  Not literally, of course, otherwise you'd have seen me on TV this morning being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by Senor Dubya himself.
No, it happened in my dream last night. Which I find strange, as I don't necessarily hate Osama Bin Laden so much that I'd want to kill him personally, especially using only bare hands and a garden hose. While I think it'd be a good thing if all members/leaders of extremists groups (ie: the Far Right, the Far Left, Feminazis, Fundamentalist Christians, Al Qaeda, Vegans, PETA, etc) would chill the fuck out , I certainly don't wish death upon them.
I think it's kind of a bad thing to wish death upon anyone; however, I get exhausted and infuriated with preachy assholes who can't just let the world be - personal belief differences and all. And yet, I don't feel peace is the answer, nor even a remote possibility. There is no cure-all answer, as human beings have been and will continue to be a greedy, self-serving, win-at-all-costs species until every last one of 'em is killed at their own grubby little hands. I look at the sky at dusk and see a beautiful sunset, only to be instantly reminded that the colors I marvel at are there due to man's pollution of the air.
I step outside and feel the warm sun on my skin, only to remember that the excessive burning of fossil fuels is causing the temperature to rise at exponential rates every year. We already have to wear sunblock if we're going to have prolonged exposure to the sun...eventually we won't be able to go outside at all without something resembling a space suit if we keep up at this rate.
Does all this make me a pessimist? Maybe. It certainly makes me aware. We're always told that what you do with that awareness is the key. However, so many people are either: A) blissfully ignorant of the facts (approx. 90% of the population), B) are aware, yet ignore reality entirely (approx. 9%), C) are aware and struggle every day to make a difference (approx. 0.3%), or D) are aware, yet are exhausted by reality and do the best they can with what they have (approx. 0.7%). I think I can safely say that I fall under the fourth category. It doesn't matter how much I take public transit or walk instead driving of my car, vote, eat only organically grown food, recycle, or conserve energy - one educated person's actions really do not make that big of a difference when the gross majority of the world is a mindless mass of wastefulness.
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