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Hedonistic Hate

When we compare the numbers and percentages of innocent, trusting lives lost in significant part because of Christian militarized capitalized patriarchal monotheistic judging fundamentalism, punishing Afghanistan and other Islamic cultures over the past four or five decades, To the number and percentage of innocent economically and politically trusting lives lost in significant part because of Moslem militarized capitalized patriarchal monotheistic vengeful fundamentalism, punishing the U.S. and other NorthWestern Christian cultures The outsized scale of human and darkening environmental casualties in brown Afghanistan does not redeem Bin Laden's terrifying success on 9/11. But, this difference in chronic ballistic stress does suggest why a well-capitalized terrorist was able to garner so much economic and political support from those already too familiar with sudden tragic violent loss of family and friends. This is not to say U.S victims and non-victims (should there be any) asked for vengeful death nor deserved such tragic excruciating loss, But these same losses may remind us we, as a democratically healthy responsible wealthy nation, a polycultural society, could have listened with more extensive bilaterally compassionate ears and mass mediated eyes, to the rapacious horror, loss, trauma, fear, anger, hate, chronic anxiety, post- and pre-traumatic stress disorder Perpetuated by militarized capitalized patriarchal monotheistic dogmatic RightWing LeftBrain dominant privilege elitism supremacy autistic autocracy greedy kleptocracy dissociative denialism Doubt in cooperative polycultural powers of global compassion love actively provoking hope, healthy trust in win/win global resolutions. Within these powers of seasonably healthy reason, perhaps we could have heard, as Albert Einstein so impatiently exhorted, to do more of the mighty same of what is tearing us terrifyingly apart, is our distressing height of straight white anthroprivileged ignorance.

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