Went out to see a movie last night. The one we wanted to see was full so we decided to see Lions for Lambs. I had seen a trailer which didn’t tell me much. I knew it had a pretty solid cast: Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Micheal Pena. I can’t say that it was a great! movie but it certainly left me with a message. There are movies too numerous to count saying that war is bad. And it is – it’s hell!
But I came away from this one with a message: that we should do something – anything – to change conditions. War isn’t the answer and there are a lot of things that can be done to actually make a difference.
“There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone. All factors inhibiting a solution of the problem of war and weapons are arbitrary factors and have no more validity than the justified explanations of a thief or murderer.”
from Dianetics: The Moderns Science of Mental Health” by L Ron Hubbard
Odds are that if you are reading this you are doing something – you were interested enough to somehow come across this blog. I’m quite sure that you have more than a few friends that are not confonting where this planet is headed. We don’t have to promote how awful things are but that something can be done about it.
I agree. Pleasure is the actuality or contemplation of going towards ultimate survival. The more you know about the mind the better it’s gotta be!