Hysterias (i)

What I want to write about is the recent car bombs in London and Glasgow, but I lack the articulacy demanded; and I lack a point, really. Other than the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever. The result of targetting explicitly public places is simply public fear - not governmental policy changes (except to everyone's detriment), not religious or cultural understanding, certainly not human communication. Maybe I lack a point because it lacks one. There's no human gain from the acts, except of course for the leaders of whichever country, organisation or community is committing the violence at the time; but even that gain is tenuous (and heavily reliant on the manipulation by/of the media in every region), and liable to volatile changes. Britain and America are not gaining politically, economically or culturally from their warfare in the Middle East (and elsewhere for that matter). There is no gain for religion. Though too much is made of the Islamic connection, it is one of the forces in play (or at least the violence actively hides under the guise of Islam; and in turn Islam is demonised by much of the West[ern media] and real issues hidden, conveniently for our governments, under its name and outwardly Other conventions). The Qur'an isn't about war or hatred - save a few clauses about defence and proportionate justice (no different to Old or New Testaments, in this sense) - and it certainly isn't about indiscriminate homicide. Devotion to God, 'islam', is not being enhanced in all of this.

Who is getting anything out of this? Who?
Selfish buggers, people are - though I'd argue no more so than any other animal fighting for survival, it's just that our terms of survival aren't quite the same - but capable of some Quite Good things. Why the Quite Good majority aren't now rising up and saying STOP, I have no idea: fear, wilful myopia, ignorance, selfishness, they'll all play a part. But we are capable of overriding all of those, in certain circumstances - now would be quite a good time. Eurgh it makes me so cross...and inarticulate.

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So, now that I've not written about the car bombings (ahem), onwards.