Giddy

Spending a week with my family in America was a great pleasure. It was worth the trip to spend time with my parents while they can still enjoy life. The handwriting is on the wall, as they say, and it will not be too long before they will be too infirm to do the things that bring joy to their life. So the cost and hassle of visiting them now was worth it.

As usual, when spending time in America, observing what was going on in society was a bit shocking. People were giddy, absolutely joyful, smirking, laughing and smug about what had happened to the most recently declared evilest man in the world, Libya's Coronel Kadhaffy.

With each gruesome report, I witnessed more nudging, more smirking, and more self satisfied moralizing. He was killed, so it justified the attack, even though the original stated goal of the military intervention was said to be establishment of a no fly zone so citizens could be made safe. Who cares, they said, when reminded of the fact.

As the horror increased, this persons hair pulled out into a bloody mess, the shooting death after having been captured, the corpse being paraded around on the hood of a car, and the dead body desecrated in the rectum with a knife, the volume of nervous laughter in America kept on increasing. I was encouraged to participate in the public celebration of smug self congratulation, but I met each offer to join the mob with my silence.

An empire, with its propaganda and violence, leads to a sick society. It affects nearly all, liberals, conservatives, Republicans, and Democrats (who MUST SUPPORT THE DEAR LEADER, without thinking for themselves ever). Of course, the evil Republicans stand by and complain that there isn't enough death and destruction, so let's attack Syria and Iran and wherever else.

When the empire falls, and it will, America will not only be ruined economically, but it will be a nation filled with a vast majority who have no sense whatsoever of a need for civilization, where the inherent dignity of human beings is respected.