Windgate Vol. 242: The Sad March…
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[The Windgate Letters] – Volume 242 The Sad March… Good Morning … This week’s article is not directed at those on my private mailing list. Those dear people are some of the most progressive that I have found in the world. This week’s article is being directed, like it is so often, for the readers on the internet, and the web. For those who have not read The Windgate Letters before, or who have always taken exception to it in the past. This week’s article talks about a sad march that our world is taking, regarding the future of how we are going to behave in the world. All I ask of my private reading list is that they indulge me here. Now is the time when humanity needs to truly pull together…. For the last two weeks I’ve been talking about ethnocentrism and how this one aspect of humanity has brought our species to where we are now, with conflict going on in just about every nation in the world. And, for the most part, the world could care less about my efforts to fight for better human rights. When one looks at the internet one finds an unlimited amount of hostility, overt sexual activity, misrepresentation, lies, cheating, a kind of cartoon mentality, and a high degree of ethnocentric behavior. Very rarely does one find any place on the internet where the people engage in non-ethnocentristic behavior. And so, like it is on the internet, so it is in real life. The homeless around the world are being treated with more and more disrespect. The poor are being disparaged more. The Christian Coalition is trying to ram down everyone’s throat how everyone has to become Christian if they want to be true to their country. And this just names a few of the most disgusting behaviors. Look at our Congress. They are more concerned with fighting with each other than they are with trying to get along. And our President, President Clinton? Well, it now looks like he may be indicted for fraud! And this is our great society? This is what our collective kindness and warmth has brought us? No, it is not. Everywhere on the internet, just like in real life, there is a certain amount of hostility that lives and breaths right along with the messaging going on there. And there is competition. There is ethnocentrism, egocentrism, selfishness and rudeness. Then, with all of this, we are supposed to be happy? I think not. In our glorious collective madness that is taking over the world, we are all beginning to act like very spoiled brats. We demand this and demand that. We over react to all sorts of things while ignoring the real problems facing our world. We worry about a balanced budget while forgetting how many men and women are abused every year in the world. We worry about the cost of medical care while putting to the side the fact that most poor people have no medical care at all. So, in other words, we favor medical care for everyone, so long as they can pay for it. And for those who cannot.. well, let them die.. And this does not sound the least bit like Scrooge? Am I one of the only ones who is seeing this? I’ve worked my entire life to try and fight the selfishness in the world, and to try and help others to see how desperately humanity needs our love and our kindness. By looking at the state that the world is in right now you can clearly see how ineffective I’ve been. Or, how much I’ve been ignored. The Christian Coalition generally hates what I do in this article, because I stand for Gay Rights, Native American Rights, and even Jewish rights (naturally since I’m Jewish of course). Most of the internet readers who come across my articles find them boring, pedantic, and filled with the new advent garde term called "pycho-babble". This leaves only the real intellectuals to realize what I’m talking about and how dangerously close our world is to a type of collective self-destruction, and/or a global ruin. For the most part The Windgate Letters are either ignored, or laughed at. Then of course, when I am dead and gone, the world will not have these letters around anymore to laugh at. And the world will wonder where I’ve gone. The world will suddenly find a void where these letters used to be. And the world will not like that at all. Of course I’ve tried to warn the world of this too, and with no avail. The world just goes on becoming more and more selfish and ethnocentric. And we turn our heads and run toward our collective undoing. Do we collectively try and become more loving and tolerant of each other. No, we do not. South Africa is one prime example of how hateful people can be. The shootings there of the "colored" (malato) people has brought violence back to the level that existed prior to nation becoming a free society. And in Germany the Christians there hate any religion, that is not Christian, so badly that they are willing to kill those who oppose them. Thus, again, in a manner of speaking, we have a re-visitation of Nazi Germany taking shape. In the United States the people are so proud of their racism, hate, and prejudice that the country is becoming known as one of the most homophobic countries in the world. Not to mention that this dubious distinction also brings with it the equally honored trait of being one of the most ethnocentristic nations in the world. And this is truly where we want to be? Again, I think not. I’ve been homeless. I’ve lived in a cardboard box in an alley. I suffered the cold with only a tarp to keep me warm. I watched a little girl die right in my arms because the world could not care for her, and did not care for her. I’ve seen humans in the United States at their worst and their best. Far more often I’ve seen the US at their worst. The Whitewater scandal is an example of some in our government being more concerned with portraying others as liars than they are with trying to support our nation. And does this mean that I think Clinton is not guilty of Whitewater.. That’s right. I do. I think that much of Whitewater is a scandal that has been built by the Republicans in order to discredit the President. And that they are doing this solely because they hate the President that much. The key word there dear ones is ‘hate’. In my own city of Cleveland, Ohio the greedy rule the city. The rich and the powerful are so greedy for money and power that they could care less about those who are less fortunate, except when it does something in return for them. So every Thanksgiving and Christmas the people of Cleveland take out of mothballs their kindness and begin doing nice things for those who are less fortunate. The rest of the year the mind-set is… "Get away from me you