Tom DeLonge Comments on the Coronavirus Dilemma
It has been close to two months since I’ve written anything on here—primarily due to the fact that TTSA news has been relatively quiet. (I have also been writing for The Post Millennial, if you’re interested in checking out some of my other material.)
The coronavirus has all but monopolized the news cycle. But that is not to say there isn’t some TTSA-related material bubbling under the surface.
Tom DeLonge has taken to Twitter only a handful of times in the last couple months, but today he sent out a few tweets, laying out his thoughts on the coronavirus and the (potential) solution to what we’re currently facing.
It goes without saying that the US has been ill-equipped in facing something of this magnitude. We have consistently been short on supplies, and the policies implemented in order to stifle the spread of the virus has been mediocre at best. (While much of this falls back on the current administration, there are plenty of individuals [thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands] who have deliberately neglected the demands of medical professionals.)
Here is what DeLonge had to say on the matter.
The seemingly modest request of every country in the world relinquishing their military in an effort to form a one-world government is beyond utopian.
The relations between China and the US is enough to fan the flames of war for ten lifetimes. Countries in the Middle East have been at war with each other for over two millennia—all based on a difference of ideology.
These ideologies and political differences are values countries choose to die for.
How does one go about convincing a people group to stop killing another people group they perceive as being scum of the earth? It has never become a global reality, and I don’t anticipate it happening…ever.
What’s more is that a country’s ideologies are, a lot of times, driven by values they believe exist outside the planet (ie God/Allah). How is any rational person going to calm the waters when there are ideologies based on the belief that it’s a deity’s wishes that its adherents bring about Armageddon or Sharia Law (and countless others)?
It is also uncertain where DeLonge gets the random $1 trillion dollars from.
Human beings, as a whole, do not have an interest in maintaining the earth and its resources. The vast majority of environmentalists and “green people” are nevertheless using the same resources they believe are killing this planet.
Many things are so easily said, but not so easily resolved.
I wholeheartedly agree with DeLonge’s sentiment about the “us vs them” mentality. It is a shame that we hate each other so much, yet would benefit from each other in defeating a common enemy.
(I am all for treating this disease as a wartime threat. Gathering manufacturing plants that usually make a random commodity and instead making masks, hand sanitizer, and ventilators would be a good use of resources, in my view.)
And I agree with this final statement by DeLonge. We will make it through this, as we have with every other threat. The issue is that it comes at the price of potentially hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of lives being lost in the effort.
