Notre Dame - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

   
      We all saw the recovery in the name of donations after the famous French Cathedral Notre Dame caught fire.  Within 24 hours donations tallied $500 Million Euro.  What does this say of mankind?

  People seem to think that the Holocaust they're living under in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, among other Nations, are self inflicted.  Are we to believe that the Church Notre Dame is worth more than civilization itself?  This hypocrite oath that we live under in 2019 disgusts me.  Couldn't we focus on building up these aforementioned Nations instead of the current sentiment that dictates that their lives don't matter, and that we need to pay for the ultra-elites Tabernacle.

  What is needed is to be pro-active towards human healing.  Our youth buy into ideas that are passed on by their Parents and Grandparents.  The reality is that most people only care about their own ecosystem.  Many disregard human rights in their quest for success, and most are guilty of looking down on the downtrodden.  The parable 'to the victor goes the spoils' has been said of pretty much any war that's been fought.  Wasn't it the Nazi's that called for the extermination of Jews, Muslims, and Blacks?  Now we see Israel in that region in the World and they've become the aggressors against the Palestinian People in the name of Apartheid.  This is in a land that saved the Jewish peoples' hide in 1910-1915 by taking in 600,000 Ashkanazi Jews that were expelled from the U.S.S.R and taken in by Palestine.

  When Western Civilization comes to terms with its' narcissistic, me first attitudes we will see changes in the World.  Most people look down at a man who busks on the street to make a few bucks.  Likewise that of a homeless man who begs for change.  They site their laziness as reasons to look down on them, instead of wondering for a second what that person has to go through in the average day.  We've become an apathetic society in the Western World that has zero-rachmunis (Yiddish word for Compassion) to those that suffer.  

  While musicians stood up in the name of Band Aid, We Are the World, and Tears Not Enough in the mid-eighties, the staying power of the sentiment wasn't expanded on the way it should have been.  Why did artists lose their ability to communicate what an artist is supposed to communicate.  What's Going On?  Had musicians continued to bring light to the atrocities that are faced in the Fifth World we would be looking at a different scope.  The reality is that many people live with a hatred of Blacks in America today.  This is systematic to the States inaction to stop how Blacks are treated by the authorities, even in 2019.  'White Privilege' some would say.  It leaves one to wonder why this hasn't changed since it's authoritative policies in place.

  Is the Cathedral Notre Dame to be honoured? the answer is yes.  To be treated as more important than human life itself? No.  To be honest it's good to see people care, it's just that our priorities are way off kilter.  What about the good people that are out there indiscriminant of race, colour, and creed?