WHAT REASON?

The word is ‘reason’. It has been floating round my brain for several days. My reason reasons that reason is the reason I reason as I reason, which I reason is the reason I reason. I could go on reasoning. By virtue of a simple thought, the impetus if you like, assuming I am of sound mind, of  an idea, I deduce that I can arrive at some rational conclusion to this circular conundrum. Thinking is something we all do non-stop. I know, from just reading, listening, and exchanging information with relatives, friends and acquaintances, that many human beings have similar feelings and philosophies on modes of living, and express them in a similar fashion or in different ways amounting to the same thing. We often see eye to eye. 

As to the manner of developing and sustaining these modes of living, the evolutionary process that has developed amongst human beings has created some 193 independent states and some 7164 languages. That’s averages out at 37 languages per nation. Is there any wonder that with so many different modes of expression it is difficult to come to a common understanding? Yet, nonetheless we more often than not see eye to eye. That is my hope as well as my despair. With so many souls striving to reach some sort of social contract to sustain and develop  their own way of living and continuing survival, it seems extraordinary that the planet has made it this far. Nonetheless it has survived despite pollution and horrific natural and man made cataclysmic events. However much crap we throw at it, it has remarkable resilience. Time though, is running out. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives.

Which is why, the leadership of nations, having, for some obscure reason, turned once again towards fascism, dictatorship and total social control, and having embraced climate denial in the extreme, must be stopped and challenged at every turn. 

So when I see in the Guardian, the likes of Simon Jenkins, even suggest that Donald Trump should somehow be praised for attempting to broker a peace deal in the Middle East and between Ukraine and Russia, I am bewildered. There is nothing laudable about a man who only thinks in terms of enriching himself in total disregard for the rest of humanity. He flatly denies the climate crisis. He cares not one jot for his own citizens health care or constitutional rights. He parades around the world like a tin pot Mussolini. He pretends to want peace only in order to garner a gold emblem and  a million dollars in the guise of a Nobel Peace Prize. He has even gone so far as demanding it. If given, he’ll put it on the wall and do nothing whatsoever to merit it. This is a con man in cahoots with Putin, Orban, Netanyahu and any other would be hooligan in South America, in Asia or Africa. 
 

He has no redeeming features that merit applause. He is a complete narcissist supported by a mendacious and ultimately evil cabinet and congress claiming allegiance to the Constitution and what once was the Republican Party. It no longer exists. That he has access to the power of the United States military is the greatest danger to the planet. I heard Sir Philip Pullman during an interview on Radio Four Today program, clearly state the horror of Trump and that he must be called out. Of course he is but one voice, but it is time for the western European nations in particular to step up and call out this man for what he is and stop the mollycoddling. What reason can they possibly have for not doing so? 

I still have hope. I promise.