Reactionary

I’ve long resisted saying anything about the Florida woman since it has become such a media zoo and I’ve been on the busy and dizzy side thanks to my married boyfriend (a joke, people, a joke). I’ll be brief.

Congress had no business interfering and protesters who insist the national legislature should have done more are so wrong they can’t even see it. This system of government depends on a more or less equal share of power between the three branches which are (in case you’ve forgotten) the executive, the judicial, and the legislative. One cannot, must not override another. The way they effectively cancel each other out unless there is cross-branch agreement is the foundation this system of government is based on. No, it’s not efficient government since a lot of talk and vacillation happens before anything gets done. But if you want efficient government, look to a dictatorship. Now that’s efficient since no one’s opinion matters, no one’s voice needs to be heard. Something is decided and quickly done. Choose. The democracy so fawned over by champions of rhetoric, or an efficient dictatorship. It’s yet another example of how people are never satisfied with anything. What is a shame is how the whole thing was used as a prop by so many politicians eager to get some public approval points.

Another axis of the continuing circus is the whole protest movement. People cried as if they’d lost a relative today which I find rather odd. People are so quick to take another’s experience, Xerox it, posterize it, and wave it around in some strange attempt to give their own lives meaning, as if to say, “I stood for something.” Go home, people. Go be with your own families, hug your own children. Your time is best spent there. I hope kids aren’t being neglected because Mom decided she needed to put red tape over her mouth and carry signs around outside a Florida hospice. The man who tried breaking into the hospice with a glass of water was bizarre. Maybe he needs a mental health assessment. Freaks crawl out of every crack which is a massive disgrace to the people in the middle of the whirlwind. Even odder yet demonstrative of what kind of a madness has seized this sick society are the death threats friends and family of Michael Schiavo and the judges who settled in his favor have received. Someone’s so irate about some woman they don’t know being so-called “starved to death” that they’d kill someone over it? If that makes sense to you, run to the nearest psychologist you can find as you too may be delusional.

Why are people so upset about the whole thing when at the same time they don’t blink when leaving their children to let themselves into the house after school because they’re too busy at work to be there? People are just too afraid to die. They’re so afraid (even if it’s inevitable as the ancients knew so well) that they’d rather watch someone drooling, moaning, and pissing themselves rather than let that person just cross the great divide already. People are under the delusion that medicine can cure everything, that it’s as easy to figure out as a mathematical equation. No, it isn’t. At best, medicine is a good guess. That’s it. For every medical miracle you hear about, there are a hundred more that didn’t make it. That’s what makes the “miracle” unique. For it’s ineptitudes, medicine has gone far enough that it can keep a body turning oxygen to carbon dioxide almost indefinitely in cases. And that’s where cases like this come into play. It gives people delusions and false hope and we’re stuck with a growing population of people who breathe but are in no other way alive. And there’s a good dose of guilt many times in that the families of the nearly-deceased feel they’d hate themselves if they hadn’t done everything (no matter the cost or fruitlessness of it) and there’s often a weird cock-strutting effect of one party trying to show the other party that they love the nearly-deceased more. And so it rages in every hospital in every state in the unraveling Union. Medicine has gone too far when it refuses to say “no” and fosters these situations to continue. It isn’t killing anyone, it’s allowing the inevitable to happen in a less proud, less arrogant, less ignorant way. Let it go. Relinquish control of some things.

Most disgraceful is how this story has shoved out of the spotlight other stories like the huge earthquake in Indonesia, three months after thr Christmas quake and tsunami. It’s shoved to the left column and page B space in newspapers. Hundreds of people died. Hundreds more homeless and yet somehow that’s not as important as some family feud in Florida. There are billions of people in this world who would love to have our problems, if only from a break of their existences of back-breaking labor, poverty, and disease. People are flipping out about a brain-damaged woman having medical measures withdrawn while millions can’t get a clean glass of water. Millions.

And as a post scriptum, contrary to what the news has said about the Schindler’s Catholic beliefs making cremation not an option, that is completely false. Read the new catechism, people, for goodness’ sake! Get educated. The Roman Catholic Church has no problem with cremation nor does it think withdrawing medical treatment is wrong. What kind of church do these people go to? There’s a real thing and there’s a weird folkish, near-paganism as well. In this day and age, there’s minimal excuse for being uneducated if you’re literate. Educate yourself on the real thing.

Posted on March 31st, 2005 under News •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed