Here is a new revelation for you.
Ok, maybe it won't feel new, or, maybe you are not like a majority of the rest of us and you have thought of this before; most important, don't let it bother you: A main reason the Super Rich remain so Rich (worldwide) - is that while you think you care, you don't really; and, you definitely don't act it. You are actively letting rich off the hook for being responsible to all of us for wealth they have.
In my home country, (USA) we pride ourselves on only hating the rich as punk rockers hate them.
We actually don't mind them. We tolerate excessive wealth easy: we celebrate the excess, the sloth, the chaos of media-minded megapersonality wealthy. We cave quickly, freely to oligarchical powers and are feeling freely democratic about rehiring the morons of rich kids gone bad past - again and again and again.
We want equality. We want to have the dream ladder. We want a plural meritocracy that merits freedom. We want to support innovation and an ability to grow your own, build dreams, create business wealth. We want a union of successfully well mannered managers and the shopping malls to support them.
I would like to see charts overlapped over one that shows wealth subtraction from peoples across the world, mineral extraction by continent, coldwar/post cold war economic consolidations by continent! We might as well overlay compounded monolithic powers of single party patronage political powers.
We do not mind war mongering demagoguery, the war machines, the capitalist prison industrial and military industrial complexes. We are happy to live richer ourselves at the expense of the rest of the world and think nothing of connecting our welath to the suffering of poor masses in Latin America, Africa, Asia, or in our own post colonial neo-imperialist far flung colonies across the world. We have long forgiven slavery, genocide, gender/racialized violence, or even current PTSD suffering as only distant aspects of a post-colonial world our grandparents simply 'must have shied away from!'
Let me give you a break. YOU are not to blame for any of this. You are not to blame for the disproportionate millions in jail, the million PTSD war sufferers, or the cost of our wealth abroad.
BTW [Readers - Warning] Do NOT do this. Do not write this. Participate at a distance.
Watch TV more. Unless you want to end up monitored, traced, tapped, and looked over by the taxman, the badman, their managers, covert plants, spies, and post-revolutionary yuppie-class sell outs of every ilk. Serious. The few things I have going for me is that I know/have known, have worked for, still talk to the rich; that I offer us moral cures for some guilt; and, that our grandparents and grandchildren know each other. Add to this that I want to offer solutions and do; that I have had neither income nor debt for years; that I come from a big family tradition of loud mouthed liberal pacifist philosophical peacemakers. I am fearless. But, retribution has a history in this world's evil.
But, let me put the Super rich back on the hook.
Taking a whole pie, eating it, then offering crumbs to share between the rest of the world and us (A comfortable middle class consumer class) - is cold! Letting us pretend to care is mighty generous. Fearlessness due to media, police states, food/drugs. scarcity, declining world health, disaster capitalism and the like - will come to haunt you too. YOU!
So, my mantra, do not complain without offering a real solution. What can we ALL do now, today.
Always. Begin. Where you ARE.
Do something. Change something.
Find some small way to reinforce daily the change you want to see in the world and manifest it into more and more.
Make moral sense of your accountability.
Too simplistic - not concrete enough.
Turn off the water more.
Reuse the grocery bag.
Compost.
Plant. Period. Plant/Grow.
Build Hope.
Have Faith.
Be local.
Imagine a future the activate it. Teach Children, help elders.
Turn off, stop working, produce more, find alternatives to taxation.
Produce no bombs.
Occupy left a mark. Almost 9000 managers care.
Ok, maybe it won't feel new, or, maybe you are not like a majority of the rest of us and you have thought of this before; most important, don't let it bother you: A main reason the Super Rich remain so Rich (worldwide) - is that while you think you care, you don't really; and, you definitely don't act it. You are actively letting rich off the hook for being responsible to all of us for wealth they have.
In my home country, (USA) we pride ourselves on only hating the rich as punk rockers hate them.
We actually don't mind them. We tolerate excessive wealth easy: we celebrate the excess, the sloth, the chaos of media-minded megapersonality wealthy. We cave quickly, freely to oligarchical powers and are feeling freely democratic about rehiring the morons of rich kids gone bad past - again and again and again.
We want equality. We want to have the dream ladder. We want a plural meritocracy that merits freedom. We want to support innovation and an ability to grow your own, build dreams, create business wealth. We want a union of successfully well mannered managers and the shopping malls to support them.
I would like to see charts overlapped over one that shows wealth subtraction from peoples across the world, mineral extraction by continent, coldwar/post cold war economic consolidations by continent! We might as well overlay compounded monolithic powers of single party patronage political powers.
We do not mind war mongering demagoguery, the war machines, the capitalist prison industrial and military industrial complexes. We are happy to live richer ourselves at the expense of the rest of the world and think nothing of connecting our welath to the suffering of poor masses in Latin America, Africa, Asia, or in our own post colonial neo-imperialist far flung colonies across the world. We have long forgiven slavery, genocide, gender/racialized violence, or even current PTSD suffering as only distant aspects of a post-colonial world our grandparents simply 'must have shied away from!'
Let me give you a break. YOU are not to blame for any of this. You are not to blame for the disproportionate millions in jail, the million PTSD war sufferers, or the cost of our wealth abroad.
BTW [Readers - Warning] Do NOT do this. Do not write this. Participate at a distance.
Watch TV more. Unless you want to end up monitored, traced, tapped, and looked over by the taxman, the badman, their managers, covert plants, spies, and post-revolutionary yuppie-class sell outs of every ilk. Serious. The few things I have going for me is that I know/have known, have worked for, still talk to the rich; that I offer us moral cures for some guilt; and, that our grandparents and grandchildren know each other. Add to this that I want to offer solutions and do; that I have had neither income nor debt for years; that I come from a big family tradition of loud mouthed liberal pacifist philosophical peacemakers. I am fearless. But, retribution has a history in this world's evil.
But, let me put the Super rich back on the hook.
Taking a whole pie, eating it, then offering crumbs to share between the rest of the world and us (A comfortable middle class consumer class) - is cold! Letting us pretend to care is mighty generous. Fearlessness due to media, police states, food/drugs. scarcity, declining world health, disaster capitalism and the like - will come to haunt you too. YOU!
So, my mantra, do not complain without offering a real solution. What can we ALL do now, today.
Always. Begin. Where you ARE.
Do something. Change something.
Find some small way to reinforce daily the change you want to see in the world and manifest it into more and more.
Make moral sense of your accountability.
Too simplistic - not concrete enough.
Turn off the water more.
Reuse the grocery bag.
Compost.
Plant. Period. Plant/Grow.
Build Hope.
Have Faith.
Be local.
Imagine a future the activate it. Teach Children, help elders.
Turn off, stop working, produce more, find alternatives to taxation.
Produce no bombs.
Occupy left a mark. Almost 9000 managers care.
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