The five-year-old asks His/Her mother/father: Why are the children in Africa starving?
Parent: Because the do not have enough too eat.
Child: But we have more than enough. We just send our surplus to them! Why didn’t we already, they apparently need it.
Parent: It ain’t that easy Somebody need to pay for the food and the transport to Africa. And the Africans have no money.
Child: But that is not fair, here they just throw the surplus food in the garbage anyway, Why can’t just give it to them?
Parent: Somebody will still have to pay for the transport to Africa, for fuel for the plane or boat and salary for to people running it.
Child: But why, that’s not right them starving.
Parent: It’s just the way it is. There is nothing we can do about it.
At this moment the conversation would probably end or run into a lot of "But, Why?"/"Because it IS" variations. And the child would probably leave this line of questions with a feeling that this is not right in any way. An in the latter case a big part of his thoughts/feelings could probably have been directly translated to these words originally by Robert Anton Wilson:
"Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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Skip 20 years forward in time and the five-year-old now twenty-five has finished it’s programming and are now ready to face it’s own children's questions with the constructed truth "That is the way it is. There is nothing we can do about it....." totally ignoring the fact that they themselves once could clearly see that this was wrong.
Some might remember that feeling. that inner voice, that told them "Of-cause there is something to do about it, just change it." some years later when they force themselves out of bed 5:30, leaving their loved one, a winter morning, to go to a job they hate. In a profession they only chose to make their parents proud, but can not leave because the mortgage on the house is due in 12 days and visa bill just gets bigger every month. Some might ponder how real these feelings felt for a second or two, while waiting for the bus that's already 13 minutes late this stormy winter morning, before yet again dismissing them as a childish Utopian fantasy, as they have been taught because it is of-cause the way it is, and that is how it has to be.
"That is why I an standing her out in the cold, waiting for a bus to where I do not want to be instead of staying where I was, which is where I wanted to be, where my love is still." <- that's reason and common sense for you (?)
Soooo my point is; my question to you all is; Are you really gonna keep doing this to yourselves, your children and your loved ones for much longer?
Must I remind you again that this planet hosts enough food and resources for all our needs. And we have reached a technological level where we can produce anything we need to survive an be healthy and happy. We can even make virtually all production automated and non polluting. We can automate all logistics, and transport.
And by the way, if you were about to point out "But there isn't enough fresh-water for everyone", we can also make as much fresh-water we want form the ocean.
How, since when? you might ask..
1950-60s Robot technology
1960-70s The Internet
1980-90s Computer controlled manufacturing/transport
90s-2006 RFID technology, Semipermeable membrane
There you got most of the pieces needed to put the puzzle together. The rest is out there, if you just go have a look you will see.
Open your eyes, take a look around you, and consider that this is not the only way to do things.
And for the sake of those you love, give your children a more truthful answer than: It is just the way it is, there is nothing we can do about it.
-St.Mytr of the 13'th circle of the inverted triangle.
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