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Life's definately looking up. Back at the Ranch and happy as a horse. It feels so comfortable and familiar here.
We have baby rabbits. Possibly the. cutest. things. ever.
Weather's been much too hot and windy. Perfect weather for speading the massive forest fires that have been terrorizing northwestern Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
God. Men suck. I want so badly to be free of desiring them. It seems so weak to be needy. I just can't shake the feelings. I want to be strong and principled and independent.
The more I read about hunger and poverty, the more I realize how complex the issue really is. However, an immense amount of the suffering around the world does seem to come from Greed. People have been hoarding as an instinct since the beginning. It's all about food security and survival, I think. This animalistic tendency to stockpile and be ready for anything. The problem is when one set of people are hoarding all of the resources and the other set have no way to attain any sort of financial stability or security. Mostly, those resources have been taken from the second set forcibly. Exhibit A: the Native Americans. Exhibit B: the Ethiopians. Exhibit C: the Irish. Note that in Ex. B, during the years of the famine, Ethiopia was exporting more food and cash crops than ever before, all of it, of course, going to rich European countries. A feudalistic mentality starved thousands of Ethiopians while others actually benefitted off the disaster. In Ex. C, all of western Europe had the same potato blight. So why did only the Irish starve? Because they were making so much money exporting their good crops to England that the peasants had been slowly forced onto a diet of potatoes alone. So, while England belched loudly, the Irish peasants starved.
It makes me sick for humanity.
We have baby rabbits. Possibly the. cutest. things. ever.
Weather's been much too hot and windy. Perfect weather for speading the massive forest fires that have been terrorizing northwestern Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
God. Men suck. I want so badly to be free of desiring them. It seems so weak to be needy. I just can't shake the feelings. I want to be strong and principled and independent.
The more I read about hunger and poverty, the more I realize how complex the issue really is. However, an immense amount of the suffering around the world does seem to come from Greed. People have been hoarding as an instinct since the beginning. It's all about food security and survival, I think. This animalistic tendency to stockpile and be ready for anything. The problem is when one set of people are hoarding all of the resources and the other set have no way to attain any sort of financial stability or security. Mostly, those resources have been taken from the second set forcibly. Exhibit A: the Native Americans. Exhibit B: the Ethiopians. Exhibit C: the Irish. Note that in Ex. B, during the years of the famine, Ethiopia was exporting more food and cash crops than ever before, all of it, of course, going to rich European countries. A feudalistic mentality starved thousands of Ethiopians while others actually benefitted off the disaster. In Ex. C, all of western Europe had the same potato blight. So why did only the Irish starve? Because they were making so much money exporting their good crops to England that the peasants had been slowly forced onto a diet of potatoes alone. So, while England belched loudly, the Irish peasants starved.
It makes me sick for humanity.