Cyclone Relief??? ROTFLMAO.

Today, I was asked to blog the truth in regard to the question; “Why did the government of Myanmar treat its citizens the way that they did?  Allowing so many people to die and continue to die?”

People act all outraged for ten seconds, fifteen minutes and/or the twenty days that some great catastrophe is happening.  Why did the government let them die???  The government allowed them to die the for the same reason the American Government did nothing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, greed, apathy and laziness. 

Now, before you point the finger at your local government official remember your government is but a collective reflection of you and supposedly the best YOUR society has to offer.  That’s why we elect these individuals into office, right?  Because these ”normal” individuals took up the call of servitude to and for their communities early and they are pillars of communities which they hail from, right?  Psssst, please.  They are the same opportunistic children prone to greed, abuses of power and violence offenses against their brothers all of which are created of the same broken, overt and deeply segregated society we ALL are.  These are our leaders.

If the greatest superpower and richest country the world has EVER known can’t do it for it’s own citizens and sleep easy at night???  Why be appalled, now???  Often I’ve seen people of all races, stop their cars so quickly that they almost cause others to have accidents with them and others.  Just to NOT hit a dog or to tend to an animal that was hit but, won’t drive to a neighborhood they’re unfamiliar with to mentor to children that have no other role models to protect them from the same fate, metaphorically speaking.

America is loved/hated around the world for these exact reasons.  To actually care about things and people means to act.  Look at these easily understandable examples.

 sym·pa·thy    Audio Help   /ˈsɪmpəθi/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[sim-puh-thee] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -thies, adjective –noun

1.	harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.

2.	the harmony of feeling naturally existing between persons of like tastes or opinion or of congenial dispositions.

3.	the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, esp. in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.

4.	sympathies, a. feelings or impulses of compassion. b. feelings of favor, support, or loyalty: It’s hard to tell where your sympathies lie.

 com·pas·sion    Audio Help   /kəmˈpæʃən/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuhm-pash-uhn] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.

–verb (used with object)

 

See one is the feeling or emotional understanding of someone else’s emotional placement the other is that understanding and the desire to act.  Sympathy is a feeling, compassion is an action.  We often give our officials too much credit because they display SYMPATHY (as they should) but, do they display acts of COMPASSION???

 

So my friend that wrote this and my friends reading… why would you expect these or those officials to do anything different from that which they’ve already done???  Scorpions, sting…  frogs, jump… and snakes, slither.  Oh, I know why, because you’re holding on to the hope people can and do change and you’re right to do so because they can, do and will.  Problem is, this type of change only happens when you are aware of the need for change.  Unfortunately, POWER and MONEY and the security and enjoyment they can purchase negate the struggles necessary to invoke those changes in a manner that best befits someone that will take up the cause of their fellow men caught in additional positions of struggle.  In other words, to have everything and give some for others or nothing at all is not sacrifice in either way.  Have you ever seen multitudes of rich and powerful men lower themselves and their status for anything or anyone??? 

 

You just think about it… I’ll wait.

~ by The Unfiltered Truth on May 8, 2008.