America needs an intervention
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by Cassandra, Unknown News
Aug. 14, 2006
After all the recent hullabaloo regarding Mel Gibson's drunken
freak-out, I'm remembering some of the things I learned when I worked
with substance abusers. I'm not a proponent of the twelve steps,
but there is a lot that I value in the field of recovery, like the idea of
the intervention. It sometimes works with people who are too far gone in
their addiction to realize that they are damaging their relationships
with family and friends, their jobs, and their own health. More often it
doesn't work, but what if a group were to stage an intervention for an
America that is drunk on power and petroleum?
Maybe the many people who believe everything they see on FOX News are
too accustomed to America's former status as 'superpower' to see that
we're losing everything. The environment is changing faster than our
ability to adapt, the US is widely viewed as an evil aggressor rather
than a beacon of freedom, and our national debt is out of control.
Yesterday
someone told me that there have always been wars and that his opinion,
or anyone's didn't matter. I will gladly allow his opinion to have no
further use, but right now the wars are being fought with weapons that
can destroy almost everything on the planet. We've gone from fighting
with the thighbones of animals we've driven to extinction to weapons
that will make us extinct ourselves.
Even if a group of the countries we share the planet with made the US
look at what it does, I don't think it would change the direction the
country is taking. Barrels of oil consumed could be pointed out like
empty bottles and syringes, to stubborn insistence that the US isn't
out of control, that it can cut back or stop any time it likes. Acts of
aggression would be explained away.
This can't be blamed entirely on having a dry-drunk alcoholic as
president, but until 2001 the country was still a functioning addict.
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