The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but but by those who watch them without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
That is where we are now, yet again. The persecution being perpetrated by Islamist extremists (and it is difficult to refer to them as Extremists when they're truly simply Orthodox and Fundamentalist) against everyone who is not one of their kind has reached apocalyptic proportions while we watch. It is truly amazing that the actions taking place on the part of criminal entities such as ISIS and ISIl along with other extreme organizations continue to occur with greater frequency and without hesitation, or resistance, yet the remainder of the world squats and scratches to the sight of it.
What bothers me to the core is not that there are those seek solutions and demand justice yet fall short of those goals, but the fact that the remainder of the world offers very little concern and often looks at the issues as mere consequences of extremist and political strife. What bothers me is that we have to look at this and state- This is What We Are.
It is what we are and have been since the dawn of time. Insidious acts of violence have long been a crucial aspect of the Human Condition going back through the annals of recorded history and then through what's been discovered through archaeological means. But what's happened in the past was so bad that we recall it clearly, prompting one to theorize that we just might utilize these lessons to better the world we live in today. But, guess what? The world is, in so many ways, equally as evil and some ways certainly even worse. So, what are we doing about it? Basically, what I'm doing about it right now, which is sit next to a cup of coffee within an air-conditioned room while sitting in a comfortable chair and expressing my concerns through my keyboard.
I'm not expecting any major changes to occur. I'm not expecting this article to prompt world leaders and those who have the power to get up from their meetings in palatial chambers and make some positive changes. I don't anticipate these sorts of outreaching efforts will prompt humanity to improve its own kind and seek a halt to the madness. After all, recently Angelina Jolie, who has been very outspoken and has utilized her celebrity position to reach out in attempts to prompt leaders such as those at the UN, spoke against the organized Sex Slavery and continual rapes of children where ISIS has taken power. She has spent much of her life speaking on behalf of those victimized where war rages on, and bless her for it. But she, an internationally famous individual, achieved about as much as I'm achieving right here.
My telling of this here isn't news. What is intended here (and I challenge anyone to offer another position on the matter) is for me to indicate this is what we are at our core. Look, we know we are basically a highly predatory species and boast how we're the Apex Predator on this planet. I'm not challenging such claims, but if we are not to be what I claim we are, then we must stop being what I claim we are. We know these atrocities occur yet we do not unite as a species, as a world, as a unified force of countries around the globe and move in to save our own kind.
Why? Because that isn't what we are. We don't do that. Our predatory instincts prompt us to allow predation to occur and we view it as normal and an aspect of humanity as a whole. One must suppose there would be some who would challenge this assertion and state this is not what we are, but these fantasies aren't based in reality. They can raise a fist and point at fundraisers and interview those who dared venture into those places where these atrocities occur, and state there are those who are doing something. I have to agree with those specific people, but I can point to the billions everywhere else and say, "Guess again."
And this is why these Holocausts will continue forward and relish in their successes. Because we have brave people going in (such as Kayla Mueller, who ended up a sex slave of the Islamic State and eventually killed while the most influential country's leaders looked on along with the rest of the world and did next to nothing) but they are inconsequential against the numbers populating the evil and the remaining billions who couldn't care less one way or another. In fact, my point is so easy to support that there is an organization here in the United States called Planned Parenthood. This organization is being paid literally millions of dollars by our government to literally farm our own kind through body parts of babies sold for profit and research, and motions to stop this threaten to shut down the entirety of that government. WTF...
If the world itself was rising up and moving in as a mass to stop ISIS and the rape rooms and sex slavery occurring online and within open markets (where a young girl's life might be worth $60) it would be so easy to claim this is what humanity does for humanity. But that is not happening and history demonstrates it never does. Sure, political leaders will go to war at times for certain egregious offences (Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, on and on) but these often prove a part of a bigger agenda and rarely demonstrate a move on humanitarian grounds unless other political leaders, colleagues, are at risk.
