great leader, only a run-of-the-mill president. Hell, we’ve elected a whole bunch of white mediocrities through the years and never gave a second thought to supporting another dim bulb with a loud mouth to replace the previous dim bulb with a loud mouth who didn’t work out all that well.

When we can do the same with blacks, other minorities and women, maybe we’ll be getting somewhere, but we sure ain’t there yet. If we were, the color of the president’s skin wouldn’t mean jack shit, only his or her abilities and ideas would matter. Speaking of president’s ideas, it’s seems our current president can’t figure out how to get out of a war we won eight years ago when we invaded Afghanistan, overthrew their government and annihilated their armies.

That’s winning a war by anybody’s definition. It seems the Afghanistan government was giving asylum and a base of operations to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist gang al Qaeda that attacked America so devastatingly on 9/11/2001. That was no army that handed America that defeat but a criminal gang, yet humanity in general and America in particular had no other response to criminal gangs other than powerful military forces wreaking destruction on a backward nation, the vast majority of whose citizens had no idea what the hell was an al Qaeda or a bin Laden.

They worried more about their goats and poppy crops than jihad, or at least they did until we crushed their government and occupied their nation for 8 long years. Now, thanks to our idiotic refusal to to accept victory, there’s no shortage of militant jihadists, mostly illiterate bozos who couldn’t find America on a map. These are basically the same people who outlasted Alexander the Great’s occupation of their nation in 330 B.C. and dozens more “conquerors” that left them unchanged as a people. Why we got it into our heads that Afghanistan can become our 51st State is a huge mystery.

Of course it didn’t help that our president at the time was so fucking stupid that a year or so later he invaded another country that wasn’t even our enemy simply because he believed the lies that the Big Oil corporations spread about Iraq so they could steal their petroleum. So his puppet masters fostered fear and hatred of Muslims in order to justify another invasion, another foreign army annihilated, another sovereign government toppled and a whole bunch of our own precious young soldiers and uncounted Iraqi civilians getting slaughtered.

In Iraq we even hung their leader for good measure, just in case there was a chance of getting out of there with an apology and reparations for wrecking the place by mistake. Of course, invading the wrong country is about as big a boneheaded mistake as any leader can make, but being that we are America in possession of enough nuclear bombs to destroy this planet and the rest of the planets orbiting our sun, including the disenfranchised Pluto, we had a shot of getting out of the place without any retaliatory invasion of our own nation.

But nooo, we had to disband their army and abolish every civic arrangement they had for governing their own nation, just like we’re trying to do in Afghanistan, to start from scratch and try to build mini-Americas without any actual Americans or admirers of America living in these places. Could we be any stupider? Now our government wants to send more troops to Afghanistan rather that simply abandoning the place to their own devices and let them think long and hard about harboring any terrorist criminal gangs in the future.

Of course any time anybody sends in troops they say they are doing it for “peace.” For peace? Armies? If you want to send in people to promote peace, the last group of people you want to send in is the Marines, dammit! Those are not umbrellas those guys carry around everywhere they go, those are high-powered rifles, for crying out loud! Send belly dancers, comedians, plumbers, accountants, anybody but the Marines if peace it what you seek. Military forces have but one function in society, and that is to fight our wars. And when you send in the Marines to promote peace, then you are saying that it is okay to kill for peace. How crazy is that?

Being that we are the leading superpower in the world, our example is well-noted by killers and conquerors everywhere, and outside of Australia and Antarctic, there are wars, hate-fueled genocide and terrorist campaigns raging on every continent and archipelago. Talk about MOTSOSS, and America is right in the thick of it by perpetuating two wars we won years ago. What, do we have to re-defeat these two poor slobs nations constantly to show what badasses we are? That’s not just fucking stupid, it’s plain evil.

Then there are those geniuses among us who want us to withdraw our armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan only so we’re in good shape to invade (!) Iran, another nation that is not our enemy. Presumably we’ll be killing for peace there too. Probably dismantling their government and army and ensuring civil chaos and insurgency so that we can keep sacrificing a bunch more of our dedicated young soldiers for no reason at all for years to come. Anyone espousing these ideas in our Congress, the Pentagon or any of our other halls of power should be enthusiastically beaten with sticks about the head and neck until they shut the fuck up.

We’ve already soiled the first 10 years of our brand new millennium with all our petty hatreds and earnest butchery. Let’s not completely fuck up the remaining 990 years. There’s no law that says we have to keep repeating More Of The Same Old Stupid Shit until we run out of excuses not to grow up and cut out all the insane killing and hatred. Then just maybe someday nobody will send in the Marines to do a job that was meant for people who don’t carry firearms. We just might surprise ourselves one of these days by growing a pair of balls and saying NO to war and hatred, and then pimp-slapping the war mongers silly.

No one walks alone. May you have interesting company on your journey through life and be able to give and receive all the love you possibly can.

Have you looked around, lately? Not that all that much looks dramatically different, only that everything seems, well… more so. Most noticeable is that there’s a whole lot more people around these days. Seems we’re closing in on 7 billion of us sharing this spinning top we call the Earth. Not that that’s any sort of species record, since in any given acre of ground there’s more insects than there are people in the world, but who notices all those bugs but entomologists, farmers and little boys? But as of yesterday, there’s 6.79 billion humans dancing their part in the World Ballet, and that’s not even counting the illegals (Okay, it is counting the illegals, but I figured I’d throw that in to see who’s paying attention).

That’s a hell of a lot of people, and forget about remembering everyone’s first name, those days are gone. When in doubt, however, you can always call some guy you never met Mohammed or Jack, since they’re the world’s two most popular male names, and have the best chance of getting it right. For ladies, the #1 name these days is (!) Emma, having shoved aside Mary some time in the past decade. Since most of us don’t know any Emmas, you have to wonder who’s naming all those kids, and if there’s a whole country somewhere where every little girl is named Emma.

Well, Emma, Jack, Mary, Mohammed or Lorenzo, we’re filling up this world quick. Already one in five of us is Chinese, and one in six is Indian, with both those nations topping a billion people. America has almost 310 million, probably closer to 330 million with the illegal immigrants (officially counted or not, they’re here to stay, so deal with it, Mr. Dobbs). So we’ve got plenty of company in this world and in this life. It’s like the old blues song says: “It’s the same all over, there’s people everywhere you go.” Might as well make the best of it, get to know the neighbors and try to get along a little better than we have been, for like, forever.

When you live in New York City, it feels like there are no foreign countries. Other countries, sure, but foreign? No way, since in this town you’re bound to run across people from everywhere you can think of, either directly or by ancestry. And ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you find out they’re okay, just regular people doing their best, trying like anyone else to get by in this world, keeping their families safe and warm and doing what’s right. Then you read the newspapers and find out that we’re still at each other’s throats all over the world, one war after the next, and you wonder what the hell for.

Then you find out that 36,000 people die of starvation every single day on a bountiful planet and you grieve, and wonder how we can abandon 13 million of our brothers and sisters to an early grave every year, most of them small children. We don’t have that many people that so many of us are spares to be discarded. What can we do about this? And the crazy wars too? With almost 7 billion people around we’re getting a little too close to keep up this nonsense; the wars, the genocide and the silent slaughter of starvation. Do we chalk this up as human nature? That’s a pretty depressing thought, and one that should be dismissed.

There is a better way. That better way is already within each of us and it is called love. There is no more powerful force on the planet, no more universal experience. The problem is that we apply our love selectively, as if it was a limited resource, when in fact it is limitless, renewable and easily multiplied to meet any situation. When a family who loves their children has another child, does not the entire family’s love expand to include the newborn baby, to love and cherish that child every bit as much as the others? Of course they do, and when their children marry and bring their spouses into the family, the love expands yet again to include them and the precious grandchildren they bring.

We can do the same with our love regarding all of humanity, each and every precious and unique human being on Earth. We would never dream of attacking and killing our loved ones, nor would we let them live lives of disease, starvation, illiteracy and severe hardship. Some nations have the means and the personnel to help solve the World Starvation Emergency, not only the immediate task of feeding the hungry and saving lives, but providing long-term solutions through agricultural education, building lasting food infrastructures and purifying precious water supplies. There is no new technology that needs to be invented, only a new awakening of love for our own brothers and sisters, all 6.79 billion of them.

Call this a hopelessly naive notion if you like. Is the way we have been treating one another preferable to love, peace and brotherhood? Point out our grand traditions of slaughter and repression if you disagree. We’ve pretty much exhausted all the combinations of international cruelty, barbarity and disregard for human life. How has that worked out for everybody? Can we reach the point where we stop using the words “military” and “genius” in the same sentence? That’s nuts, as loony a notion as nicknaming those mass slaughterers “The Great.” Do we keep batting our heads against the wall forever, expecting different results? That’s one of the textbook definitions of insanity, and we are not an insane race of beings. We are, however, a blind race of beings in many respects, blind to our oneness and our responsibilities to humanity as a living whole.

We have evolved from contentious tribes of scavenging nomads squabbling and killing over the more bountiful tracts of primordial real estate into modern human beings living in complex, sophisticated societies capable of doing wondrous things and providing comfort and safety to individuals superior to any time in our history. And yet (there’s that And Yet again!) we retain far too many of our old destructive habits and ingrained animosities. It is long past time to evolve further, to abandon the aggression towards our fellow human beings that has brought nothing but pain into our already difficult lives. Can evolution be consciously effected? Can we make it happen?

The answer to that is YES. Love is the answer, and love can help us evolve. Not love of money, or love of power or love of your idea of God. God’s not weighing in on this question one way or another, and any time somebody claims to have spoken to God, the result is almost always death and destruction for hapless innocents. No God would have anything to do with killing in his name, so religion is not the solution, at least not the way it has been applied since beyond memory. More often than not it is religion that has been the cause of our killing problems, with human beings trying to prove that their invisible God is real and the other guy’s invisible God is not real, prove it by killing, torturing and brutalizing one another. Is it any wonder that God chooses to remain invisible while we behave in this manner?

But love is very real, and there is not a human being alive who has not felt its power, has not been transformed by love or who has not loved another deeply and unconditionally. Very few humans have actually taken the life of another, but too few of us have objected strongly enough to make it stop. When a soldier from your society kills, or a government from your society executes an offender, they do it in your name, and by extension, at your behest. The blood and the indifference to human suffering is on all our hands, it is our fault as a race of beings. Only love can stop the slaughter, only love will feed the hungry and only love will bring us peace. We’ve  tried again and again and again to kill our way out of our problems, only to see them deepen, leading to more gruesome death. Time to stop batting our heads against that wall.

There’s a hell of a lot of people around, more and more every day. Let them be born into a world that welcomes them, a joyous world that celebrates them, that cares about their well being and loves them deeply. Let us be the ones to fill the world with love. The next step for humanity is within our grasp.