City of evil and tyranny

     Sometimes your own thoughts can be scary. I was really upset by what that man in Washington was doing and thinking of how Washington DC is such a vile city, or at least the symbol of evil and tyranny, because of our government.  I'm very much of a pacifist so my brain came up with the idea of a hurricane sneaking up on Washington while government is in town and wiping it off the map.  Then we could start over.  I immediately felt horrible for all of the innocent people who live in that foul city who would lose their lives and the few in government who are actually trying to do the right thing.  The hurricane would technically remove my guilt, but I still thought it and it demonstrates what I have so often said; viz. humans are the closest thing nature has to a really evil species. I have long been embarrassed and disgraced by my own species. In general we are dirty, destructive, and extremely violent.  The ultimate invasive species. I can definitely relate to the rat named Remy, in the Disney movie Ratatouille, who really didn't want to be a rat.  Like Remy, I have learned that I am what I am and must live with it. 

     I am such a pacifist that the only time in my life that I was willing to strike another person was when I was in the Army being trained to kill at the whim of some old white guys in Washington DC. Once away from the military indoctrination I quickly got over it.      

     Nevertheless, this hurricane thought made me think of the story in Christian's bible (Genesis 18) where Abraham asked God to spare the evil city of Sodom.  Starting with sparing the city if Abraham could find fifty good people, Abraham finally got God to agree to spare the city if he could find ten good people.   

      I have never trusted nor liked any politician, and anyone who knows me well has probably heard me say that government is a necessary evil just because of our over-population.  I would like nothing better than to return to a time when we made decisions by meeting in the village center and talking things out. But we know that will never happen again.  If I had the power to destroy Washington, would I spare it and put up with the horrible behavior of that man for the  sake of the lives of a few innocent people?  Would you?  Are what few humane people who still exist going to perish because we are unwilling to behave like that man in Washington and those who follow him?  If life were a Disney movie we could rest assured that everthing will turn our right.  Life isn't a Disney movie.