Being destructive isn’t brave.
Peace may not be as lucrative, but it cannot be ignored – no matter what today’s Academy Awards ceremony might suggest. There is more money in crisis, but we neither have to participate in the persistent lunacy of the game of war nor tolerate its most involved players (after all, it is they who continue to reap the spoils of death and destruction).
We have never been better equipped to transcend the impetus to conquer and oppress than today, so the question is why. Why don’t we? Let’s not turn to the Oscars for wisdom or justice. Let’s enjoy that silly show for what it is, while we can. But let’s do turn inward to consider peace for ourselves and peace for the world.
We know too much – we know better! – than to turn a blind eye, a deaf ear, an uncaring heart to the oh-so-real and alarming ways in which life has been so easily neglected, burdened, snuffed on this Earth as of late, and it must stop.
We gotta give peace a chance.
King of Cups 