Bloodthirsty Anyone...?

Oh my gosh, has the world gone mad? No I think it probably always has been... So Colonel Gaddafi got killed, but do we really need to celebrate it across the front pages of our 'civilised' publications? Do we need to shout out about revenge. Do we need to see the bloody, brutal details? Doesn't this reak of hypocrisy? Doesn't our societies tolerance and celebration of this bloodthirsty, vengeful act send a shiver up your spine?

And if you doubt the hypocrisy here consider this. Yesterday I heard that Britney Spears had been lambasted by politicians for being insensitive. Her new music video, shot in London, features her holding a gun. Her insensitivity is apparently related to the London Riots. And yet, it's OK to parade images of a shot, bloodied up dead man all over the country. So one day we have alleged gun related 'insensitivity' and then the next day the sordid, vivid details of what guns can do is deemed appropriate for front pages and indeed is celebrated. Something ain't quite right here...

In THHGTSL I talk about Dumb Culture. I think that this little chapter of our history could well fit into that section of my book. I can't help feeling like I'm in the middle ages watching an execution. The thing is, back then executions were entertainment, street theatre. And as I pass blood soaked copies of red top newspapers outside newsagents, at the height for any passing toddler to see, I can't help think that we have again gotten sucked again into a carnival of cruelty.

Irrespective of what Mr Gaddafi may be guilty of there is no need to sensationalize, publicise and hype up his brutal death. Well there is a need, a need to fuel the coffers of the media. And that my lovely Soulies is Dumb Culture in action.

Karma has her way with us all in her own time. I have faith and first hand experience in that. I'm not sure if Gaddafi got his Karma, but I do know that revenge is an act of anger and hate. And because of all that anger and hate I am sure that Karma is being dosed out by the barrel today.

We live in a partially sucky world. Other parts of this life are miraculous, beautiful, astonishing. I will choose to take a think about them next time I see glorified murdered corpses littering the covers of our established and respected broadsheets. I will not join the goon squad baying for blood and revenge. News is news, I don't want to live in denial, but what I saw today was nasty.

That's my outrage done and dusted. I don't have an answer to this, it's too big a thing to deal with on a Friday evening. Peace and love are my only 'go to' answer, and somehow, right now, I think they are far from may people's hearts. I will hold them tight in mine, as I am sure you will in yours. And that, I hope, will be enough for now.

Beyond that I will practice some forgiveness, Goddess bless everyone involved victims, perpetrators and journalists just trying to make a dollar. Goddess bless us all.

From dresses to darkness in one fell swoop

In total opposition to my last post about dresses, here is something a little darker to get your teeth into...

We live in our little worlds of our own makings... We sit on our sofas, watch our TV's and if we are lucky we talk to our angels. This thing is life is not all ice-cream, eastenders and crushes on inappropriate rockstars. Life is adarned hard place to be. Everyone reading this will have their own set of crummy circumstances to contend with. SOme of us will have suffered real pain and heartaches in our lives. And perhaps these pain and heartaches have led us to the place we are at now.

So what about the war torn countries and the horrifc stories you sometimes read in the news, or on sites like Amnesty International. What about all the world's cruelties and human rights abuses. What about the world of pain that exists on the other side of our four walls and silk taffeta curtains form Laura Ashley?

Well in The HIgh Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living I address chaos, darkness and difficulties in some of it's awful forms. As spiritual folks we kinda have to reckon on the fact that all things are spiritual. That's my theory anyway. Sometimes those spiritual things are also horribly painful. But even looking back on your own life, those darknesses that have visited you, have all made you who you are today. It is often the death and destruction that forces the light of love and lovely spirtuality in to our existence.

Whilst I would never deign to suggest that anyone 'deserves' their pain and torture, perhaps we still all benefit from each other's pain. Perhaps those people in war torn countries are suffering so that as individuals and as a planet we can progress. So that we can outrage against what is happening to them. So that in the future they can have a knowing voice that speaks out against evil regimes and cruelty, and that in turn helps make the world a better place. Perhaps those people undergoing mad pain and suffering have in some ways volunteered for that, knowing that their survival and their braveness in the face of untold horror can help make the planet a better place. If that is the case then those brave souls are more special and more powerful than Buddha, Jesus or Gandhi himself in their sacrafices for the rest of human kind. It is through the eyes of their pain that humanity will become closer.

So maybe there is spiritual sense in even the darkest of moments. We are all here for each other, and it is through the bad as well as the good that we will raise our consciousnesses, spread our wings and rise like a phoenix to a better version of humanity than we can even imagine right now.

Big love to all of those suffering, and may we all rail against it to create a new peace.