Couple more variety posts and continuation of the disaster series

Most TV ads are boring and bland. Some are irritating. Some are downright bad such as the one Jeff Goldblum is in for some apartment locator company. I like Mr. Goldblum as an actor, but him trying to be or play himself in this commercial is impossible to watch. In my opinion there are two really good ones out right now. The first is the Taco Bell commercial with the elderly couple in the car. If you haven’t seen it I do not want to give it away. The second is the old man getting some weird massage on the kitchen counter for some disinfectant wipes. So much of our consumer society revolves around this medium you would think there would be a much better job being done overall. Unfortunately, not so.

I am curious. Do people really believe the establishment Republicans really want to stop Obamacare? Do you really think so? Think about it: with all the effort being put into trying to derail it you would have thought there would have been some success in breaking it up. It won’t be. The medical industry is big business. The more people are insured the more they make in the long run. They know this, the Republicans just play this huge game, that a couple of candidates take too seriously, ramping up the ignorant portion of their base to get votes. Obamacare did nothing to over haul the medical business or really help the consumer. This is just another rouge to use the government to make more money out of the majority of us poor slobs. The President may have had some good intentions, but he failed.

And back to the disaster posts. I mentioned earlier how Islam is perpetuated by ignorance and poverty. Another way to look at this is the Western world came out of the dark ages and eventually over time developed a growing civilization, the general masses slowly became educated and there was some spread of wealth. I am not going to say a great civilization, but we still have a chance to reach new heights. The world ruled by Islam has been kept in the dark ages by individuals bastardizing a belief in God for their own benefit. These so called leaders never really developed a society. For the last thousand years or more, a large portion of the world has not moved forward, instead kept in the dark ages for the benefit of a very small group of people that had no desire to make their followers better.

Then came the oil boom which only exasperated the situation. Now a wealth divide has grown. So you have very poor ignorant people observe some people become rich, but they aren’t given the same opportunities, throw in a scapegoat (the West) and continue aggravating the situation over two or three generations as the differences become more glaring in the light of modern technology. Sure this is a simplistic description of the problem, but it does give a foundation as to why there is no easy solution to the problems in the Middle East and why the problems keep growing. The West has no answers and well unfortunately they have a stake in the problem for many reasons: one they helped create the modern version of the problem, two it is spreading towards the West and far East and will dramatically infiltrate modern life, three fighting the wars is a heavy cost burden to the taxpayers, four ignorance and poverty is a crime against humanity, and much more educated people than I have better broken this down in a variety of publications. The end result is no answer. No one politician can stand up and say I can solve this issue, yet over the next year and a half or so we will hear all sorts of hyperbole on how we need to get tough etc…

I once proposed on another forum that we need to recreate a radio free Europe type of approach, but this would be only one piece of the puzzle to just begin to resolve the situation. At best and I mean at very best it will take 2-3 generations to begin to move the bar in a different direction. Somehow someway, we need to find a way to get a message across there is a better world and hate is not the answer. And while we are trying just to create a message, we will be fighting a very entrenched message that will counter every move that is made to change the status quo.

And what will also compound this problem, there are powers that be in the West that want to continue with this downward spiral of hate in the Middle East. There are people who benefit from conflict who want these blood baths to continue. And this is just one group that is profiting off the insanity over there. Any institution or person that profits off of commodity prices, not just oil, also wants this malaise to continue.

It will take such a concerted effort to regain some control over the Western governments, by the people at large, so we can change how we approach the Middle East I fear we may never see a resolution. Right now it is hard enough to convince enough people in the United States they are being taken for a ride by our economic leaders to change policies here I do not see how we can take further steps to help the rest of the world. And these types of changes also need to play out in Europe. We do not need socialism or any other massive change in type of government, we just need the people in the Western Democracies to actually take on the responsibility of doing what they are suppose to do and that is become informed active participants in their countries. And if we don’t then lack of education and poverty will begin to overwhelm our side of the fence. And of course this finishes the circle and mankind may never reach the goals of enlightened world. Yes this is a bleak outlook, but one that can be overcome.

The next question is: how do we take back our world? Hopefully one day soon we find the leaders we need.