Trouble on Oiled Waters

These midwinter eruptions in the Arab world look like last spring’s blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling too long and too deep, this time into bedrock psyche, has once again released enormous pent up pressure in nonstop gushes that nobody can contain. The government thugs who’ve entered Cairo’s Tahrir Square are like that crass blowout preventer BP used to squash the energy down. And we all know how marvelously that worked. So in the face of that disastrous strategy, BP had our government Coast Guard set fire to the oil to prevent its spread, a forerunner of the Tunisian despot sending his troops in to fire on the protest spreading through Tunis and the gunfire in Cairo.

When there was oil coated death everywhere there was flora and fauna near the Gulf of Mexico, mainstream news reports concentrated on the rising price of oil and thus the rising fortunes of BP. And now they talk mostly about how the protests are adversely affecting Suez shipping and pricing of oil. What to do? What to do? We care more about the gas in our cars than the gassing of people just trying to live decently because the cars are ours, here and now. We are that stunted.

The latest BP attempt, announced today amid flashes of news from Cairo, to have our government mislead us about the damage that it did by halving the estimate of oil flowing into the Gulf looks like an instant replay of Mubarak blacking out the internet and our blacking out Al Jazeera. Information is power so those who have no moral legs to stand on can only use a power outage to keep their standing.

What unnecessary suffering human beings cause each other being that selfish. Samsara is just instant replay, so sickeningly repetitive it leads to carpal tunnel inflammation of the soul. Om mani padme hung.

~Sandy Garson"Wordsmithing to attest how the Dharma saved me from myself!"
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