Hello Readers of viewzone,

You know, this crazy world just dodged a bullet that could have brought us all to the brink of World War Three. We really need to change the game we have been playing for the past hundreds of years. "Might makes right" simply does not cut it in the age of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. We've gotten too good at the art and science of killing each other. We simply lack the morality and sanity to play this game anymore. Too much is at stake.

Back in 1968, the film 2001: A Space Oddyssey, gave us a glimpse of the future with video-phones and intelligent computers. It was technology that existed in the mind of futurists like Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrich.

Today, 45 years later, we have iPhones and Skype. We have used our brains to bring us instant movies, GPS navigation in our cars and Google street views. No one can argue that our technology has made our lives more interesting and convenient.

The same advances have also been going on in the science of killing each other. We now have miniaturized nuclear bombs, intelligent cruise missiles, more deadly forms of nerve gas and biological agents customized to kill only certain races. We speak about the Hiroshima carnage as if it were some ruler to gage our ability to murder large numbers of people. How often have you heard that some new bomb is fifty, one hundred or one thousand times the destructive power of Hiroshima? Why would we ever need this?

Feeling helpless and hopeless, we sit at home and watch the political battles rage on for money, gas, oil or religion. Each conflict is waged with the same weaponized poker chips. One side threatens force and the other side "ups the ante" until both are "all in" and we are on the cusp of human extinction.

We need a new game.

While the humans lucky enough to be born in affluent countries eat hamburgers, finger their smart phones and express their narcissism on facebook, hundreds of thousands of other humans are starving and dying of preventable diseases in places we do not even know about. Our taxes continue to fund the development and implementation of more and better weapons of mass destruction while we preach about morality, our superiority and freedoms.

The latest crisis over Syria should be a wake up call. Warmongers like John McCain and Lindsy Graham -- throw Obama and most of our politicians in there also -- advanced the nuclear nightmare to within seconds of "midnight" with jokes, digital games, lavish dinners and kudos from each other. While doing this, terrified Syrian families left their homes and became homeless refugees out of fear that America was going to bomb the hell out of them.

We need a new game.

What if... are you ready for this way out there idea... What if we sent medical supplies, food and relief aid to these war torn countries? What if we exchanged our hate for compassion? What if we did not care if the victims of insane leadership were Catholic, Muslim, Atheists, Agnostic or Jew? What if we demanded that our taxes were used for humanitarian purposes and not to manufacture bombs or hassle other innocent people for the big corporations who only think of us as consumers? And what if we witheld these taxes until we knew they would be used in a way that brought us closer to peace and further from war?

We have some big problems in this world, like Fukushima, that are going to require unprecedented cooperation and new ways of thinking about our collective survival. There is no way to avoid the toxic contamination of our oceans and air from this disaster. It's already too late to blame anyone or philosophize about future technology. The human race, although we do not acknowledge it yet, is facing its most serious challenge ever, and the odds are currently against our success.

If you read this and have doubts it is only because you do not know the facts. Those instant movies and smart phones have kept us distracted from what has been going on for the past two years in Japan. Three melt-downs of the most toxic substance to life have been eating their way through the earth, long since escaping any containment, and are quickly spreading their death as you read this. It's no joke or exaggeration. You don't know about it because corporations want and need you to be planning for that new car, new cellphone or refrigerator.

We need a new game.

We need to start getting along, forgetting what name we call our God or even if we believe in one. We are all humans, black, white, yellow and brown. Our blood is red. We all love our wives, children and parents. We all want to live. We all have the capacity for love and compassion as well as hate and greed. We all have that thing called free-will.

We have been listening to the "news" or YouTube pundits for so long we have forgotten how to think for ourselves, to judge what is right and wrong by our internal voice. We have become cynical of anything simple and good. But this must change. We have got to get our shit together because the BIG challenge is here already.

I'm a no one. But it seems like someone has to say it. We should start by sending relief aid to the countries we ruined by our primitive caveman aggression. We need to be individuals, not members of the herd, and stand up for what is good.

I don't have any idea how this is going to happen but it has to happen for our humanity to survive. We will soon face the test of our ability to love and be loved. Our survival depends on it. We have to start somewhere -- it's already past due.

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