They impress me. They know no boundaries to communications. They have friends, acquaintances, business affiliates around the world. I don't recall exactly, Google or Facebook, but there is a capacity to map all the people that have befriended you.
When I was their age I had a friend or two in far away lands, but, I used special "Air Mail" paper to lighten the envelope of the letters I sent. Now, they share more than words on a page, or an occasional picture caught in time, they share their lives and moments via video and Skype. I can't imagine any of them expecting to find their friends in China or Russia are suffering from nuclear burns to their bodies or worse and still consider themselves worthy of the air they breath. They share more than friendships, they share values. I can pull up a Japanese artist with a different video and cultural setting but the message is exactly the same. Love and acceptance.
The imagery in the video is one of their values and their loyalty to wholeness of each human being. Charli XCX has another album/video out called "Break the Rules." She has her issues as do many young people, but, she is not really a youngster so to speak. She is currently 22 years old. Some people never grow up.
But, that isn't the point. I am not going to make an enemy of a young woman willing to use incredibly benevolent visuals. I find it interesting there is a trend not only to be affiliated with an organization such as Jolie-Pitt Foundation which of course was self founded. It was Miley Cyrus who had her acceptance speech said by a homeless young man. There is this 'thing' that goes on with them that is incredibly magnificent. These are our kids and their children.
We, as a generation, always wanted our children to be exceptional and safe. We wanted a world far more peaceful and prosperous. We wanted a country of benevolence.
Some of us now have grandchildren and wonder will the world we committed to so long ago ever realize it's manifestation. I mean the USA can't even get it's act together on the climate crisis, why expect it to ever realize there are no greater enemies than ourselves and the mishandling of world affairs.
I have lived more than half a century now. I grew up with fears of nuclear annihilation and never witnessed the deployment of a nuclear weapon ever in my lifetime and I expect that not to change.
How can fifty years of non-nuclear war and a global history of only two nuclear bombs being deployed ever be met with so much fear that this nightmare keeps being proliferated over and over.
We are better than that. They, THE ENEMY, is better than that. We know the horror. Japan gratefully found no shame in telling the world the truth of the atomic bombs the USA deployed leveling cities and killing massive numbers of people. Every year Japan makes the message we all should be heeding very clear. The nuclear weapon is unthinkable. In that reality, it is undeployable.
Today, our nuclear facilities have proven to be a menace and the personnel that is suppose to be standing guard for the nation unreliable. I am confident the USA is not alone in that reality either. I can't quite imagine Russia coming through a collapse of the Soviet Union unscathed. And the Chinese. They would still not have their technology if the USA hadn't been accommodating in correcting it's technology to fire missiles in a trajectory into space. AND with that reality I am supposed to believe China has something nuclear of greater capacity than this country? No.
In our politics we never stop to take inventory in how completely stupid it all is. The Republican right wing wants to hang on to the Manhattan Project as if it only happened yesterday. The Democrats speak of peace and non-proliferation. I think it is time to take a real look at where the world is now and plot a different course of survival of all people and every country.
We really aren't fighting another cold war as Putin expects there to be for the purpose of his politics. We are fighting individuals now. We are ridiculing religious zealotry. We, as a planet, are in a very, very dangerous place.
In complete honesty, Charli's video may as well be that of China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and every country in Africa. Every country on every continent has a generation of young people that have it right. They absolutely have it right. The challenge of their lives is equity, not superiority. They want to be as prosperous as they need to be, but, they also want their piers around the world to mirror their values and prosperity.
I think it is time to defer to the kids and work toward a world where they can all live and be happy. Ideologies be damned. They have a common thread they carry in their hearts and they know what it is. I think they are a great generation and they do have their own answers. It is time to hand them the world they deserve.
When I was their age I had a friend or two in far away lands, but, I used special "Air Mail" paper to lighten the envelope of the letters I sent. Now, they share more than words on a page, or an occasional picture caught in time, they share their lives and moments via video and Skype. I can't imagine any of them expecting to find their friends in China or Russia are suffering from nuclear burns to their bodies or worse and still consider themselves worthy of the air they breath. They share more than friendships, they share values. I can pull up a Japanese artist with a different video and cultural setting but the message is exactly the same. Love and acceptance.
The imagery in the video is one of their values and their loyalty to wholeness of each human being. Charli XCX has another album/video out called "Break the Rules." She has her issues as do many young people, but, she is not really a youngster so to speak. She is currently 22 years old. Some people never grow up.
But, that isn't the point. I am not going to make an enemy of a young woman willing to use incredibly benevolent visuals. I find it interesting there is a trend not only to be affiliated with an organization such as Jolie-Pitt Foundation which of course was self founded. It was Miley Cyrus who had her acceptance speech said by a homeless young man. There is this 'thing' that goes on with them that is incredibly magnificent. These are our kids and their children.
We, as a generation, always wanted our children to be exceptional and safe. We wanted a world far more peaceful and prosperous. We wanted a country of benevolence.
Some of us now have grandchildren and wonder will the world we committed to so long ago ever realize it's manifestation. I mean the USA can't even get it's act together on the climate crisis, why expect it to ever realize there are no greater enemies than ourselves and the mishandling of world affairs.
I have lived more than half a century now. I grew up with fears of nuclear annihilation and never witnessed the deployment of a nuclear weapon ever in my lifetime and I expect that not to change.
How can fifty years of non-nuclear war and a global history of only two nuclear bombs being deployed ever be met with so much fear that this nightmare keeps being proliferated over and over.
We are better than that. They, THE ENEMY, is better than that. We know the horror. Japan gratefully found no shame in telling the world the truth of the atomic bombs the USA deployed leveling cities and killing massive numbers of people. Every year Japan makes the message we all should be heeding very clear. The nuclear weapon is unthinkable. In that reality, it is undeployable.
Today, our nuclear facilities have proven to be a menace and the personnel that is suppose to be standing guard for the nation unreliable. I am confident the USA is not alone in that reality either. I can't quite imagine Russia coming through a collapse of the Soviet Union unscathed. And the Chinese. They would still not have their technology if the USA hadn't been accommodating in correcting it's technology to fire missiles in a trajectory into space. AND with that reality I am supposed to believe China has something nuclear of greater capacity than this country? No.
In our politics we never stop to take inventory in how completely stupid it all is. The Republican right wing wants to hang on to the Manhattan Project as if it only happened yesterday. The Democrats speak of peace and non-proliferation. I think it is time to take a real look at where the world is now and plot a different course of survival of all people and every country.
We really aren't fighting another cold war as Putin expects there to be for the purpose of his politics. We are fighting individuals now. We are ridiculing religious zealotry. We, as a planet, are in a very, very dangerous place.
In complete honesty, Charli's video may as well be that of China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and every country in Africa. Every country on every continent has a generation of young people that have it right. They absolutely have it right. The challenge of their lives is equity, not superiority. They want to be as prosperous as they need to be, but, they also want their piers around the world to mirror their values and prosperity.
I think it is time to defer to the kids and work toward a world where they can all live and be happy. Ideologies be damned. They have a common thread they carry in their hearts and they know what it is. I think they are a great generation and they do have their own answers. It is time to hand them the world they deserve.
