The Griffon News

 There has been a lot of talk flying around these pages lately about disrespect, which is in itself is a very annoying thing, but it was overshadowed because someone played the dreaded race card at the same time and suddenly we with were left with a deeper topic of introspection for us all.  

 How we view each other as co-existing creatures crawling across this doomed landscape cannot be helped by threats and violence, or outrage and disrespect.

 What builds the richness of our collective global soul is the very differences we have that separate us into unique beings.

 Whether we be green, yellow, brown, pink, left, right, day or night we all breathe the same atmosphere, we occupy the same physical plane, we share the same einsteinium nightmare of linear time. We are all in this grand game together, and let me tell you, brother, the game is fixed.
 Xenophobia is the fear of strangers and it is hard wired into the biology of our psychology as human beings. Sometimes it serves a purpose, for example, it might have been justifiable for the Native Americans to worry about these new drunken syphilis infected neighbors who were rolling onto the shores of the local beach. Mankind has always feared the unknown. All of us do it at one point or another.

 Accepting that weakness may help us accept others differences and thus grow closer as one big global village.

 My father was a career Air Force man. I had the blessing of being raised around the world, being exposed to many cultures (and loving them) by a society of racially integrated service men and woman.  

 When you are in the service racial differences mean less, because to the U.S. government you are just another name, rank, and social security number.

 Just another cog in the war machine. Growing up global has left me with a ravenous hunger for foreign culture. My xenophobia has transformed into xenophilia.

  Hatred is a nasty thing, we can’t deny its existence. Hatred towards a common foe can be a uniting passion for certain. But let’s not let the evil world dominators that are running us all into oblivion exploit our hate and use it to divide us into savage creatures that would kill someone simply because they look and act different.
 Let us use that hatred towards the real enemies. — The bastards that are running us towards global ruin, class and racial warfare and cultural homogenization. Because we don’t have that much time left before we blow our collective cork that keeps all the insanity in the world reigned in, and if we are still crammed into our own posteriors focusing on how we call hate each other when the cork blows then we don’t have much of a chance for any of us to win this human race.