Syrian
vote! We’ll be doing some killing again. Cannot be avoided, apparently. Or
perhaps it could have been avoided, but the politicians of today couldn’t avoid
it; miss out on the opportunity, sort of speak? ‘Politics is a ‘brutal’
business’ we’re told. I guess we should admire them? Aren’t they special? Here
we are, ordinary mortals, objecting to murdering innocent people, but they, the
politicians, are ‘strong’ enough to get on with it; in fact, they can get on
with it with smiles and laughter. It is really a frightening sight. I’m all for
stiffer-upper-lip, but to have a stiffer-upper-lip you have to feel something.
They look as if they feel nothing at all. What’s worse, it seems they’re
looking down on anything that makes humans human and not just animal.
As an
activist, involved in community, chatting to ordinary people a lot, I’ve
noticed that generally people are increasingly valuing ‘human’ qualities. Just
recently there was a German advert about family and Christmas, a normal advert
about an old man who just wants to see his children and he plays a rather cruel
move to get them to come. People all over Europe loved it. Made them cry. I can
see why? I’ve seen how much they miss their own parents. I’ve seen parents long
for their children. But hey, so long as the department for statistics is
showing that we are happier than ever before, that’s really all that matters.
So, era of
wars and people longing for a ‘human touch’ – that’s how I would define our
world which I am increasingly ashamed of; I hate the thought of what we’ll
leave to our children, especially if things get worse. At the same time
politicians are almost proud to be brutal. Can we see a connection? Surely it
is not hard to connect the dots, see how this came about, and what needs to change
if we don’t want to F up completely – I’m thinking with the weapons we have
today, it’ll be a frigging nightmare.
Anybody
still remembers Princess Diana? Gosh, we liked her, didn’t we? Could it be the ‘human
touch’? Surely we haven’t been trying to get our politicians to see the ‘Importance
of being human’ for so long, yet they completely missed it? How could that be?
Has the world of politics become a world of its own and nothing to do with us
except for the charade called ‘the pre-elections campaign’?
