Fuck you Times

Fuck off

Mass media

I'm so angry at your fucking bullshit

Stories like this make me so mad. 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/06/us/isis-in-america.html?campaign_id=A100&campaign_type=Email

Here is a reputable, world famous publication spouting out what exactly?  For what purpose?  

The only thing I gathered from that is that people that are not accepted in the country they were born into feel isolated and depressed, and they start to seek to feel a part of something bigger than themselves. No fucking kidding?  Isn't that why people are patriotic?  Why some love sports?  Why some people love Sunday church?  Why people want big families?  To have a connection. We are human being. We all need connection. And when we can't get it where we are we find it wherever we can. That can be said of anyone. 

Husband doesn't feel connected at home he finds a mistress or hobby. 

Children don't feel connected at home they find friends and hobbies

Hopefully in an ideal world they will be healthy ones and for most people at least they aren't lethal ones like joining Isis. 

If we go strictly by the parameters they set than I fit the bill 100%. Yet ask anyone if I would ever hurt anyone ever. In my life. And the answer from anyone will be a resounding absolutely not. Never!!!  Because that isn't me. Not that I have hobbies or connections or have felt accepted in this country. Not that I am not depressed and isolated. I am all those things. But what I am not is stupid. To believe a cause that is not real. 

Violence only begets more violence. Any small gains in change happen only with peace and understanding first; on all parts. 

We are all one. Their really is not division. It's funny to me that the people that have no country should be the ones to understand that the most (in my opinion). When you go searching the world for where you belong you realize everyone, everywhere wants the same thing. It's just most people are too blind to see past the things that differentiate us to what binds us. To our humanity.  To the human experience. To our depth to love, our need to be valued, our desire to connect and the ability to be ourselves. 

The error in thinking here is that while yes we should always be ourselves(no matter what); we should never impose ourselves on another without the others expressed permission or desire. This includes animal, being, place or thing. 

Here's where people always get into trouble. 

So the end of the story. The take away. Be careful. Because the government will bate you and take you to jail. At least that should be the take-away for people in this situation. Maybe it was the New York Times "we care" campaign. Hey you idiots thinking you're gonna find a connection with anyone or anything related to Isis or seemingly related to anything close to Isis. We're watching you. Especially now after Orlando. Even though that had more to do with him being gay and repressed as a Muslim. 

Should I be scared too?

Socialism is shit

Communism doesn't work 

Yes it seems like a panacea

For all the evils of the world

Greed

Racism

Classism

Gender inequality

You name it 

But sure. 

Communist and socialistic systems 

Come up with an organization

A plan, a stipulation 

A habit, a rule, a law

To combat it

Right?

But it can't. Because we are all human and fallible and eventually it turns into a shit show; like this one. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/us/flds-lyle-jeffs-escape/index.html?campaign_id=A100&campaign_type=Email

Who knows what intentions were originally had, but when you start with inequality as your base what can go right from there?  Really. 

Or do I have the story wrong and woman were allowed to have as many men as they wanted too in the FLDS. 

So. 

My point is no system will work that starts out with inequality. 

Not democracy. Not communism. No political system based on differentiations can exist unless it is willing to accept that differentiation in everyone. In other words. For example. No longer is male and female becoming the norm for sex separation. We have male, female, transgender, binary, (what's that one where the genes and the gentalia don't match?), etc. 

We started out with two definitions thinking that would be the end all be all and now we have all these. Not by choice, but by evolution of our hearts. Not our bodies. These things have been around as long as we have been. People just didn't necessarily have a name for it maybe or it wasn't part of the lexicon. But now it is and there is no turning back. 

So. We have to start at a place that allows for all to be a part of society. That makes room for everyone. And in order to do so the change has to happen within each and every one of us.  On a level deep within. First starting by accepting ourselves. Forgiving ourselves. Loving ourselves. Then by turning those same feelings on to everyone else. Everyone else. Always. No matter what. God bless everyone. No exceptions.