"New Era In-The-Make"

"Lions for Lambs". One of my favorite movies. Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep. Stunning.

I saw the movie, and of course I understood its meaning. It shows not how different people react to war, like the description says, but it is about how sometimes our status and race might determine our feelings and thoughts. How sometimes we just prefer to look the other way. How we are not capable of putting ourselves in the line, rather we just wait for someone else to do the hard part. How when we must risk in order to do something big, we give a step back. And blame the circumstances, and sometimes, even other people.

But we must ask ourselves the following question everytime we are tempted to do just that:

If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

What if no one else is considering doing the hard work? What if no one ever does it? Am I going to step down too? Instead of exposing myself, what I intend to do, and I am?



The movie quotes something about this. It says somthing like 'I have never seen so many incredible lions ruled by lambs'

This means, I believe, that unfortunately, in this world, sometimes, those who are strong and courageous enough to put themselves in the line, end up following orders of those who aren't even capable to give a one hundred percent. By those, that are only seeking for their own comodities and interests rather than the really important purposes for which the workers (or lions) actually work for. How everything we humans do with our hands, we destroy it with our feet.

We need a world ruled and lived by lions. By people that are able to engage. Like the two students in the movie that enlisted to go to warm stated. What America needs is the engagement of all. We need to all work for each other and for a better whole.

We can't still live with the American dream of being rich and living in a big white house in the suburbs. There has to be a new American dream. I believe this economic recession and new politics have shown us that much. America needs change. The dream, has to now be different. It has to be of a place were the poorest has the indispensable food, health and education. Of a place were rich don't exist to exploit others, rather to help them climb. I don't mean socialism. I don't mean the equality of all men. I mean the equality of opportunities and rights. In social justice. The stretch between extremely liberal and exploitive capitalism and a mediocre socialism.

It is time to keep going. It is time to not look backwards but forward. Time to forget and forgive. A time for brand new beginnings and opportunities. If we accept this change, and work with it, the benefits will be countless. We must learn from the past mistakes and evolve.

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must change or else pay more for remaining the same"

WG