Always Preposterous 1/2

National and international news is often quite revealing in what it neglects. Just look at what is going on around us right now. From destroying our water resources and pumping so much garbage into our air that our climate is already changing (undoubtedly past the critical tipping point), ruining two of the three fundamental categories of “things without which life is impossible,” to adulterating that third category, our basic food supplies with killer pesticides, antibiotics, and plastics, not to mention all the prescription drugs also permeating our waters, our life. And all for what? Profit for…some rich mofo (psychopath), corporate, monopolistic, international banking or other cartel/trade organization, imperial capitalist, masters of war, feudalistic plutocrats.

Then there are the wars to support their malevolent greed, the killing of innocents to steal our birthrights to health, happiness, education, a productive existence (by the victims’ standards, not ours). All this in the service of our totalitarian masters, who’ve stolen everything else already — namely, the current ruling classes of the world.

What powers this paradigm? How is it that eighty-five individuals own more wealth than the bottom three plus billion inhabitants of the planet. Those eighty-five own half the wealth of the planet while those of us who supposedly care about humanity, empower them by quietly turning a blind eye.

People are dying, the whole planet is dying for the profit of those few legends-in-their-own-minds. None of them is any better or has any more intrinsic value than anyone else born on our mutual home, Planet Earth. What they have they’ve “earned, the old fashioned way,” off the backs of those they’ve sold, and out right murdered, for their own greedy advancement.

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–LE