|
The Protest against Insane Wealth
Comment on the basis of the "Occupy Wall Street, We are the 99%" protests.
Date: 10/8/2011 5:30:29 PM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 2029 times
"Occupy Wall Street, We are the 99%" is a protest movement that inspires people to take a good long look at the state of our civilisation, at how our economy is structured and governed, and the problems that the wealthy are creating for everyone.
These protesters didn't start out with specific goals or demands, they just knew that something is terribly wrong with our world, and that is has everything to do with money, big money, ultra-wealthy people and corporations and banks and the government they have so much influence over.
Its not that "money is the root of all evil", money is just "the currency of evil" - if you have magnitudes more money than most people do, then you have the currency to express that evil that resides in all people's hearts.
That is why the poor are "the blessed" - they are not influenced by money because they don't have enough of it. We would be if we did... its a human trait.
What the 99% ["we"] are starting to realise is that these elite wealthy people [the 1%] have lost their sense of perspective, and quite possibly their minds.
What would we do if we found that the people we elected to government had all become mentally ill?? We gave them the right to make the rules by voting for them, and then something happened to them. Now what?
The wealthy elites control our government, as is predictable in a capitalist economy because money buys influence. This isn't good. All those people - in government, the wealthy, the corporate culture - have "sold out". You don't "get to the top", or stay there, without buying into the philosophy of greed.
But We are the 99% - it was OUR government who was "unduly influenced by the power of great wealth". We are the majority, by a long shot. It should be our government, but it is no longer ours, the wealthy "bought it".
We are the 99% and somehow we are on the outside. How is that not wrong?
It has gone too far - the wealthy took more and more from "the little people" until the consumer economy started to dry up. The wealthy seem to know no bounds, they keep going in one direction even though a cliff or a brick wall is looming ahead of them.
They took on risky mortgages bundled into nice packages and called them fancy names and they did that until the whole thing collapsed and their banks when bankrupt. They created Ponzi schemes that ran for years but nobody stopped them even though government regulators were fully aware of what was going on.
We are the 99%, and we are getting starting to see that the wealthy are insane.
The wealthy elites and their corporate culture, with the permission of OUR government that they have undue influence over, has wreaked havoc with biosphere earth, and they intend to keep going. They actually believe that the pollution from their factories and oil wells is a good thing and they fully intend to keep growing bigger and bigger. Specific example: the Tar Sands is killing the natives with cancers, draining the Athabasca river dry]creating toxic tailings ponds the size of Florida [much bigger if they leak], and yet they intend to expand the tar sands by FIVE TIMES the present size in the next 10 years!!
GROWTH is still at the centre of their belief system. We life on a FINITE planet and in so many ways those limits have been breeched - things are dying, species extinctions are happening faster and faster, pollution and radiation contamination is everywhere, the oceans are growing so acidic that coral is bleaching - how much evidence of insanity is needed before eyes are opened??
We, the 99%, have had the truth hidden from us.
They, the wealthy, are in denial.
Now that we are becoming aware of the state of the world, it is up to us to change things. The wealthy won't do it, they are "fully indoctrinated", they are insane, they cannot see due to their willfull blindness. They sold out.
We, the 99%, are going to find a way to end this insanity [peacefully]. The key to continued existence is SUSTAINABILITY, we demand that much at least, but not a lot more.
Its not for me, it is for us. All of us. The wealthy are welcome, but they have to rid themselves of their ill-gotten gains first.
Until now, we, the masses, the 99%, have pretty much just played along at the edges of their games. It is kinda fun pretending to be part of a corporate empire by calling ourselves "associates" instead of minimum wage clerks... BUT ITS OVER NOW. This is not a game, this is real life and we simply have to be responsible people, not destroyers of whatever for personal gain.
We are the 99%, and our eyes are beginning to open.
Add This Entry To Your CureZone Favorites! Print this page
Email this page
 Alert Webmaster
|
