Moving Pictures

From the cave paintings at Lascaux or those near Santander in Spain to the Rock art in Australia and onto the modern use of moving pictures and a soundtrack that we call films and television, we have been captivated for thousands of years by visual storytelling, allowing us to feel a part of the tales we are told, I know for instance that for a while I was almost convinced that Todd Carty was h.i.v. positive even though that was his character in Eastenders, or I remember the feeling of coming out of the cinema after watching Dragon the story of Bruce Lee...  Let us remember how long the victors have been demonising their enemies and making themselves look good and the fact that using visual imagery can be a very persuasive tool to put forth a certain agenda, we allow ourselves to be forcefed a lot of propaganda when we sit down in front of the t.v. to watch the news or our very history as it is a story told by the winning side in any battle, for our very hearts and minds...  The world leaders suggest we are on the right side of the arguments they put forth for their way of seeing being and acting in the worlds trouble spots, they project onto us that we are in the right and others are in the wrong.  What if there is truth and lies on both sides though???  After all, two wrongs don't make a right...

Killing begets killing, there is just as destructive a male dominance culture in this part of the world as there is in so many others, where gansters masquerade as religious fanatics, business leaders, bankers, terrorists, and politicians...

Until we are able to think for ourselves and see the truth behind their lies we are all merely cannon fodder and collateral damage in the case of people in other places.

Would we put up with drone aircraft attacking and killing our citizens coming from some far off country thousands of miles away because they were our allies?

There is no sense in which if we are against our governments foreign policy that we are against our own country, or  with the foreign elements that collude with them, were created by them in the case of IS / ISIL / ISIS whatever you wish to call them

The terrorists whatever you want to call them, were the lesser of two evils at the time, armed and trained by the west to defeat the russians in afghanistan, saddam husseins weapons of mass destruction were sold to him by the west, iran's democratic leader was deposed by the west, the cia screw up every socialist country rather than see a communist threat on their doorstep it's all a big game, a control system designed to make us safe that only makes us less so right now.

What is the solution?  For one thing, to realise that empire building and resource wars are inevitable unless or until we take the money from the rich and share it around, unless or until we take the inequality in this world and make it right <3