| p>I recently read an article about military folks | | | | shelter, oil, resources in general? Then we wouldn't |
| having job security during the credit crunch. The | | | | need money and we wouldn't require war! |
| soldier's wife who wrote it stated how grateful | | | | Add that to the global warming problem, (had you |
| she is that her husband has a safe job during | | | | forgotten that?), and we have surely long passed |
| these difficult financial times. | | | | the day when we simply throw open the doors |
| I can see where she's coming from, I really can. | | | | and our arms and declare "Everyone's welcome |
| But the whole thing saddened me. The thought | | | | everywhere!" |
| that people we love are more valued than ever | | | | It is said that Hell is a place where everyone is |
| risking their lives to "bring home the bacon" in | | | | made to stand around a gigantic cauldron of |
| case the depression/recession worsens made me | | | | delicious food that bubbles away eternally. |
| think, isn't it time we re-evaluated our whole social | | | | Everybody has a ladle strapped to their wrist that |
| structure? | | | | makes it impossible to bring the food to their |
| Are our marriage problems really going to be | | | | mouth. |
| resolved or kept at bay because our significant | | | | Heaven is said to be exactly the same, except |
| other is still paid to be part of an organisation | | | | that there everyone feeds each other. |
| whose purpose is to kill other people? It is a very | | | | Wouldn't we have happier marriages if we were |
| sad day indeed when we are saying "thank God | | | | happier people? Doesn't it make you feel good |
| for war." (Because it means "I"m all right, Jack.") | | | | when you make someone else feel good? You |
| I'm not blaming that woman or her husband. I'm | | | | can make them laugh, sort out their boy/girlfriend |
| sure they are lovely people, and he is a brave | | | | problems, give advice about how to cook a |
| guy whom we would dub a hero. It isn't them, or | | | | dinner, send a card or an email ... the ways to |
| the countless others who must be in similar | | | | make people happy are without number, and |
| circumstances. | | | | every one of them will make you feel good. Most |
| We need a whole shift in our cultural and political | | | | of them cost nothing too. |
| thinking. | | | | So why do we think that if you have a husband, |
| The fact is there is enough food and shelter for | | | | wife or partner who risks his or her life in the |
| everyone on this planet. There is only one world | | | | business of taking the lives of others makes our |
| with lumps of land on it that somebody sometime | | | | existence better? How can that solve anyone's |
| claimed chunks of for themselves and then | | | | marriage problems? |
| became prepared to kill other people if anyone | | | | Someone else's husband may not be coming |
| else tried to get it from them, or had some | | | | home in Afghanistan or Iraq or somewhere that |
| fundamental belief about how to live that wasn't | | | | "we" don't like right now. This is not the way to a |
| shared by the folks on a neighbouring lump of | | | | happy marriage or to resolve marriage problems! |
| land! | | | | Call me naive and utopian, but frankly, all the |
| Now that the credit crunch is here, shouldn't we | | | | other choices seem pretty dark right now. |
| be looking at sharing everything: land, food, | | | | Anyone else got any thoughts? |