Keep your eye on the monkey

I expect I'm not the only one who finds this picture amusing. However I don't think there are too many people out there who look at this and immediately see a comparison to American government. Like I said before I don't keep up with politics very much. Practically everything I know I learn from the Colbert Report so most of it is commonsense with a satirical spin. Most that goes on in government is fairly black and white to me, there aren't too many issues that I don't stand on one side or the other, but there is only one trait that I both love and hate about America. That trait is our need to get involved with everything that goes on in this world. America cannot rest easy until it is in the middle of any fight or tradgity that materializes. America has an ever present desire to help others and it's this much that I appreciate, but often we stick our noses where they don't belong. I love the saying "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." because thats what we are always trying to do. Leading is great and we're fully capable to do that but when we hold their head underwater long enough we are either going to drown them or get trampled. In the case of America it constantly creates more problems for itself through the problems of others, a big part of them financial. They dive in so fast to fix what they see as a problem that they don't take time to think about the consequeces or to notice that there's monkey with a stick right behind them. Like America we should all have a desire to help others, but unlike America we should first think about how far our influence can go without bringing devistating consequences upon ourselves. Our govenment isn't perfect and our understanding about the situations of others aren't perfect either. The sooner we realize our inabilities the sooner we can successfully help those around us. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I wish Donovan would stop trying to fix me.