While the world is fighting the ravages of a global pandemic, and as the disparity between the rich and poor continues to grow. There are some who continue to fund and push for more war. Do these men in suits send their sons and daughters to fight these wars against other vulnerable people? The answer is no, they never do.
Average people all over the world are bombarded with images of war and refugees and famine and suffering. And then there are stories of the billionaires (as if rubbing it in our faces), and the stories of the increases in military spending, and how so much more will be spent on weapons, there seems to always be money for weapons.
In regards to this perpetual state of war the world seems locked in, I ask myself, why do we allow these greedy world leaders to jeopardize our, and our families’ futures, for their greed? What banks fund these militaries and how do they benefit? What corporations, military contractors, weapons manufacturers push for this? Who benefits from all this?
And Then There is Racism
And as if there were not enough social ills to go around, some people with higher amounts of pigmentation in their skin (like myself) still have to deal with something called racism, and all the physical and psychological linked to racism. I read about racism all over the world, I read about Caste Systems, I read about what seems like a worldwide system of Pigmentocracy, and it truly breaks my heart. I feel human beings have so many issues that we need to tackle as a human race but we are wasting the opportunity to create something better by just fighting each other. I also think about the criminals/businessmen/oligarchs responsible for so many of the world’s ills, and I think about how they must rejoice at how human beings fight each other over nonsense and miss out on building a united struggle against the real problems that affect society and those responsible.
Human Issues
If I told you 15,000 to 20,000 children that die daily from malnutrition does that not bother you? If I told you that the Earth’s species are dying off in record numbers would that merit your concern? How about other wrongs e.g. carcinogens in your food, water, and air. What I am stating is that these are not white or black or brown issues, these are human issues and we need to put a stop to these injustices and take action as a united human race. We all love our children, and their futures are at stake. Future generations’ futures are also at stake, and we are living in a crucial time for humanity and we are squandering the opportunity.
See to these plutocrats and oligarchs in power all they see is returns on shares and quarterly profits. That is what interests them. You and I are expandable in their eyes. Once they run out of people to make war on in this region or they find it geopolitically more logical to strike war in another region, they will do just that without a blink of an eye.
Once they have locked up all the brown and black bodies, they will move on to the next group to be commercially exploited. All one would have to do is study the increase in prison populations in the last 50 years. Their system of capital was never meant to serve us and in reality, is failing us, and so they have come up with a way to lock up what they have considered the Surplus Population, and have even commodified the whole operation by contracting out prison labor.
Every year they continue to find the budget or find private groups that fund the building of new prisons, but ask yourself, why they can’t find the funds or the steady groups of investors that wish to spend on education? Please take some time and read up on the For-Profit Prison System and how that works, and study the history of Convict Leasing.
These Are Not the Same Chickens
The abuses are everywhere, it is even happening with livestock, learn about CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations), for one, all that locking up so many animals in close proximity to each other besides even the cruelty to the poor animals, also endangers us all as a human race to future epidemics, and what about the number of antibiotics used on the sick animals, how will that affect us and for what, to maximize some shareholders’ profits? I once read in Bill McKibben’s book “Deep Economy”, how today we would have to eat four chickens to get the same amount of nutrients we would eat from a chicken in the 1970s.
Behavioral Surplus
I only hope we wake up in time and see the pattern, that there is a constant increase in abuse, and if they realized that nothing is off-limits and that everything is being commodified, even our very own privacy, or have they still not heard the term, “Surveillance Capitalism?” We are all in this together. Our lives and our futures are intertwined. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.”
“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” – Tupac Shakur
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