There is an ecology to war. But we do not teach it to our children. They grow alienated and enlist and never learn how the Earth is forced to suffer from the politics of organized human violence.
There is an ecology for peace. But it is unknown throughout the nation, not conscious or considered among the masses. Media participates in this sin of omission. Public education fails, is value-remis, grossly irresponsible, and pedantically misdirecting. The young are taught in the wrong way and for wrong reasons. Were it otherwise, we would not be in this present crucible of affliction. And this is not the first time in a lifetime that America has motored its way along the imperial road to perdition.
Generation upon generation, power remains in the ferocious clutches of an elite of evil intention. Ordinary people become complicit with political mass murder. Everyday in which bombs explode, homes are blown apart, survivors are maimed, lives are shattered, and the death count increases, what ought to be intolerable to a simple standard of decency, continues unexpunged.
Willfully ignorant of the ecology of peace, we the people—banal faces hardened behind masks and turned obscurely toward shadows—roar and rage from killing field to killing field leaving dead zones in the wasteland aftermaths of hypocrisy. We call the technologies of destruction progress and go on patriotically diseased by the fatal, surreal stain of compromise, crime and corruption.
Such is the world we acquest to. Such are the deals we routinely make for petty convenience and landfill commodities. Such are the painted mirrors the civilization of lies addictively stares into. Already we are slave labor locked behind the gates of hell! Yet we continue to pretend we are not. When is enough deception enough?
How pervasive is the cumulative trauma of time? How indelible is the stain of the pornography of betrayal, destruction and the political atrocities of mass murder? When do enough of us tell those who misuse us: “No more!”?
In emergency, truth defines itself in action. Awareness is prelude to what has to follow. How many of us are sensitive still to make happen what “eventfully” has to follow? Who comprehends the reality of the equation which must be changed? Human worth is on the line. Human survival more than not is likely also. The means of annihilation are among the arsenals and political play things of those who believe in the dogma of their right to dominate populations and administer death.
Being human is not an evolution of the physical body only. It is the empathy of shared vulnerable. It is a quality of relatability and the diligent working of imagination with actual possibilities. There is a need in human identity to be clean—for the stain of guilt and shame brought on by financial dispossession, moral rape, corporate plunder, and weaponized bloodshed, to be removed. There is also a need at the core of human self-assessment for freedom. Freedom, which is interconnective from the first instance, requires honesty. Honesty is an act of courage.
David Sparenberg is a humanitarian and eco poet, an international essayist and storyteller. He published four eBooks with OVI Books (Sweden) and the Word Press in 2025, the fourth of which was TROUBADOUR & the Earth on Fire. David will have a fifth new OVI eBook, MANIFESTO: Ecology, Spirituality & Politics in a Higher Octave, published in April 2026. David Sparenberg lives in Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but identifies as an Ecotopian Citizen of Creation.
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