slimeball.. I want my money, my life and don’t want anything to do with you". I can attest to this being a lesbian Jew. The reaction that I get all too often is that people don’t want to be associated with me, or to know me. They always ask how I am able to reconcile my being a lesbian Jew with the Bible. Like I’m supposed to immediately fall to my knees and then praise God for showing me the error of my ways? Not hardly. I’ve made peace with my God. I’m a lesbian. I’m living as one.. and I’m going to die one. My rabbi supports me and cares about me, even if most of the nation could care less, the same as how little most of the world cares for the poor. not to mention how the world cares for anyone else who do not meet certain expectations. Most of us in the United States are watching more and more violence on television, and in the theaters. We can’t seem to get enough of the blood and the gore.. the hate and the stereotypical. We seem to need it to fill some sort of inner desire. And, as I’ve written before, these scenes just heighten our sense of "Blood Fever" that has been around for centuries. Well, this is certainly a depressing fate for us all. But the beauty of what I am talking about here is that the images that I have portrayed here do not need to take place in real life. They do not have to exist. You see, while many of us tend to forget this in our individual lives, we do have choices. Every second we live we have choices. One choice that we have is to be kind or cruel. Another is to be prejudiced or not prejudiced. Another is to be homophobic or not. Of course most of us that live in the world ignore these choices, just the way that we have ignored our responsibility to try and help the world to truly be a better place for all humans. And being a better place is not making the entire world one religion. That’s not going to help anyone, other that Pat Robertson’s checking account. And through all of this it doesn’t take a genius to see that the world is heading for some major trouble if we don’t, collectively, start trying to behave better. And so I write this weekly article. I write to try to elucidate those who read The Windgate Letters, with the information that will help us all to be better people, for ourselves and each other. I talk about how discussing these problems with others will raise our collective awareness of these problems, and put us on the way to finding a cure for many of them. I talk about how it’s more progressive to be kind to those less fortunate than it is to treat them like they have some contagious disease. I talk about how perhaps it’s a bit wiser to not be so eager to rush to judgment of others.. and instead to try and be a bit more tolerant. And, like always, I am largely ignored by the general public. Either that, or I am thought to be crazy. Only the true intellectuals find any worth in what I am saying. Thus, these articles then become a practice of me preaching to the choir. And again very little happens in the world, to promote positive change. It’s as if we are going to have to wait until we are in the middle of a full scale destructive circumstance before we will open our eyes to the danger that exists in how we are behaving right now. And then it very well might be too late to do anything about it. The Windgate Letters, and my
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[The Windgate Letters] – Volume 242 The Sad March… Good Morning … This week’s article is not directed at those on my private mailing list. Those dear people are some of the most progressive that I have found in the world. This week’s article is being directed, like it is so often, for the readers on the internet, and the web. For those who have not read The Windgate Letters before, or who have always taken exception to it in the past. This week’s article talks about a sad march that our world is taking, regarding the future of how we are going to behave in the world. All I ask of my private reading list is that they indulge me here. Now is the time when humanity needs to truly pull together…. For the last two weeks I’ve been talking about ethnocentrism and how this one aspect of humanity has brought our species to where we are now, with conflict going on in just about every nation in the world. And, for the most part, the world could care less about my efforts to fight for better human rights. When one looks at the internet one finds an unlimited amount of hostility, overt sexual activity, misrepresentation, lies, cheating, a kind of cartoon mentality, and a high degree of ethnocentric behavior. Very rarely does one find any place on the internet where the people engage in non-ethnocentristic behavior. And so, like it is on the internet, so it is in real life. The homeless around the world are being treated with more and more disrespect. The poor are being disparaged more. The Christian Coalition is trying to ram down everyone’s throat how everyone has to become Christian if they want to be true to their country. And this just names a few of the most disgusting behaviors. Look at our Congress. They are more concerned with fighting with each other than they are with trying to get along. And our President, President Clinton? Well, it now looks like he may be indicted for fraud! And this is our great society? This is what our collective kindness and warmth has brought us? No, it is not. Everywhere on the internet, just like in real life, there is a certain amount of hostility that lives and breaths right along with the messaging going on there. And there is competition. There is ethnocentrism, egocentrism, selfishness and rudeness. Then, with all of this, we are supposed to be happy? I think not. In our glorious collective madness that is taking over the world, we are all beginning to act like very spoiled brats. We demand this and demand that. We over react to all sorts of things while ignoring the real problems facing our world. We worry about a balanced budget while forgetting how many men and women are abused every year in the world. We worry about the cost of medical care while putting to the side the fact that most poor people have no medical care at all. So, in other words, we favor medical care for everyone, so long as they can pay for it. And for those who cannot.. well, let them die.. And this does not sound the least bit like Scrooge? Am I one of the only ones who is seeing this? I’ve worked my entire life to try and fight the selfishness in the world, and to try and help others to see how desperately humanity needs our love and our kindness. By looking at the state that the world is in right now you can clearly see how ineffective