Sept. 7, 2013 journal entry:

'Naïve Nonsense' 

(on site at the US Open tennis, NYC / definitely a 1ST World venue).  

In lieu of another US-led killing war, let us watch and learn from an epic battle between two countries / sovereigns / powers / spaces ::  

DJokovic vs Wawrinka  

Can we try a US-led peace? Put the armaments on garish-boastful-proud display if we must, if it will help to intimidate the world into peace, but don’t feel WE [USA] can be intimidated into using those weapons of destruction. Walk forward on the tough God-like path to peace. I don’t think Allah is pleased with killing his creations, and I don’t believe my God is either. So all this killing must be the product of human ego, fear, pride, greed, anger, envy, jealousy, sin sin sin … I’d rather struggle peacefully, non-violently for peace. 

Here I am, in a 'first world' arena, watching two ‘warriors’, as the commentators call them - Novak and Stanislas, battle it out on the ‘court’ of competitive tennis … while the Syrian Spector of Killing looms in my mind, my heart … I naively ponder-dream, if a Serb could battle a Swiss on a tennis court for dominance, for control of a title (i.e., 'property', domain), for control (i.e., political, religious), then why not Syria versus the UN on a similar court ? If not a tennis battle, an epic chess tournament... 

Well, I did premise my thoughts with ‘Naive Nonsense’. 

But then (semi-rhetorically), what would we [the world] do with the HUGE HUNGRY POWERFUL weapons industries? What economic incentive could be offered? What profitable, job-saving trade off to turn guns & violence into food & peace? Or, are these industries TOO BIG to FAIL?  

diversionary thought – does the above train of thought (a tennis battle instead of a war) almost support the logic of the Hunger Games plot and its context's political premise? … Do we have a Neanderthal's Choice (my cliché', no offense intended to Neanderthals) here? Sacrifice a few young innocents in some vile game of bloodletting, or, sacrifice thousands in an atrocious political vengeance reaction?

peace...please