Nothing New Here

I have been discovering lately just how hard it is to write about the news. Normally I am filled with sarcastic or cynical remarks about all that is called news or those who are doing the reporting.

I am finding this to be more difficult as time goes on. Not because there is nothing to talk about but because it is generally the same thing over and over with only the names of people changing. What is there that is new that I could really offer an opinion on? Occasionally someone comes up with a new tech toy that's pretty cool but I don't claim to be tech savvy so it leaves me out. Sometimes someone will come up with a religious piece that I could go after, but to what end? I am not going to change anyone's minds on what they are predisposed to believe in the first place. Nope I can't think of much that is new.

Less you think I am wrong, consider for the moment; we have been in a perpetual state of war for twenty years. Twenty years of war and no fly zones. It hasn't mattered who was in office or who controlled the house and senate, we have been in a state of war. Nothing has changed except for the official count of countries we are fighting in.

More to consider; Have our politicians changed? Nope. Still obeying the lobbyists rather then the people, they openly admit this through the things that they sponsor and through the way they treat thier so called constituents, Some openly admit that they don't follow the Constitution, which i something that they are sworn to do, and they laugh us all to scorn. Th few that have any integrity are marginalized and ridiculed. So nothing has changed there.

The rich are getting richer faster today then they used to, that might be news worthy, but they are doing it on the backs of the poor,as always, so that negates that as being anything of real value to report.

The economy is shot to hell, but that's not really new either. Seems to be in my 46 years of life I have watched it go up and down like a see-saw, the only real difference was how long the good days lasted prior to the bubble bursting, but still this is nothing more then a repeat of history. Nothing new here.

The world itself has gone a bit crazier, but I'm not sure this is new either. China is building a massive military, the Russians are doing the same, we have our noses in everyone else s business. Iran is getting nukes, Turkey is escorting ships to Gaza, Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and that whole region is one spark away from starting the next great world war. Is any of this really new though? Nope.

So how do we change any of this? I really don't know. Until we get passed all our differences and start looking for solutions to those issues that we have in common, nothing will change. As long as we continue to look only to our own personal religious or political views and never consider that there might be some other points of view that are legitimate, nothing will change.

Perhaps Ronald Regan was right when he wondered if would take "Alien invasion" to make us put down all our stupid differences. I hope not. From all the movies I've seen we don't do so well against them.