Are we also capable of destruction, violence and the opposite of what we surely are here for?
I saw a 2,000 year old Roman ring on a website, intricately carved in reverse was a stone with a 3D bust on it. It was a marvel. Works of art, intricate jewellery and so on point to how amazing we are. Watching the defacement of such things when people protest throws up a dilemma for these very people would be against that sort of thing. BUT they're not.
People are very quick to accuse, threat and act in a manner which go against (I'd suggest) our nature. You let them get away with it and it's an "order" to do it with more force or emphasis. Why people think that this is acceptable is beyond me. Yes, I can get angry but the last thing I'd consider doing is some mindless and random act of vandalism to get my point across.
I suppose I grew up in a country where if you accidentally dropped a sweet wrapper your parents treated it like a Capital offence and you were made to pick it up and deposit it in the waste bins that were in abundance back in the day.
Drive along the roads and you see rubbish thrown out of vehicles and cars, it's not just foreign lorries. The sides of the road look awful in some places and some poor person has to risk their life to clear it up. It's easy enough to take it with you and throw it in a bin that to do this. The people that do it are the world's environmentalists and animal sanctuary supporters etc.
We need to go back to building amazing and beautiful things for everyone's benefit but I despair these days at the way we have sunk to a third world country, the pride has gone, the willingness to do it gone too, we are too busy looking at our handheld devices to notice what is happening and when the batteries run out maybe them we will take our eyes off of these and see the devastation on our own doorsteps.
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