Are we losing?

I've made the mistake of watching the news as of late and seeing all of these horrible things that have been happening all over the world. Most specifically the ugliness of war, as it seems to be everywhere I look. In reflection it makes me wonder if perhaps as a young woman I was just more shielded from the information, or even more terrifying is the idea that things are exactly as they appear and that we as a species are rapidly changing for the worse.

 Its as though the world is loosing its common sense, as nations stand back to allow corporations to destroy natural resources despite the access of renewable energies. Additionally, people killing one another in the name of God, in the name if Their God, as though God were some symbol that stood solely for their hate and misjudgment, and not for the love of humanity that is so quickly drifting further and further from its roots. 

It was the news of the fighter pilot burnt alive that seemed to put me over the edge today, leading to a sudden reaction that I was not prepared for. I burst into into tears at the work place due to sheer frustration. It was the idea that this man died for nothing more then the twisted concept of revenge from someone who's idea of 'justice' is little more than an attempt at filling an endless void of hate.

I am reminded of a poem I once read written by William Blake which seems to frame precisely what I was feeling.

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue to drown the throat of war!
When the senses are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,who can stand?
When the souls of the oppressed fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?
When the whirlwind of fury comes from the throne of God, when the frowns of His countenance
Drive the nations together, who can stand?

When Sin claps his broad wings over the battle, and sails rejoicing in the flood of death;
When souls are torn to everlasting fire, and fiends of hell rejoice upon the slain, O who can stand?
O who hath caused this?
O who can answer at the throne of God?
The Kings and Nobles of the land have done it!
Hear it not, Heaven, thy ministers have done it!