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Baltimore Riots .. sign of the time
Robert R. Odle, Ph.D.
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...The root cause of all suffering ....
It is one thing to suffer, it is another thing to suffer, and for those around you to blame you for your own suffering. No one choses suffering, poverty, drugs and misery. You don’t wake up one day and say gee, I want to be jobless with minimal education and no prospects for anything getting better. Obviously, your parents were not any help, your friends and family were not any help, and lastly, your society was not any help in guiding you to the promise land, the land of milk and honey that America used to be.
The people that are struggling in this society are not choosing to suffer any more than the people in Nepal chose to be poor and to be hit by an earthquake. America is failing, failing to take care of the weakest among us. Unlike most of the Western World, we do not make sure our people do not starve, do not die from treatable ailments, do not lose hope from despair. We do not see that justice is done for even children arriving at our shores looking for help, or adults willing to risk all to come to America. Instead, we judge people and condemn them for their shortcomings. We have become a society of condemnation instead of acceptance and compassion. We are dominated by fear instead of love. We have a belief in authority and do not hear the cries of the common man. We mock countries like Australia and Denmark that take care of everyone as being inefficient and not maximizing their GNP. We ignore the lack of jobs in America and then blame those that are unemployed. We assume because we know how to make money in America that we are a good county despite the data to the contrary.
As a country, we can find compassion and start addressing the suffering that is occurring in this country, or we can watch it all go down the tube. We are no longer the greatest country on this planet. We are strongest and meanest kid on the block, nothing more.
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