Madness continued...
I've been trying to keep my nose clean and keep the hell out of the hornets nest that the past weekend has stirred up in Toronto over the past few days, but fuck it. Here's my two cents.
What we need, what this planet needs is a global revolution. We are all so concerned with our own lives, our own issues that we fail to see the bigger picture.
Save the Whales! Stop the tar sands! Monsanto is the devil!
Not that any of these causes are not noteworthy, but they fail to take the whole Earth into account. Our environment is a mess. Big corporations are slowly taking over the government and in turn the government is protecting them more than it protects the little people it has sworn to protect.
Those little people are me and you.
We rant and we rave and raise our little meaty fists in the air, and nothing happens. We're ignored.
We stop voting because there is no one that we want to support.
And we whine like spoiled children when we do vote and nothing happens.
"But so and so promised..."
I hate to break it to you, but that's what people do when they're trying to get into places of power.
Our country was built on the subjugation of the native population, a subjugation that continues to this day. We strolled in, found paradise and kicked them out of the places we wanted for ourselves. This scenario has been played out the world over for as long as our cancerous little species decided to stand on two legs and pick up a stick and start swinging.
We're still swinging that stick. Some call it opportunity, others call it capitalism, still others call it 'God given right' or the 'American Way'. I call it bullshit.
We as an 'evolved' species would rather thump our chests and declare that our way is the right way, when billions all around the world are dying of famine and disease, we pollute the very environment that sustains us, dump garbage into the oceans that choke and kill the wildlife and burn down and clear cut the forests and jungles where our species grew.
Evolved, indeed.
We may have the technology to fix these things, yet we hide behind corporate logos and hoard our money and resources for the top 1% of the population.
I can say these things because I live in a great country. But it is flawed. Although we are one of few nations capable of sustaining our population with our abundant natural resources, we squander what we have. We litter, we abuse, we take for granted that the things we have now will always be there.
They won't.
I'm not innocent in these things. I am guilty of all of them. Worst of all I have taken them for granted. I know that when I turn the tap drinkable water will rush out, and at a temperature I want. I know that when I am hungry there are supermarkets and food banks where I can get food. I know that if I am sick, there are doctors that will see me and that my medication will be prescribed. I have taken advantage of all of these things and taken them for granted in turn.
And for that I am lucky.
But I know that my luck comes at a price.
It comes held up on the backs of the millions of people in developing nations who make all the crap I pay a dollar for....The spine of our developing world nations is held up on the backs of these people.
We must demand that they are treated with the same equality that we ourselves demand. A universal minimum wage. Fair treatment of all people, men, women and children of the human race.
In a global society we cannot ask for anything more. Or less.
The children who make our electronics, the teenage girls who make our clothes deserve every right that we have while wearing them.
The farmers who grow our corn and our soy and our vegetables have every right to collect the seeds of their labour and be able to replant in the new growing season. And be able to feed their families in the process. They are the cornerstones of society and should be treated with the respect that they are due.
Civilization was created on the ability to sustain one's own family and community, why should we call this backwards progress?
We need to get corporations out of the food business and get family and community back in. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a global community to raise a species.
That is my rant.
I hope someone heard it.
I hope someone found some truth or some questions.
I have barely grazed the surface of what needs to be done.
We, as a whole need to reevaluate our goals and our needs.
Not just for us, but for future generations, our children and their grandchildren.
Do we really want to be the ignorant ones who had their chance and fucked everything up?
I don't.
Take action. The only way we ever claim equality it is to demand it. And to pay for what it is worth. Stop bickering over the same issues that you all agree on and make change.
You have the power.
That power is quiet.
Help to feed a community.
Help to change the status quo.
Help to nurture a global economy where families can feed themselves.
Help change a global community where we all realize we are in the same ride through the same universe.
And please, just take a breath and listen to one another.
The greatest truths come when we all have to make an effort to listen to one another.
What we need, what this planet needs is a global revolution. We are all so concerned with our own lives, our own issues that we fail to see the bigger picture.
Save the Whales! Stop the tar sands! Monsanto is the devil!
Not that any of these causes are not noteworthy, but they fail to take the whole Earth into account. Our environment is a mess. Big corporations are slowly taking over the government and in turn the government is protecting them more than it protects the little people it has sworn to protect.
Those little people are me and you.
We rant and we rave and raise our little meaty fists in the air, and nothing happens. We're ignored.
We stop voting because there is no one that we want to support.
And we whine like spoiled children when we do vote and nothing happens.
"But so and so promised..."
I hate to break it to you, but that's what people do when they're trying to get into places of power.
Our country was built on the subjugation of the native population, a subjugation that continues to this day. We strolled in, found paradise and kicked them out of the places we wanted for ourselves. This scenario has been played out the world over for as long as our cancerous little species decided to stand on two legs and pick up a stick and start swinging.
We're still swinging that stick. Some call it opportunity, others call it capitalism, still others call it 'God given right' or the 'American Way'. I call it bullshit.
We as an 'evolved' species would rather thump our chests and declare that our way is the right way, when billions all around the world are dying of famine and disease, we pollute the very environment that sustains us, dump garbage into the oceans that choke and kill the wildlife and burn down and clear cut the forests and jungles where our species grew.
Evolved, indeed.
We may have the technology to fix these things, yet we hide behind corporate logos and hoard our money and resources for the top 1% of the population.
I can say these things because I live in a great country. But it is flawed. Although we are one of few nations capable of sustaining our population with our abundant natural resources, we squander what we have. We litter, we abuse, we take for granted that the things we have now will always be there.
They won't.
I'm not innocent in these things. I am guilty of all of them. Worst of all I have taken them for granted. I know that when I turn the tap drinkable water will rush out, and at a temperature I want. I know that when I am hungry there are supermarkets and food banks where I can get food. I know that if I am sick, there are doctors that will see me and that my medication will be prescribed. I have taken advantage of all of these things and taken them for granted in turn.
And for that I am lucky.
But I know that my luck comes at a price.
It comes held up on the backs of the millions of people in developing nations who make all the crap I pay a dollar for....The spine of our developing world nations is held up on the backs of these people.
We must demand that they are treated with the same equality that we ourselves demand. A universal minimum wage. Fair treatment of all people, men, women and children of the human race.
In a global society we cannot ask for anything more. Or less.
The children who make our electronics, the teenage girls who make our clothes deserve every right that we have while wearing them.
The farmers who grow our corn and our soy and our vegetables have every right to collect the seeds of their labour and be able to replant in the new growing season. And be able to feed their families in the process. They are the cornerstones of society and should be treated with the respect that they are due.
Civilization was created on the ability to sustain one's own family and community, why should we call this backwards progress?
We need to get corporations out of the food business and get family and community back in. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a global community to raise a species.
That is my rant.
I hope someone heard it.
I hope someone found some truth or some questions.
I have barely grazed the surface of what needs to be done.
We, as a whole need to reevaluate our goals and our needs.
Not just for us, but for future generations, our children and their grandchildren.
Do we really want to be the ignorant ones who had their chance and fucked everything up?
I don't.
Take action. The only way we ever claim equality it is to demand it. And to pay for what it is worth. Stop bickering over the same issues that you all agree on and make change.
You have the power.
That power is quiet.
Help to feed a community.
Help to change the status quo.
Help to nurture a global economy where families can feed themselves.
Help change a global community where we all realize we are in the same ride through the same universe.
And please, just take a breath and listen to one another.
The greatest truths come when we all have to make an effort to listen to one another.