Summary

The provided text is a reflection on the nature of war, hypocrisy, and societal complacency, emphasizing the lack of justification for war and the role of media and personal comfort in perpetuating conflict and ignorance.

Abstract

The author of the article expresses a deep concern over the global indifference to wars happening around the world, highlighting the inconsistency in public outcry and media coverage between different conflicts. The piece argues that war is an unjustifiable crime against humanity, driven by greed and the lust for power, where civilians are mere pawns in a larger geopolitical game. It suggests that society is often blinded by comfort and the pursuit of material success, which prevents collective action for peace. The text also touches on the manipulation of information by the media, which leads to a distorted understanding of world events and hinders the ability to make informed judgments. Despite the loss of hope, the author maintains a thread of faith in humanity's potential for change, advocating for a society that rejects prejudice and values the collective well-being over personal gain.

Opinions

War is an unjustifiable crime, regardless of the reasons or grounds it is based upon.
The media plays a significant role in shaping public perception by selectively presenting information that benefits certain groups.
Society's focus on personal comfort and material success contributes to a lack of genuine concern for global peace and justice.
The true motivations behind wars are often profit and power dynamics, rather than the ideals of democracy and peace.
The manipulation and withholding of information by the media is a common practice that distorts reality and impedes the public's ability to judge situations accurately.
The author believes that humans are capable of change and that a society free of prejudice and fear is possible, though they are skeptical about witnessing such change in their lifetime.
The nuclear threat is a real concern, and the pursuit of nuclear weapons undermines the possibility of achieving true peace.
The article suggests that people are living under a veil of lies about life's purpose and are numbed by brainwashing, which hinders their ability to see beyond the manipulation.
The author has lost hope but retains faith that humanity can evolve to prioritize community well-being over individual gain, leading to a better world for future generations.

Hypocrisy and all its Friends

Not so popular opinion

Wrapped in the cloak of our fantasies about the world we live in, we were rubbing our eyes in horror after waking up to a war in Ukraine.

War is a crime that can’t be justified.

Ukraine is no different from Yemen, Syria, Palestine, or Afghanistan. War is still a war no matter on what ground it starts.

There is no justification for aggression, nothing one can say to justify arming and supporting the conflict.

To show one as a savior of democracy, bearer of peace and prosperity — is there anyone who believes in such lies where the wolf is dressing in sheepskin to have his way with the sheep?

We get compassionate when we see pictures of war, but for how long? If the media isn’t covering it, it’s forgotten.

Media is only here to serve information that suits people who benefit from them.

Withholding information, and feeding us false information is normal, and an accepted thing today, but how can we then know what is really going on? How can we judge or choose if we are instructed by deceit and lies? The truth is always a matter of point of view, some might say, but the facts stay the same, no matter how you try to perceive them.

As always, for our own comfort, we only see what we want to see closing our eyes to injustice and suffering caused by greed.

Why?

It’s easier that way. It’s how we maintain our illusion of the world by trying to follow all the guidelines put upon us by the media about what kind of a life we need to lead — Office job, picket fence, a car, holiday home, and membership in a country club.

While striving to keep up with the Jones, we don’t have time to protest for world peace.

What happened, where did we go so wrong? We call upon humanity only when it’s needed, but for what or whom?

The inescapable truth is that wars are about profits and a balance of power. We, the regular little people, are just pawns in their game of war.

It’s the choice between two evils, it always is, but no matter the choice we have to learn to live with it.

Seeing how deep the heat and prejudice go, how they poison young hearts that never stood a chance in front of the centuries of demagogy of one’s God-given right of superiority, it breaks my heart in half.

I blindly believed all that is just a bad dream, that in the 21 century we freed ourselves of such beliefs, that we learned from our mistakes as a human race, that we are capable of change.

Hope … is there any left in a world so deprived of empathy and common sense?

Invasion of one’s sovereignty, declaring war by claiming one’s land for whatever reason can’t be justified by any argument or reason.

Every country has its cross to bear, every country has the problems it needs to deal with.

Encouraging conflict, and war is not the solution but a crime.

As long as we are trying to justify those crimes it won’t stop, and we are just turning our heads from the problem at hand. No government is perfect, no human is perfect we are all struggling to make the best of it.

Greed and lust for power are what hurts the world the most, it’s what’s opening the doors to suffering and destruction.

Deep down inside we know all that, we see all that but where is the strength and will to act against it?

As long as it doesn’t touch us it’s not our problem? It will be one day. It will become our problem one day for who can say with utmost certainty that another psychopath won’t rule the government that will start a war against your country?

The nuclear threat is not fiction, it’s reality, and as long as countries need nuclear weapons to feel safe there will be no peace.

I lost my hope but not yet my faith in the human race. But I’m afraid that we will have to suffer a lot before we realize killing and greed will get us nowhere.

My dream is that we are capable of change, capable of putting personal gain behind the well-being of our community. We can’t make it on our own, we need each other to build a better world. We need to leave our egos aside to create freedom and prosperity for everyone. Not just for you and me, but for everyone that we see and meet. It’s not that hard, and it doesn’t have to be a utopia, we have the power to make it our reality. It’s so sad we don’t see it.

People are living in a short-term illusion where they are fed with lies about what is life and how it is supposed to be. They are numbed and brainwashed, a decrease to the human race. Did they ever have a chance, being caught into the web on manipulation and lies?

Should I feel sorry for them? These people are ruling for wars, ruling for blood and destruction in the world. Even when they are faced with facts they can process them, and go beyond lies.

What is there to do? Will it ever stop? This overall brainwashing and manipulation of the masses? Why can I see it and you can’t? Is what I’m seeing real or is it a lie?

Will we live to see the day when murder will be murder, and war will be war — both to be considered a crime without any justification? Will we wake up to see a society that is free of prejudice and fear, a society where you won’t be accused of a crime based on your religious beliefs or the color of your skin?

I have no more hope, that I will live to see that dawn, but I do have faith that one-day things will change. Nothing lasts forever, or maybe human stupidity is eternal, but we need to wait and see.

We really have nothing to hold on to but faith for a better world for our children and all humanity.

~ Iva