Making Cash
I was watching the Night Manager – the John Le Carre story about the arms dealer. It was making me angry. There are a lot of people out there who would do anything for cash.
You can buy a hit-man, an elephant tusk, or a rhino horn from an unscrupulous thug. The torturers, despots and tyrants buy their tools and weapons from dealers. Britain is an arms-dealer. They are not all shady characters who hide in the background.
I have just returned from a voyage to South America. It brought home to me all over again the destruction of the environment, the massive slaughter of wild-life, the huge expanding numbers of people, the inequality and poverty and the wasteland we are making of the planet.
Nations plunder their resources. Jungles are chopped, strip mines gouged, seas polluted. Fish are scooped out of the sea using radar and huge trawls in industrial numbers. Nothing is sacred.
What once was plentiful is now scarce.
The whole world is being designed to be run as a tourist theme park.
The rich live in their four million dollar apartments and the poor scratch a living from the corrugated iron shacks along the river bank.
It could have been so different.
Who cares about a sloth? Who gives a monkeys?
Making Cash
There’s a man who makes a lot of cash
Selling the planet
For the midnight bash;
Supplying the bombs
To the men
Who don’t care,
To the ones
That the rest of us
Try to beware.
But all the cash
In the world
Won’t buy
A do-do.
They had it all
And they just let it go.
Opher 26th March 2016
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Good Afternoon Opher, no matter how passionate you get, and you do feel real passion. You will never ever stop Arms Dealing for the simple reason too much money is made and the rich are never satisfied, the more they have the more they want. With their gaudy cars/jewels/mansion and made up young and even younger tarts on their arms this is the life they desire and if weapon selling makes them their millions so be it. Lets hope that one day all those guns etc will be turned on those bastards and they are riddled with bullets. So half hour of first episode of that and turned it off.
Far too much money is made out of it. But I have hope for the future. Humanity can get better. Looking back through history there is improvement. I believe we have to look at the long view and shout.
To some extent there are things worth making a gesture about – cruelty and war being a couple.
We owe it to ourselves to be a force for good.
Now we have the internet we have a voice and there are millions of us. I believe we can alter the zeitgeist.
We can shout as loud as we can, you can have as many campaigns on the internet objecting, and yes you are right – I believe it should all stop I have felt that way from the very first time I heard about it, but nothing changes nothing will. Hope, that’s all that can be done. The bastards out there are interested in only one thing MONEY and you/I/millions will never stop it, shout scream they will continue. Hope that is all there is. Same with the modern day slavery of women for sex, we can never change that not whilst there is money to be made. Too many powerful people in this Country and worldwide are involved in both. It is known who they are, action taken, hell NO.
Well you are right. But we have to hope that if enough people object things will change. There is power in numbers. They have to take notice.
Things are better than they were a hundred years ago.
In another hundred years we will be both dead, long time to hope for change!
But our future offspring will be. We do it for them – for a better world than the one we live in, for the wild-life of the future.
My Offspring – one does not want Children but is excellent with them, the other will wait and tells me he will be like a rabbit, but I will be dead. So as I said “HOPE” is all that is left to us.
Hope is great. Let us hope that we can make a difference and hope that things will be better. Also hope that you get a couple of grandchildren before you pop your clogs.
No, I always go by my gut feelings and I know that I will never see any. You are the optimist I am the Pessimist remember. Best I can hope for, Jonathan’s friend coming round with his 2 years old Son who is absolutely gorgeous and intelligent and I can play with him a little and hopefully be allowed to cuddle him. I so would love Grandchildren, have to do with “Daisy”
That’s a shame.
Well I get a lot of love from Daisy, life does not always deal you a good card, some of us are not strong enough inside to fight for a better one, we put up and shut up. What you see on the outside and what you hear is not the real person inside Opher.
Dogs are great and very loyal and loving.
Fighting for something better is what I’ve been doing all my life. It’s built into my nature. I feel that if we don’t fight then the bastards win.
Besides – it’s good for us to stand up for good. We can at least look ourselves in the eye and know that we did all we could, even if we can’t make a huge impact. I like to think I will leave this world having done my bit for justice, fairness and good.
That’s honest enough and hope it will all turn out right it’s just sometimes hitting your head against a brick wall.
I often feel like that. But I do not think there is any alternative. Better to have tried and failed than never to have even bothered.
No, well at least you will keep trying. Opher, what happened with this book that has been “dropped” is that correct from some publisher.
I had hopes for it being taken up. They showed interest. But they said that times had been hard since Christmas and they could not take on new work at the moment and try again later.
No big deal. I’m used to knock-backs. Just try again elsewhere.
That sounds like a very feeble excuse. They should not have expressed interest in it to you and then knock you back like that. As you tell me, look forward there is something much better than them out there, their loss not yours.
We’ll see.
You must have been upset.
Yeah – disappointed. It feels a bit hopeless.
You have to hold out hope.
I’ll keep writing. That’s what I do.