Dear Editor,
Writing to one's congressman or any public official is completely useless.
Congressmen and public officials are not in office to solve the problems of their electorate. Rather, they serve the corporate entities that helped elect them. More often than not, one's letters are processed by interns who then reply with a standard letter which has no relevance or bearing to one's original correspondence.
At very best, these so called "public servants" will stir at only the most impressive of public actions and mass correspondences. In the unlikely event that a "public servant" read his/her own mail, it is a regrettable fact that few humans will reject a lifetime of social training solely on the basis of an appeal to their intellect or emotions. This is made worse when the issue at hand seems far removed or does not immediately impact them.
Given this, with our common goal to have peace for human kind we, ordinary people, must remove the impetus for violent conflict. Since the dawn of our species, mankind has struggled to secure and control the choicest of natural resources. Unfortunately, the finite nature and uneven distribution of these resources, coupled with the desire to have them, all of them, has always lead to war.
Now, having been mainly successful in securing the greatest share of this planet's natural bounty by whatever means necessary, "the first world" is engaged in maintaining its wasteful, inefficient, and luxurious way of life. In doing so, we are threatening to destroy the complex environment, social and physical, which supports human life. Should we do nothing to stop this, we will come to understand the true meaning of apocalypse and see the demise of our species.
But thankfully, the solution is in our hands. Virtually overnight, without any political intrusion and through communal and individual action on a purely local scale, we can starve the war machine that is starving so many. This war, like many others has been caused because we as Americans, among others, enjoy the insidious comforts of stolen prosperity such as excessive driving, consuming products packed in disposable containers and fueling urban sprawl by buying, new, poorly constructed homes in what used to be forests, marshes, and plains.
Morris A. Gevirtz
Senior
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