Chain of Thoughts

It is so hard to put in writing all the thoughts that fly in my head while I drive to work in the morning.

Today I decided to write down at least one sentence as a mood description or as they say on Facebook “ what’s on my mind”. I forgot what was so important that I needed to share, but I’ll try to show the chain of thoughts.

The media informs us every day that our economy grows. They compare us with other countries and say we have an economy that grows faster than any other economy. We are so proud of ourselves. Hooray! The euphoria lasts until you realize that it grows because we are bombing a good half of the world. Our economy grows because the workers now have to replace the used bombs with the new ones. Bombs are goods in demand by our military which really uses our tax money when ordering the bombs to be built.

Next, I begin to calculate in my head how much money I pay to bomb those people. If my monthly federal tax is about $800 that means I support a day of “work” of 2 military contractors sent out there into the world to bomb some people in my name. Those contractors are famous for killing innocent civilians and their families, raping local girls and filming the rape as porn movies.

Then I switch to thinking that people, who seek jobs, which have killing somebody as a job description, seem sick in their heads. It is not strange that at home they turn into violent family members who end up killing their wives or children, or both. Violence has this influence on us, humans, it replicates and spreads.

Of course, from the military I have to move on to police and think of training our police. This “training” turns normal, average people into racist sadists. They come to serve and protect us, but after training all they want is to beat us up and if we still move, shoot us (here “us” are mostly black people) to finish. They believe they can give us orders, interrupt our daily routine, raise their voice at us and our children, use interrogation techniques when talking to citizens, and curse. What kind of training is it?

Here is the graph:

If crime goes down, why do we train more and more police? Why do we have so many people in jails? Don’t tell me that those are the criminals, we all know they are marijuana smokers sitting in jail, paid by our taxes, for nonviolent crimes. Violent crime is down, that's the fact.

So, here it is, one day of thoughts while driving to work.