You are in the water. Swim over to that loaded oil tanker. Push with all your might. Can you deflect it’s path? Not enough so anyone would notice. Would a hundred of you make a difference? A thousand? A million? A hundred million? Perhaps, but what would it accomplish? Sooner or later, you will tire and the ship’s pilot will eventually move through your hundred million.
Now, about those Tea Parties, and voting, and marching, and pink slips…
It’s not selfish if you refuse to join the delusions of millions. It’s not lazy if your work is hard for them to measure. You are not a loser if you don’t want what they seek to win.
Greece is having serious unrest. The ruling oligarchy wants the money from ruling. But there is a very large community of communists, socialists, etc. They’ve been legal as political parties for a long time, and the political culture makes lots of room for rowdiness. Their unrest is the natural result of the oligarchs refusing to share in the current economic troubles.
France has historical communists, and a culture of political rowdiness, too. Worse, they have invited a jillion refugees who never intended to become French. So what the society usually does for the French in need isn’t what the refugees want; they want something they can’t have. France’s unrest is also fairly easy to understand.
Iraq’s unrest is phony. While there has always been some tension between the various nations inside that country, it is simply the official excuse to cover up the activity of the CIA and friends. So we have clandestine services masquerading as local agitators destroying things and even attacking the troops, all to justify continuing to occupy their country.
Iran’s unrest is a similar story. As far as honest accounting is possible, the current government did win the election. But the CIA and friends are stirring up the minority who are willing to be stirred. Similar story in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan. We are doing it.
You can talk all you want about the various parties who are pleased by this activity — massive destruction and death without any real reason — but the point is it boils down to wealth. To understand, you only have to follow the money, because that’s what it’s all about.
So, supposing they eventually get every last dime the world has. They take ownership of every thing of value on the earth. Then what? What will they have? Oh, wait — they plan to kill most of the human life, right? And then? They plan to enslave the few left. And then?
I make no apology for taking an entirely mystical view of things. Not just a passively mystical withdrawal into cloud land, but a very pragmatic intrusion into this materialistic fearful world. If this world and this life is all you have, you don’t have anything at all. Give it up; you might as well, because someone is going to take it. Probably very soon in real and literal terms. You may succeed in holding onto some part of it if you fight hard enough and have enough others with you doing the same. But then, what will you have accomplished? The next round of fighting will see you probably dead. Or the next. You can’t hold out forever.
If you take little interest in things tangible, because you know it really is no more than a shadow of a higher reality, then you may have some hope of sanity, a moment when the clarity of truth begins to shine in your soul. Then, even if they pump you full of stuff which deranges your brain cells, you still had the one thing they can never take from you. You will know beyond all doubt all they can take won’t matter. Once you get that clarity, you’ll understand why it matters more than anything else.
Until then, I’m just a raving lunatic. Care to join me?