One of the reasons I was prompted to write this is because the widespread occurrences today shedding light on what we truly are as humans reminds of the first time I discovered the issue. I recall being perhaps twelve years of age when I first saw WWII footage of what was being done to the Jews and others during that time. The first time I had to confront what we truly are was when I saw grainy black and white footage of stories-high piles of emaciated bodies being bulldozed into open pits. But I knew that such occurrences took place well before I was born and I had heard claims the world stated such atrocities would happen never again. Well, evil equal to or worse indeed has happened again, and again, since that footage was filmed and is happening right now.
There are some doing something to fight these evils, but because our kind doesn't view these things as a big enough problem to rise in unity against it, it seems we must concede they'll continue on their merry way. After all, we have the potential of melting polar ice caps to worry about.
The picture at the top of the post shows piles of bodies, children. This picture is from the WWII era, and there's no denying the horror of it. But the pics directly above show an image of killed sex slaves disposed of by ISIS and of one woman's horrific end on the part of what ISIS thinks of Christians. While these images do not demonstrate stories-high piles of victims, the news coverage of what is occurring in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Iraq,
I found these images, along with scores more, on the internet with a minimum of difficulty. I gave a moment's thought to what I was looking for, punched in a few keywords and boom, there they were, quite similar to what my mind thought they would look like. Now, if my assertion that this is what we are as a species is so wrong, then why am I able to find these images and news reports in such volume that I'm not sure how to go them all, yet I cannot find much of anything in terms of what's being done to bring these tragedies to a halt? Sure, there are pockets of activists and brave people rising up in outrage, but there are literally and truthfully billions of people around the globe who are either not doing anything at all or are being prevented from doing anything by those who actually have the power to make a difference.
I have no doubt there are plenty of able-bodied men around the world who would jump at the chance to join together and move into these hellholes in order to make a positive change. But we all know there are numerous legal and political entities that would (finally take some action, but for the wrong reasons and) prevent these groups from doing so, on numerous legal grounds. Further, these governmental entities are NOT gathering such men for these purposes. So, while humanity squats in front of coffee or pizza or whatever and some officials speak out against the horror with verbose language and cries of injustice,
Meanwhile, things such as you see in the images next are going on full swing and with no resistance at all-
The picture on top depicts a young girl on the auction block being auctioned off so she can enjoy a life of sex slavery and be raped more than a dozen times a day. The lower pic demonstrates a happy-go-lucky Islamist reporter showing off a new budding bride (she's seven years old) who is soon to enjoy all the accolades of being forced into a marriage with an Islamist. I'm sure she's ecstatic. The tears are surely from being camera shy. There are no proper words for the next picture.
All the best to you, Imam Philips.
I am not a fool so I recognize this troubled world is not soon to become a Utopian place where we all live in peace and there is no more evil. But apparently I am severely limited in my ability to perceive the world around me without prejudice, since my limited mental capacity wants the good to fight the evil, not recline next to the donuts and debate about it. My arrested development cries out to those who have the means, resources and manpower to go in and rescue the innocent, victimized and terrorized, but said arrested development carved a wide swath through my entire species and bound their tongues. My debilitated mental state finds incredible difficulty in comprehending how footage of these atrocities is televised for all to see but is merely brought to us by Pepsi and AT&T.
When I first saw images, video, similar to what is depicted in the image at the top of the post, I sat there at that age and asked in a whisper, "What are we?"
I am not just a few weeks shy of reaching fifty years old, asking in a whisper, "How many times do I have to keep asking that same question?"
Einstein was a rather smart fellow. It's such a shame that we cannot heed his statement and say, "Those who do nothing amount to nothing more than the number claimed by the media and public record is equal to those claimed to populate the number of extremists who perpetrate these atrocities." with a straight face and then point to the billions who are ready to combat the evil.
It is truly a shame, indeed.
Hey there, fellow humanity! Take a look at the next pic and tell me with a straight face that this is not what you are.
If this is not what you are, then stop being this. And before you get as indignant as Whoopi over climate change and spew from your head you would never do this, you must acknowledge that Silence Is Consent. My original premise is that out of the billions of us, only an insignificant number is raging against this while the remainder worry more about the price of gasoline.
Because I do not foresee all of humanity, the billions of them, coming together to combat this evil, the next picture is my guess of what will be the final chapter of humanity as it willingly surrenders its existence to evil.
Because I don't want this to be, let's work together and prove me wrong.
