The song says, “what the world needs now is love,” but we may have gone way beyond that. Love is a natural emotion that comes and goes as situations change, but usually becomes easier to muster when things are going well and the world seems to be a beautiful place.
Haven’t posted anything in a while because it just didn’t seem worth it with all the propaganda going on. It felt like a losing battle to add my two cents into the fray on this little blog. I thought, “why would anyone trust what I have to say when all this spinning was going on in the media and in the halls of Congress?”
As I thought harder about it, it dawned on me that what’s wrong in the world, I mean the real underlying problem is a severe lack of trust. Or perhaps to put it even clearer . . .
What the world needs now is something to trust in!
It’s so great when the majority of the world’s population rallies around a tragedy, like what happened in Haiti. It shows we really do have it in us to come together and work for a particular cause when the situation at hand is real.
Tragedies, although terrible, are trustworthy. They can’t be faked on such a scale, and so people know for sure anything they do to help will actually make a difference for the victims. The magnitude of the help provided in these types of situations also tell us how much people want something trustworthy enough to participate in.
However, when we turn our attention away from places like Haiti and Louisiana after Katrina, what else is there to trust in?
From religion, to government, and right down to the products we need to survive, all we get is spin, corruption, and deceit. It’s gotten to the point where most people expect to get screwed over every time they get out of bed.
It’s going to take a while to get us to the mindset where we can trust again, but “something’s gotta give,” and someone big is going to have to step up and begin putting people ahead of profit.
