Welcomes.....

I start this blog anew, specifically for the purpose of my rants and observations of the world around me. Even more specifically, it is for my rants about the failed species that is humanity. I like people...but I pretty well despise humanity. From what I have seen, the species is comprised of beings who lie, steal, cheat, and use others as a matter of course, and then go through and pretend to these high ideals and morals that they don't actually follow. People who will discourse at length about how horrible someone, or something that they have done, is...and then laugh and smile to their face. No mention of it to the one person to whom saying it could make a positive difference. People who see even a minor injustice, child being dragged through a store, one person vehemently insulting their lover...and people do nothing, either too embarrassed to be the one to make the move and stand apart (even though it would be more like standing above), or assuming that it is someone else's place. Yet these tiny hurts, these tiny injustices, indecencies, hurts and wounds...they don't get stopped. They just build. Because people are too rarely willing to put themselves apart from what the rest of the herd is doing. If you know what is decent, honorable, and good, but you do not act on it...then you are none of these. Complacency is a horrible infection, and it has spread much too far.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" -from Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet film adaptation of 'War and Peace'
"It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." -Edmund Burke