Random Rantings

As written by a friend.

It is inconceivable that the maxim ‘do unto others what you would have done unto you’ could be erroneous. It is a fundamental belief that has been instilled in our lives from the time we could understand the spoken language. But time and time again in life we find this to be untrue.

Let me clarify, is doing the right thing at any cost the prudent thing to do? Is putting someone else’s happiness above your needs the smart thing to do? As a person who has been converted to cynicism through life’s events, I would probably say that this is not the smart thing to do.

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Chief Sealth of the Duwamish League, known to us as Chief Seattle, delivered this speech in 1854—One year before a great treaty-making council between Indian tribes and the U.S. Government. The Government proposed that reservations be established, and although several tribes opposed this, treaties were signed: each of the tribes was to select its favorite home valley as its reservation. Three months later, war broke out.

The great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great Chief also sends us words of friendship and goodwill. This is kind of him, since we know he has little need for our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer. For we know that if we do not sell, the white man may come with guns and take our land.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

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“Must people actually be exterminated to provide the rest of society a comfortable and secure existence?” I took this line off a friend’s blog post. This particular line struck me as quite ironic especially taking into consideration the happenings of last Thursday.

Bus loads of “Tamil lodgers” were packed off on buses bound to Vavuniya, (all bullshit aside) to “provide the rest of society a comfortable and secure existence…”

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My life as it stands now can only be deemed as one big mess! Looking at my life from one particular angle (with your neck strained to the far right I think), it’s quite simple. I’ve completed my degree, I want to get my life on track and in order to do that I need to become independent (which sadly I’m far from, at least financially) and I’ve somewhat figured out how I’m going to get about it. That doesn’t seem too complicated now does it? Unfortunately though, it is.

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