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Insanity

• July 21st, 2006

Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Price said that line and boy does it seem relevant today. The newspapers and newscasts are full of the latest casualties and the doom and gloom of no end in sight as the Middle East explodes in to hatred.

I can hardly think about it. Families obliterated (sorry civilians will need to die too), romances destroyed (this is more important) and children left homeless and abandoned (so what, there kids). How can this world continue to operate in this manner without serious long term consequences, like changing the very heart and soul of all humanity?

I fear I have been affected by this turmoil to the point that I no longer care who is right about it, I just want it to stop.

I spoke with a neighbor of mine recently who told me they would need people like me to help set up systems for people with disabilities in Iraq. I admit I felt a bit astonished when I thought about it; what is going on for people in that part of the world who have disabilities? I suspect not much….but I suppose that’s not much different that the state I live in, we just don’t have the bombs and a military presence. I suppose that is worse than disregard and large instiutuions.