Have we truly evolved as a human race?

Have we truly evolved as a human race 

Or are we still stuck in our hunter stage

Do we truly want to see anyone succeed

Or do we believe when someone succeeds it makes us look bad

Do we spend more energy pulling down those who stick their heads above the crowd

Than we do helping them to raise their heads above the crowd

Do we get more pleasure out of destroying people who are brave enough to make a stand

Than we do at taking a stand ourselves

Have we decided that it is better to be in constant chaos

Than it is to promote peace, love and compassion

I ask these questions because my country is going through yet another watershed moment

A moment when a man, rightly or wrongly, we may never know because of the he / she said stuff happening,has been ousted from a post of honor

A man who has a family as, Liana Hall, so eloquently reminds us in her post about what she experienced as the daughter of a fallen man 

I ask these questions because I am trying to understand our nature 

What drives us at the moment

What makes us tick

Have we become so desensitized to everything because our news has now become like something out of a gossip magazine

Where we  spend more time on style than we do on substance

Where the person who mounts the greatest attack

The most elegant oratory is declared the winner even if what he says makes no sense

Even if what she says may not be true but we want it to be true so we can bring down another person because in doing so it deflects away from our own shortcomings 

We,as a people, need to think seriously about where we are going and what we want from our leaders 

Those we let elect as our spokespeople because they are reflections of who we are as a society

Because they become our collective consciousness because we put them there 

And then when they do something to disappoint,as we all do as human beings, we take absolute glee in destroying them

Bringing them down

Watching them crash

As we dance around their fallen bodies

Like jackals after they have fallen their prey

Forgetting they are of us

Forgetting they have families

Forgetting we put them there

Forgetting we have a lot to answer for ourselves 

So I go back to my first question 

Have we truly evolved as a race

Or are we still the hunters we were when we first stood up

Is the chase sweeter than the capture still to us

And is that why we do all we can to pull down any man or woman who dares to stick his or her head above the rest

A question we all need to ask ourselves as we go through yet another dark day in politics

The politics we help to create

A reflection of us all

A system we help to create

May we find peace

For if we don't what will we become