Thoughts on Lybia

Have you read the Aladdin stories with the same fascination I have? A clever girl kept alive in a cruel environnement ( a sultan who beheaded every girl after one night) by telling stories.

We love stories. Even the bloody ones. For the lands of the great sultans is again in turmoil, with many dead people. Who is to blame? 

If you blame this colonel, who reigned for over 40 years, has he not been a darling of the stories told to us? has he become unpleasant to some story-tellers, who got rid of him after so many y ears? Will an even more sever ruler make this place a more friendly one? Unlikely. Those who kill tyrants will often be crueler then the ones gotten rid of. 

Learn from history. And wouldn’t I maybe do the same thing? Would you, if you could rule a country, not try to make sure, that everybody did what you thaught right? Being so well-meaning and powerful…. wouldn’t you consider the money just a small due for so much pain? Coming in handy? 

Those who judge hashes are often those, who would rule harder, for the soft-speaking people don’t stand up. 

Had God appointed this end? To what end? This end of an era leaves a lot of questions unaswered. Like: Who paid for all those weapons? Where do they come from? Who trained all those on warpath? Who will be the winner in the end? The poor? Certainly not.

Look at history. Not the poor stood up in France against the king and his court but the well-educated, including a lot of aristocrats. Did life get better afterwards? For whom? 

Is it more than a story to us? A new form of entertainement, fuelled by the disasters of this world? Are we much the same than that sultan, beheading everyone unable to entertain us? Who’s to blame?