JULY 4TH is a couple of days ahead.............Americans are stockpiling hundreds of millions of Fireworks to blow up, to watch 'the rocket's red glare.....bombs bursting in air' .....

In America, one can be a conscientious objector......If no one will fight, persisting in peaceful, consciousness-expanding dialogue, there will be far less conflict, and...inevitably....less rationalization for war and bloodshed.......Yet, our culture continues to glorify gore, horror, murder and licentiousness.....Actually, more humans are murdered on television, in video games and movies than in the "real" world......so it is apparent that we humans need, in this era, alas, at least to vicariously murder and maim, extract vengeance, piss higher and feel that we are justified in doing so.....young soldiers are brainwashed to depersonalize the "enemy" and transfer their own suppressed anger and hate into a big shoot-em-up video game extravaganza.....and tens of millions of virtual "enemies" are destroyed every day! Lots of murder and mayhem games.... but I could not find a "build a beautiful dream city where Love is supreme" game anywhere.......there are , however, hundreds of games in which the player's goal is to destroy cities, even entire planets, solar systems and galaxies, murdering and even raping the resistant inhabitants to loud 'soundtracks' or Nazi/Sousa marching band 'music'..... Redneck survivalists have, almost without exception, huge stores of firearms and artillery, stockpiled for an event for which the asses need to "protect" the "people" from "our"enemies. My grandmother taught her children and grandchildren to make flower arrangements, play musical instruments, draw and paint, create just about anything from modelling clay, play dress-up (and I do not mean "military uniforms"), cook and keep an aesthetic home.......When I was a child, I thought this way of living was the "American Way".... I have discovered, subsequently, that it is not! Anyone for a walk by the pond, this lovely afternoon....the birds are joyful and the air is full of the perfumes of flowers....this seems like more fun than the sowing of dragon's teeth in the barren killing fields, while listening to death-metal music, doesn't it?