Suffering
There are lots of things that seem insane to me, things I simply cannot understand.
I cannot understand how we have created a system where so few people benefit and so many suffer.
I cannot understand how we remain so complacent in the wake of death, war and poverty, created in order to place powerful minorities in even more powerful positions and put all the wealth created in the pockets of the rich.
I cannot understand how we remain gullible enough so that we remain distracted by complete dross, bought off with the promise that we can join them via a lottery ticket or hard work, or given sufficient to maintain a certain standard of living.
I cannot understand how the rich and powerful manage to suppress their consciences when they are responsible for the suffering of billions.
I cannot understand why we do not create a global system to ensure equality, stop wars and totalitarian systems, stop fundamentalism, protect the environment and put an end to the needless slaughter of wild-life and pollution and environmental destruction.
It is not beyond our intelligence to create something that would work!
This relentless machine is churning up the planet for the benefit of a psychotic few.
Suffering
Hanging on a rich man’s whim
Helpless
In a tide of economic madness
Dreaming
Of a future for the children
Toiling
To find food for a family
Desperate
To hold it together
Suffering
Hanging on a rich man’s whim
Opher 18.1.2016
I think they are suffering severe hardship, too. It is hard for us to sympathise with them because of what we believe to be a cynical attitude to those who do not have as much. This is a well timed reflection on the state of the world. And of course, I agree that we are bought off with the promise that it can come easily to us. That all we have to do is relax and allow.
Nobody ‘earns’ a billion dollars. The small elite at the top exploit the markets and manipulate them for their own gain. I do not believe they really care about the misery they leave in their wake. They truly believe they are worth it.
We need a more equal system, less corruption and more caring and compassion.
The capitalist drive is destroying the natural world. It has to stop. We have to be ruled by intelligence – not greed.
There is too much money and where there is too much money there is power – you will never eradicate the wealthy who control it all. With power comes corruption, take a look around, you will see corruption in every walk of life, I look at this Town where I live, those in charge have their hands in each others pockets all of them. Even under Labour right now you can smell it as you can with the rest of them.
Yep. Too true. But we have to keep standing up to it. There isn’t an alternative. I believe we can, slowly, make it better.
I’m an idealistic optimist! It’s the only way to be!
Trouble is Opher I am a Pessimist.
We’ve got to be optimistic. We have to fight for something better. We have new tools – the internet connects people and brings the truth out into the open. It will make a difference.
There is hope.
Look back through history at what they used to do. We’ve got better.
Education is key.
We have to be optimistic and keep plugging away to make the world better. The alternative is to rollover.
That’s why I write.
Very poignant post and a wonderful poem. And when the rich get done mining the earth here for all it will give in the way of luxury they will go on to create a world like in the movie “Elysium.”
That’s about the strength of it.