“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Most citizens of the modern world; whether consciously or subconsciously, are living with a significant burden of guilt. Some are genuinely ignorant, some just don’t care, but most of us are harboring needs and desires which we are simply not ready or willing to surrender. Our eyes wish not to see, our ears prefer not to hear, and our minds chose not to act. Yet, every day we are directly or indirectly participating in global torture, causing unthinkable suffering and mass murder.

5 sins of moral blindness:

1. Supporting mass consumerism and production of cheapest goods, which are unethically manufactured through annihilation of our planet’s natural resources and keeping millions of underprivileged, and often under-aged citizens, in oppressive poverty.
2. Supporting large corporations and governments, who are manipulating local and global communities into purchasing overpriced and often harmful products and services such as medicine, food, financial debt and other, in order to satisfy our demand for jobs (money), security and many comforts.
3. Supporting the breeding and torture of animals, cultivated for food consumption in appalling conditions, causing them inconceivable cruelty and mass-slaughtering them for their meat.
4. Supporting laws, policies and wars: local, national and international, which are unjust, unfounded and designed to promote inequality, disorder and separation of humanity into disoriented units.
5. Supporting major media channels which have merged into monopolizing corporations with a view to spread misinformation and manipulate mainstream opinion.

In fifty or perhaps one hundred years the new generations will look back and what they will see is several billion of reckless savages, acting out of greed (or laziness) to earn money and pay for security and comforts. Our achievements and failures will be recorded in history textbooks and the student’s will reflect on our era with mixed feelings of disbelief, embarrassment and sadness. Their pity will perhaps not be as much for the damage and the suffering caused by our dysfunctional behavior, but for us, the twenty first century human race, who blindly believed ourselves to be civilized, honorable and humane.