NFTNIF Supplemental - Wake-Up Call.
How many people here own their house - and how many have a mortgage, or live in a rental? How many people own their cars, and how many have a car payment, and trade in the car for a new one with it's fresh and probably larger car payment? How many grow their own food, make their own clothing, and how many have to shop for them every week or season? How many of us, if we lost or left our jobs, would be on the street, bereft, hungry, penniless, or have to depend on a government program which is under continuous attack, or the charity and kindness of family, friends and strangers, a church or social organization? Why is it that we buy food from companies that refuse to tell us what that food contains, and this is allowed to go on? Why is it that we hemorrhage our national treasure on wars that resolve nothing, save no one, kill our young men and women and the people of distant lands, expend resources and consume ingenuity, crowding out education, repairs to our bridges, roads, and other vital infrastructure? How can we placidly continue to rape and ravage the earth, seas and sky, displacing the nature we view with such pleasure on pictures, TV and on brief vacations?
How have we become so removed from perception of our common humanity that we can easily hate and despise and destroy people who we have never met? Why is it that we can continue to channel ever-slenderer resources toward researching more ingenious and impersonal methods for murder and war, while neglecting and forgetting research and work on the things that enhance and enrich life? How can we not notice that those inventions are INEVITABLY turned against us to ensure our continued compliance with the world-destroying system that espouses them?
Why is it that if the government ordered all men to begin wearing purple dresses, there would be a revolution overnight, but when we are dragged into war we go so willingly and give our children so open-handedly to the meat grinder?
Why is it that we fall reflexively back on resentment and prejudice to justify our collective inhumanity? Why do we continue to insist on dealing with things in ways that have proven not work? Why do we permit our government to place its colossal foot upon us and lean ever more heavily upon and meekly pay for the privilege of having our liberty shredded in exchange for security that never arrives? Why do we pay lip service to those who have died for freedom and then meekly surrender it at the first opportunity? Why are we so proud of ignorance and intolerance?
How can people believe in God and completely ignore everything we are told He wants us to do? Take care of the poor, the sick, the children - yet complain every time someone suggests that we have to spend money or time or attention to do so?
I am not aware of any country which has ever refused a war.
I see us following, inexplicably, the foul road to annihilation every other empire in history has ever trod.
How can we be so involved in our gladiatorial contests, our little self-serving feelings of superiority, our gadgets and disastrous distractions and be unwilling to spend an hour a day keeping ourselves informed on the workings of our government? A nation built by immigrants has become utterly hostile to immigration. A country based on freedom seems to long for the firm hand of any tyrant which promises safety from a world stimulated to hostility against us by our own policies.
How can we blindly ignore the brutal suppression of choice and self-determination forced upon our mothers and daughters and sisters? How can we wink at the dehumanization and even murder of women everywhere including in our own beloved country? Honor killings, wife-beatings, exhaustion through repeated child-bearing, but contraceptives are evil? Why is it permitted that women be bullied, cowed, murdered and manipulated by a few men who laugh at us from behind their pillared and walled compounds? How did we get to the point that we no longer believe our children will have a better life than we do - but most people would violently attack anyone who suggests a different course than the road to poverty and servility we are so obviously embarked upon?
Why do we meekly acquiesce or actually aggressively enable the theft of our national and global resources, the singling out of small groups, one by one who are stripped of the right to vote, or eat, or even live?
Facing up to the situation in which we find ourselves is terribly hard - but ignoring it will be harder still.
Why do we so easily swallow lies when a modicum of education would expose the lie for what it is - a cynical program to keep us divided and content with a pittance?
We developed drones for warfare abroad, because this impersonal method of warfare spares our lives, and soon those drones will be everywhere in our own skies.
Everywhere you look, peoples who are as alike as two flowers growing in the same field are turned implacably against each other, while the owners of munitions factories take profits from both sides, impartially, caring nothing for anything, no country, no ideal, no religion except profits, continuous and ever-increasing?
How can people think our government is Marxist or socialist when Wall Street is fatter than ever - the great recession wiped out trillions of dollars of wealth for retirees, workers, small investors, but there is more wealth than ever now - and int he hands of fewer and fewer people?
Haliburton can lie, and steal and kill and undermine the governments of countries our people are dying to establish - wars are started based on lies and we turn away and tune into our favorite shows.
Why would people adore the hand that strikes them but reject their own children for trying to realize their own natures?
Why are we content to play games and refuse to do something to change the world for the better?
We consume poison and thank our poisoners, we watch our share of the country's wealth vanish and snarl savagely at those who try to warn us, we cling to the idea that we are different and better, yet refuse to take a responsible portion of our governance, content to let the thieves run everything. We lost control over our own money long ago with the establishment of the Federal reserve, and now another chunk of our sovereignty is being negotiated away in the Trans Pacific Partnership and not 10 of my HUNDREDS of FB friends bothered to learn anything about it.
We squabble with persons of different ethnic backgrounds, religion, party or skin color, while the people who care for nothing except having more of everything stoke the fires and keep us divided and proud of our divisions.
America can never be defeated by a foreign enemy, it will be betrayed from within by those who care nothing for country - only their own wealth and privileges while stripping us of all of both.
We are so busy determining what is good for each other we have lost sight of our own self interests. Why should anyone care what I smoke, or have sex with, or read or believe or who I marry.
The Romans at least had bread and circuses, we are busy denying each other the bread while we throng the circuses.
Our real masters could not be more pleased with us - we are doing their work for them and paying for the privilege, paying with our liberty, our small wealth, our very lives.
If you care about your own children, your neighbors or even YOURSELF, I beg you to wake up and look at what is happening, put aside meaningless differences and demand that we move toward a more sustainable and equitable world - I fear we re in the last hours of mankind as a rational species.
If you took the time to read this- thank you - if not - good luck.
For some ideas on how to create a sustainable and equitable society - watch
www.thrivemovement.com
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