Or to rephrase that; I wonder if any of them did not wear Nike, Levis, Adidas or any other of the top 50 brands out there? Or shall I say top 600 brands (or maybe 6000 if that many exist) just to be sure the probability of the answer being anything but 'no' is virtually zero. Just to provoke someone to correct me with the life-long lie; "How could they not, there are no options, this is the way it is"
Why I call it the life-long lie? Well, what did your parents tell you at the moment between you where two and seven years old when you asked the fatal question: "Why are the children in Africa starving?"
I say fatal because the most common outcome of this conversation between child and parent is the point where the child for the first time gets told that it is powerless to change the wrongs of the world. This is the life-long lie that upholds a status-quo where thousands of good people die to pay for the entertainment of a few hundred rich families world-wide.
The Shadows of the past, substantialized,
Environ us; we are built about from birth
With life-long shutting-out of light from heaven.
-Gerald Massey
So the point of my question?
There is virtually no use protesting against the system that you keep empowering. The big protests mostly feeds the beast trough "Pressure from above, Pressure from below". If you want the beast to die it seems like a very bad idea to keep feeding it.
The point have been proved before. Sure the 500000+ attendant protests of the sixties can be claimed to accomplish the ending of the Vietnam war. But did the change the world to a place of love, peace & happiness like they claimed they would. No, because most of them got for themselves places to live with rent or mortgages, jobs and cars. The national debt of The United States Of America has reached unimaginable size. More people than ever work for less than ever in developing countries. And they are doing their toll to keep the machine running, that's why.
And again I can almost hear many of you wanting to scream at me: "But there are no options!"
That's Bullshit. to put it very plainly. There are plenty options just open your minds. One of them, just because I like quoting the late Prophet Bill Hicks is:
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
And some would instantly claim; "But we can not do that. It is not in our power to control the money for the weapons industry." Wrong again.
The simple fact is that it is you that keeps giving said money value. Each day when you drag your sorry ass out of bed still half asleep to go to work. It is you that keeps the banks and financial institutions alive. By accepting the "fact" that you must earn your money so you can pay for food and housing on the planet you where born.
They needs must find it hard to take the Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for truth.
-Gerald Massey
The fact that the money in it self are worthless has been proved more than once. But the thing is that in effect they are very valuable to the few at the top as lone as we keep treating them as if they had value. In fact so valuable that they could not keep up with their globalization if we stopped doing so.
Thus remains as many have stated before only a choice; between Love and Fear.
For it is fear that keeps us from realizing our ability to change the status-quo. It is fear that tell you you can not do this because you would stand alone. Fear that tells you that if you stopped paying your duty to the system you would finally stand without roof or food to survive.
Love will tell you that you are not alone;
There are more people on this planet that realize a massive change is needed than ever. The anti-globalization movement, the climate change sceptics, the 2012 awakening crew, the conspiracy theory nuts, the discordians, and so on are all paths that leads to the same conclusion. Not to forget the victims of globalization, no doubt about their stand in the case. We all have the same goal finally; to make of this world what it should have been, in Love.
Love will tell you that we are all in this together and that we have all the human and material resources to build a future for everyone if we just stop fearing and competing and start loving and sharing.
All revolutions in history have failed. I suggest an step of evolution. Lets just put the economical system behind us as it has come to do us more harm then good. Lets throw away the fear and realize that there is enough of everything on this planet to go around. That we have reached a point in spiritual and technological development where we can reach much further if we remove the restrains the system places upon us at birth.
Do NOT let THEM Immanentize the eschaton....
-St Mytr of the imminent shake-up
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