The beginning of global order

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Pablo Ouziel
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3367.shtml

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We can continue to believe our politicians as they echo messages of stability and order around our planet, and we can continue to feed off the BBC or the New York Times to get an insight into the normality of the global situation, but sooner or later, the collapse of our economies is going to affect us directly by hitting our pockets, and then perhaps we will be ready to act. Hopefully, against those politicians and global capitalists who are infecting our daily life by bringing a painful and miserable reality to the majority of humanity.

Monday, as I drove on the motorway towards Barcelona, I was overcome with tears. Lining the roads were truckers slowing the traffic, waving banners and making noise to be heard in order to be understood, while the rest of the drivers in their cars were feeling annoyed at the inconvenience of a minority obstructing their daily routine. The radio was repeating negative messages about the truckers, the politicians were repeating over and over again that these people were a minority, and that the rest of us should not worry, because they would not achieve the goal of disrupting the flow of petrol or the arrival of goods from one point to another.

As this was happening in Spain, discontented truckers in different parts of the planet were also complaining. Their complaint was a simple one, “We can no longer afford to feed our families.” Yet, solidarity is running so short these days that isolated groups get affected by the global economic situation, while the rest of us continue our routine without paying much attention to their pleas. What people are failing to see is the connection between the truckers today, the fishermen a few weeks ago, the homeowners losing their homes, and the global riots because of rising food prices. The people being affected directly are giving us a warning of things to come, and the only way this can be reversed is if we group together and begin to show support to those who are feeling the pain right now.

We have not been smart enough as a collective of global citizens to understand that we are being taken for a ride; that affected groups are being kept isolated by the magic wand of the corporate media regurgitating the propagandistic message of the ruling elite. Everyday, the global situation is getting worse. As strikes are on the rise and unemployment is increasing, we must be alert; we must understand what is happening. The elites will continue to keep us divided, because divided is how they can control us, but we must be smarter than them and understand that the only strength we have against their policies is the collective strength of united discontent. . . .