Ignorance without end

A piece examining some of the failings of modern society and minorly ranting about it on my part. Bit of cathartic writing.

 

 

Where does ignorance end?

It is the seemingly unanswerable question that plagues society ever more in modern times.

 

The only thing we can really do is throw the query into reverse and look at the adjacent question;

Where does it begin?  The obvious answer would seem to be as with so many things, at home.

And yet it goes much deeper than that.

 

Such deeply ingrained ignorance as we currently observe in some factions of society cannot merely be blamed on bad parenting. It’s more than that. Its institutionalized corruption, passed from grandparent to parent to child and so on and so forth.  Carelessly disregarding sensible rational and professing casual racism to be a perfectly acceptable (and even fun!) pursuit.

 

It is something that has festered away in the darker corners of suburbia for many a year.

Bothersome, but immediately dismissed by the more well adjusted among us as idiocy best ignored.

Harmless stupidity though offensive is generally an inert force.

 

However, ignorance can be a dangerous thing if allowed to get ahead of itself. Take a look at the self styled “English Defense League” misguided patriotism enveloped in a gelatinous combination of aggression and “yob” culture. The sheer embodiment of modern ignorance and the danger it now represents.

These fools insight and commit violent acts and wrong doing, masquerading under a banner of cod political justification. This is ignorance with the volume up to eleven.

No longer harmless stupidity, rather dangerous malignant stupidity, a glorification of prejudice and racism.

 

Ugly minded thugs such as this have been waiting their whole misspent lives for racism to be deemed “okay” by mainstream society. And in their own narrow minded excuse for reasoning, they believe recent terror attacks to be just the green light they’ve longed for.

But they aren’t. Let us get that crystal clear here, they are not.

 

Terror is not a race. It is not a culture or a faction of people, or a different language or skin colour or way of living. You cannot wage war upon it anymore than you can wage war upon oxygen.

Terror is universally user friendly.

An ideology, a state of mind, a belief that through violence and intimidation “good” ends can be achieved. In short, it’s the same thing that the very people who claim to be fighting it are doing.

 

You can’t deport terror.

You can’t send it back to where it came from.

It didn’t come from anywhere.

It lives everywhere.

You could deport every ethnic person in Britain if you’re that stupid and selfish and you wouldn’t rid the UK of terror. You wouldn’t change a thing. Hell, if tomorrow the RSPCA went rogue and decided that the only way to protect the animals from man was to blow up parliament they would then be terrorists.

Or perhaps it might be the BNP, that squad of utter crackpots you xenophobes love so much. They could go rogue tomorrow and try to take control via violence, I wouldn’t put it past them in fact… Then they’d be terrorists. They aren’t a million miles off now in my eyes. They certainly do nothing for inter-racial relations except create bad blood on both sides. They too embody the sickness of ignorance spreading all too keenly across modern culture.

 

The war on Iraq was an act of terror in many people’s eyes.

Our very own governments and troops eh? Terrorists!

But what’s that I hear in oh so loudly spoken protests? Howe dare I! Our troops are brave, honorable! Noble!

Perhaps. But proceed upon that premise and are they any braver than those who battle hopelessly against them. 9/11 was a terrible heinous act. No justification could ever be stated for it.

Bombing Iraq/Afghanistan was also a terrible heinous act. Terror lived there (just as it does here) but it wasn’t alone. Millions of innocent men women and children had to die so that our oh so decisive governments could decimate and dismantle two countries leaving withered husks of nations that were. Well done guys…

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. That’s always worth remembering.

 

 

I don’t know people…

I watch the news, I people watch, I listen to the average person’s point of view, and you know what?

I’m worried. I’m really worried….

 

Where can this madness take us?

 

 

Author's Note

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BP