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There are insane psychopathic inhuman ignorant people killing the rest of us and the planet. We have to stop this. We HAVE to, if we want to live. If we want decent lives. If we want our planet to continue to support us.
How do we stop them? What gives them their power?
Call it capitalism. Call it fascism. Call it feudalism. Call it racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, nationalism, whatever you want to call it. But it is the use of money to buy power, to accumulate power in the hands of a few, and to divide and conquer the rest of us by forcing us to compete for resources. And damn, don't they just make all sorts of money off those conflicts for resources.
We can have world peace. We can have an end to prejudice.
It starts with getting off our addiction to money.
Having the basic necessities of life is an inviolable human right. Everyone on this planet deserves food and water and shelter and health care and education. And those things only cost money because we say they do. Money is an illusion. Money is the barbed wire fence that keeps us inside our prisons of fear and alienation and hatred and submission. Money denies people the basic needs that need to be filled before they can have self-actualization, and so money keeps us perceiving in a deficit-motivated manner.
We have what we need. The earth and our own human intelligence and emotions can provide us with everything we need to live good and decent lives.
Not engorged greedy selfish lives. Those of us who ended up on the top end of the pyramid are going to have to give up some useless luxuries. We are going to have to live simply so that others may simply live, as the bumper sticker says.
As a person who drives a 17 year old car and who lives in a two bedroom 50 year old house and who rarely goes shopping - I can tell you that, when not under the threat of soul-killing fascism, I am happy. I am fulfilled. My life is beautiful and good, and I feel at one with the universe.
Until money intrudes. Until people are taking basic necessities away from my loved ones so that they can gold plate the toilets on their fourth yacht.
You are not better than anyone else, and no one is better than you. Money has nothing to do with your value as a human. Nothing. Other than how having too much of it deprives you of your humanity.
We are all of equal infinite worth. We are all divine. We are all part of the Way, the Tao, God, Christ, Allah, whatever you want to call it. And when we realize that, when we treat each other as the divine gods that we all are, then we can have peace. We can have prosperity. We can have security and safety and respect and belonging and love and accomplishment and self-actualization.
Money is the enemy. Kill it. Work cooperatively with others for the good, instead of competing with them for money. Know that every human you see is worthy of the utmost respect, no matter how much stupid useless green paper they have or what meaningless number represents their bank account. Know that you are worthy and good and loved, no matter where you are in the social pyramid created by money.
There is a story about a man who kept a group of monkeys and forced them to go out and pick fruit for him in return for taking care of them. One day one of the monkeys decided to eat the fruit instead. The other monkeys saw this, and realized that they could eat the fruit too. The man no longer had power over them and they became free.
Capitalism, the idea of competition and self worth based on money, the idea of winning a competition in which we are all losers, MUST DIE. It must. We either start eating the fruit that we pick ourselves and leave the old rich white jowly cheeked men bitter and alone and powerless, or we die at the hands of those who try to control us through making us think that we have to depend on them to take care of us.
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