As each day unfolds, with yet another series of grim casualty statistics, bomb reports, explosions, and atrocities, it seems that we longer have any real sense of the true scope and depth of the unfolding tragedy that is the (so called) 'war on terror'. Instead our language, tone, and even our belief systems are altering and reshaping themselves to accommodate the barbarism, and to 'normalize' the terror, and somehow in the process of doing so, we are becoming ever more immune to both the corpses and the consequences.

The mutilated infrastructure of our civil societies has changed beyond recognition in the last five years, and the fallout is everywhere to be seen. From the repressive legislative agendas of our governments, to the shattered consensus of old-world values, the humanitarian ideals we adhered to, (or thought we did), are now being rapidly consigned to the rubbish heap of our collective past under a deluge of secret arrest, torture, and endless warfare.

Cities, towns, and villages are leveled by wave after wave of blanket bombing. Whole regions are poisoned by the irreversible human and environmental disaster of depleted Uranium tipped shells, and tens of thousands of individuals have been killed, injured or displaced. How many of these victims can truly be said to have been 'terrorists' and how much of this insanity can our leaders permit in our name? Thus far, the answer seems to be that there are no longer any moral limits, and that the battle and the bloodshed are only set to increase.

Economies and resources are being ruined and looted in the name of 'democracy' and 'liberation', and blatant lies are being manufactured and paraded as truths. All of this happens without any outcry, and without any great resistance to its implementation. The 'plan' it seems is most definitely in effect.

An ideological 'fence' has been placed around the borders of this 'conflict'. The parameters for the next stage of the game set in place, and there is a terrible sense of foreboding and resignation about the next series of events likely to occur in this war. It is all becoming terribly normal, and every day it seems as if our societies are coming closer to world where atrocities are commonplace, and are simply part of the price we must pay to secure a supposedly safer world.

Do we really care?

Do you believe in this 'war' dear reader? Are you firmly convinced of the validity of the  arguments upon which it is founded? Does doubt not cloud your mind, when you see that those selling the package, and directing the herd, are themselves discredited liars, thieves, and manipulators of the democratic process that they so staunchly claim to uphold and defend? Does it in any way unhinge the carefully sealed box of consensus reality, that holds your faith and trust in those who claim to best represent you, when you witness the atrocities they commit in your name?

For myself, I find it impossible to concede that the arguments, assumptions, and manipulations of those who daily murder the truth can or are correct or honest, or that the 'surface' appearance of things, which they so carefully craft for us in nicely wrapped info-bytes, and news-casts are truly representative of reality.

We are being led like sheep, by those who believe they have the right and the responsibility to 'shepherd the herd'. With each faltering step towards the pen of our ignorance, we accept greater and greater levels of moral degeneracy, and ignore more of the awful reality that those prepared to poison and slaughter the flock in one field, will have no great degree of difficulty shearing and slaughtering the rest should the need or desire to do so arise.