I’ve been. Or, how much I’ve been ignored. The Christian Coalition generally hates what I do in this article, because I stand for Gay Rights, Native American Rights, and even Jewish rights (naturally since I’m Jewish of course). Most of the internet readers who come across my articles find them boring, pedantic, and filled with the new advent garde term called "pycho-babble". This leaves only the real intellectuals to realize what I’m talking about and how dangerously close our world is to a type of collective self-destruction, and/or a global ruin. For the most part The Windgate Letters are either ignored, or laughed at. Then of course, when I am dead and gone, the world will not have these letters around anymore to laugh at. And the world will wonder where I’ve gone. The world will suddenly find a void where these letters used to be. And the world will not like that at all. Of course I’ve tried to warn the world of this too, and with no avail. The world just goes on becoming more and more selfish and ethnocentric. And we turn our heads and run toward our collective undoing. Do we collectively try and become more loving and tolerant of each other. No, we do not. South Africa is one prime example of how hateful people can be. The shootings there of the "colored" (malato) people has brought violence back to the level that existed prior to nation becoming a free society. And in Germany the Christians there hate any religion, that is not Christian, so badly that they are willing to kill those who oppose them. Thus, again, in a manner of speaking, we have a re-visitation of Nazi Germany taking shape. In the United States the people are so proud of their racism, hate, and prejudice that the country is becoming known as one of the most homophobic countries in the world. Not to mention that this dubious distinction also brings with it the equally honored trait of being one of the most ethnocentristic nations in the world. And this is truly where we want to be? Again, I think not. I’ve been homeless. I’ve lived in a cardboard box in an alley. I suffered the cold with only a tarp to keep me warm. I watched a little girl die right in my arms because the world could not care for her, and did not care for her. I’ve seen humans in the United States at their worst and their best. Far more often I’ve seen the US at their worst. The Whitewater scandal is an example of some in our government being more concerned with portraying others as liars than they are with trying to support our nation. And does this mean that I think Clinton is not guilty of Whitewater.. That’s right. I do. I think that much of Whitewater is a scandal that has been built by the Republicans in order to discredit the President. And that they are doing this solely because they hate the President that much. The key word there dear ones is ‘hate’. In my own city of Cleveland, Ohio the greedy rule the city. The rich and the powerful are so greedy for money and power that they could care less about those who are less fortunate, except when it does something in return for them. So every Thanksgiving and Christmas the people of Cleveland take out of mothballs their kindness and begin doing nice things for those who are less fortunate. The rest of the year the mind-set is… "Get away from me you slimeball.. I want my money, my life and don’t want anything to do with you". I can attest to this being a lesbian Jew. The reaction that I get all too often is that people don’t want to be associated with me, or to know me. They always ask how I am able to reconcile my being a lesbian Jew with the Bible. Like I’m supposed to immediately fall to my knees and then praise God for showing me the error of my ways? Not hardly. I’ve made peace with my God. I’m a lesbian. I’m living as one.. and I’m going to die one. My rabbi supports me and cares about me, even if most of the nation could care less, the same as how little most of the world cares for the poor. not to mention how the world cares for anyone else who do not meet certain expectations. Most of us in the United States are watching more and more violence on television, and in the theaters. We can’t seem to get enough of the blood and the gore.. the hate and the stereotypical. We seem to need it to fill some sort of inner desire. And, as I’ve written before, these scenes just heighten our sense of "Blood Fever" that has been around for centuries. Well, this is certainly a depressing fate for us all. But the beauty of what I am talking about here is that the images that I have portrayed here do not need to take place in real life. They do not have to exist. You see, while many of us tend to forget this in our individual lives, we do have choices. Every second we live we have choices. One choice that we have is to be kind or cruel. Another is to be prejudiced or not prejudiced. Another is to be homophobic or not. Of course most of us that live in the world ignore these choices, just the way that we have ignored our responsibility to try and help the world to truly be a better place for all humans. And being a better place is not making the entire world one religion. That’s not going to help anyone, other that Pat Robertson’s checking account. And through all of this it doesn’t take a genius to see that the world is heading for some major trouble if we don’t, collectively, start trying to behave better. And so I write this weekly article. I write to try to elucidate those who read The Windgate Letters, with the information that will help us all to be better people, for ourselves and each other. I talk about how discussing these problems with others will raise our collective awareness of these problems, and put us on the way to finding a cure for many of them. I talk about how it’s more progressive to be kind to those less fortunate than it is to treat them like they have some contagious disease. I talk about how perhaps it’s a bit wiser to not be so eager to rush to judgment of others.. and instead to try and be a bit more tolerant. And, like always, I am largely ignored by the general public. Either that, or I am thought to be crazy. Only the true intellectuals find any worth in what I am saying. Thus, these articles then become a practice of me preaching to the choir. And again very little happens in the world, to promote positive change. It’s as if we are going to have to wait until we are in the middle of a full scale destructive circumstance before we will open our eyes to the danger that exists in how we are behaving right now. And then it very well might be too late to do anything about it. The Windgate Letters, and my
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