WHAT IS IT ABOUT ANIMAL INSTINCTS? (100)

What is it about ANIMAL INSTINCTS that causes our perceptions to focus fearfully?  Negatively?  Greedily?  And thus, mean-mindedly—all too often?


How often doth the human mind split in two:  fearful on one side, logical on the other?


How could S.S. officers bounce their babies on their knees and kiss their wives before leaving to follow authority's orders, where doing their jobs meant tearing families, innocent of wrong doing, apart, every day?


How many neighbors chose to rifle through the captives' apartments and embrace stolen goods as their own rather than hide a chid marked for extinction?


Is it not enough to know that man/kind must overcome natural disasters?


I do not believe in concentrating on the negative ... on the other hand 


Before we
Can truly connect  with
A sense of positive focus
Mankind must grow aware of this fact:


Human nature
Is naturally bent
Toward
Fear


And as fear
Is naturally bent
Toward
Narrow minded negativity


Then is it not
Imperative to consciously work
At developing positive Focus
Sooner than later?


Whereas
Fearful attitudes
Succumb to mean-mindedness
Repeatedly


Positive attitudes
Overcome fears
Which create warring
Families, neighborhood gangs, international relationships


Below you'll find
A list of articles
Appearing on the first six pages
Of yesterday's newspaper: 


Natural disasters:
Europe:  E. coli is a deadly super bug
Arizona:  Hundreds flee as forrest fires rage on
Joplin:  Death toll from Joplin tornado
South Dakota:  Residents evacuate ahead of dams' water release
Wales:  Blast at Chevron refinery
Oxfam: Cholera surges again in Haitian capital
Saskatchewan:  Military airlifts residents as fire grows
Philly:  Storm-water effort aims at major pollution curbs
Massachusetts:  Killer tornado storms
U.S.A.:  2011 deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950
(And hurricane season is yet to begin ...)


Man made disasters:
Brazil:  Amazon activist is slain in area of logging
San Francisco:  Auction referencing Unabomber ...
Washington:  Air force orders discharge of openly gay service member
Mexico:  Remains of U.S. soldiers of 1846 found
Pakistan:  72 die in border fight
Libya:  Woman gang raped by Gaddafi's troops
Syria:  15 people died in sixth day of sustained governmental attacks
Yemen:  Thousands threaten capital as country deepens battle for power
Iraq:  Kurdish leaders beating protesters to stop demonstrations for reform
Morocco:  Wounds and death result during pro-reform demonstration
California:  Woman describes 18 year abduction, stun gun attacks, brutal rapes
Chicago:  Trial Of Blagojevich—concerning Pres. Obama's vacated Senate seat
Washington:  FBI investigates computer hackers in China
New Jersey:  Gov. Christie owes the state for personal use of police helicopter
South Korea:  Investigates U.S. burying Agent Orange, ground penetrating radar
Tucson:  Follow up article concerning shooting rampage that killed six and injured 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords  
U.S.A.:  NATO led operation against Libya in case rescue of American Service members is necessary


I shudder to think of how many relatives shoot and back stab each other—if not physically, then in subtle (and not so subtle) ways, every day.


If
NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS
TAKE PLACE BECAUSE
MOTHER NATURE HAS TWO SIDES


THEN
DOES IT NOT MAKE SENSE
TO BELIEVE THAT
UPON GAINING INSIGHT


INTO
BOTH SIDES

OF

OUR BRAINS


WE'LL
MUSTER THE COURAGE

TO GAIN CONTROL

OVER NARROW-MINDED THOUGHTS

WHICH
LEAD PEOPLE
EVER MORE
DEEPLY


INTO
THE
DARK SIDE
WHERE


ANGER AND ADVERSITY
CAUSE MAN MADE DISASTERS
TO RUN
FEARSOMELY WILD?


I MEAN—
SERIOUSLY—
HOW MUCH LONGER
WILL WE ALLOW


THE FEARFUL SIDE
OF OUR BRAINS
TO CONTROL
OUR SENSE OF LOGIC?


IF
YOU
ASK
ME ...


IGNORANCE
IS
NOT
BLISS