The Great Mother is crying a
river over the kidnapped girls in Nigeria, and the people in pain in Ukraine – and
these are only humanity’s current firespots, their erupting volcanoes. So many sore spots on the body of humanity
for Her to cry over, all simmering and oozing blood and pain behind closed
doors.
On the other hand, it’s
important to remember that some humans are doing okay, and that’s why you see
the happy picture above. We all need to
stay happy as possible, otherwise we get dragged down – and then
what good are we to anyone?
Believe it or not, the Mother
is even crying for those Nigerian monsters in the Boko Haram (although don’t
get me wrong: she’s in a murderous rage over their tactics). “Boko Haram” is Hausa for “Westernization
is sacrilege.”
And it’s no wonder Boko is bitter about the
West. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Westerners forced
Africans into Western ways, helping them rip off Africans’ minerals and oil faster. Some Africans today – including Boko – are understandably
POed about this.
“While news reports reference Boko Haram's vehement rejections of westernization, it's important to remember that these long-harbored feelings didn't magically appear and British colonialism is the reason that these feelings exist in the first place.”
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