Peace Is...Inevitable

By Michael Hall

This is a book of free verse poetry concerning the war-like times we live in and the solution of violence that is used almost on a casual basis. It doesn't have to be this way, we can aspire to other solutions to our international problems and Peace is...Inevitable if we truly believe it to be. We must educate our children and ourselves in the viability of nonviolent solutions and the pragmatic pursuit thereof or we face a continuation of death and destruction not just for us but for the future as well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 12, 2007
• ISBN: 9781465317643

Michael Hall

Michael Hall grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the creator of numerous acclaimed picture books for children, including Frankencrayon, Red: A Crayon’s Story, My Heart Is Like a Zoo, Perfect Square, and It’s an Orange Aardvark!

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Prelude

You have power as an individual that you have no idea about. Each one of us need to know that we can with resolve make a difference for the improvement of our lot here, if we only choose to do so. I understand that you feel instead hopeless and powerless as we are merely cogs in the great machine of society, and yet the opposite is true. If we take it upon ourselves to get involved in the mechanics of society at the governmental and economical levels we could rule instead of being ruled. We have in this day within our grasp the ability to change the world that we live in.

Yet, we are all fooled into believing that we don’t matter or count in the great societies that we live in, which is by design by those in the upper echelon of the social strata. They want you to believe in your own helplessness and impotency as people and citizens so that they can continue to lead us as obedient cattle and sheep, grumbling but toiling and obeying as good little plebeians. A great deal can be done and must be done by us if we are to survive, develop, and flourish.

Time is ticking away faster than we dare to understand. It is too easy to assume that nothing spectacular is going to happen to us as we slavishly, feverishly rush in our fast paced day to day, trying to get done today what was supposed to be done yesterday in our lives of such import. We exist in stifling boxes, smothered in superfluous materialism that we neither need nor can afford buried under the overwhelming weight of credit card debt and easy credit rip-offs oblivious to the damage created to ourselves and what we do to the earth and fellow creatures by our shallow, self-indulgent endeavors.

We have unknowingly turned into self-righteous self-centered, self indulgent globs of ^-witted obedient consuming cattle oblivious to our negative effect upon the world around us with our ears stuck to a cell phone, I-phone, or I-pod walled within our little groups less tolerant of those outside our electronic universe. We become enthralled and blinded

like kids at Christmas time at the latest, greatest, ‘must have’ trinket toy as it becomes available, and then we make some bizarre lemming-like mad dash at the store to be the first to get it, bulldozing any other person in the way. These electronic-playthings are the cigarettes of this generation with the same health cover-up initiated by the manufacturers done by the latter. The marketing glorification of these technological devices have made us addicted to the siren calls and we as consumer’s answer most enthusiastically with rabid abandonment. We have become slaves to technology that we thought would free us.

As vassals we stand on the shoulders of the giants of yesteryear who struggled and toiled through hardships and sacrifices to leave us a easier world to live in and yet we have become spoiled, immature, and unmindful to the pragmatics of the materialism that we strive for and covet with our working souls. Throw the old away in the garbage as you buy the new and don’t give it another thought.

We have now become ostensibly immune and calloused to the suffering of others from situations and events that we see on mainstream tabloid tv news items as mere 30 second bits to be ingested as potato chip stories gobbled up one by one, then forgotten as the next one plays out on every channel milked for all the emotion that it can be squeezed of by some diamond smiling imbecile who claims to be a journalist but is really no more than a q-card reading buffoon who couldn’t spell journalism, let alone define it or practice it. War is sanitized by those who wield it, hide the horror of it and wave the flag as inducement and defense.

The sensationalistic nature of ‘news’ has little depth, no substance, and is very dangerous when it is used as the tool and magic wand of a profit-motivated, syndicated conglomerate that is in cahoots with the government to influence us and dilute and distort the data that we get. No longer is the news media a means to give unbiased information in its entirely. It is now merely a mouthpiece for the landlord and warmongers who simply manipulate a propaganda machine for what they want to us see, hear, think, believe, and do.

Yet what am I to do in this sterile and oppressive wilderness of mediocrity surrounded by blithering, lazy, goose-stepping flag waving patriots who have little inclination to look into the depth of the crime or even care to think for themselves since their pragmatic lives are designed to be just too time consuming and stressful to spend energy on the insanity of national and international policy? Football games and baseball scores are some of our intended distractions in this divide and conquer exploitation, while we ohh and ahh at the latest and greatest electronic toy or auto. It appears that the cattle seem so willing to bleat and follow this path as righteous, patriotic and the American way. When this social manipulation is nothing more than propaganda,cattle prodding and a sociological tool used on the masses in the good name of the uss ship of temporal fools which is a ruse and a cover-up for the real power; the global corporation. And if we allow this nightmare to continue then we are the fools, caged, stupid fools at that.

We need to stand up to this deliberate but inexorable weight of liberty stealing oppression that is strangling our rights and freedoms right before our very eyes, hearts, souls and minds. Decree’s and Act’s are being signed into law bit by bit behind closed doors in the dead of night that give the