Chapter 4 Reasons For Revolution Part
2
Where are we
going as a people? What is the point of living? If your mindset is
materialistic, that you are living for possessions or accumulating large sums of money than your thinking is
part of the problem. The ecological wealth of the Earth is our greatest asset.
The Earth collectively doesn’t belong to us; no man can claim the Earth as its
own rather the bounty of the Earth belongs to all of mankind. It was meant to
be shared for all of our benefit. Yet
today we see a few destroying to Earth for the sake of money.
Money is a fictional concept, whether it is a coin or a
dollar bill. The piece of paper has no intrinsic value, meaning that it is
totally useless. Rather it is worth something only because society has dictated
that it is worth something. If the power behind the money ever lost its
position or place, all currency would be simply colored pieces of paper, even
more so today when the U.S. dollar is a fiat currency. It used to be that the
paper currency was backed up by gold. That is for every dollar one possessed
that they could exchange it for a predetermined amount of gold. But that is no
longer the case.
In fact the system is going away from cash totally in favor
to digits upon a computer. That is why stores are giving coupons exclusively
for use over electronic phones and other devices. They want to train people in
using electronics and get them away from cash. If all of money was reduced to
electronics it would be a simple matter to control the personal economy of
individuals. If somebody did something that the government or the banks didn’t
like they would simply delete their account robbing them of all of their
assets.
So what does this have to do with ecology? We are destroying what is valuable for what
is total rubbish. Money is not supreme. Rather at best it is a convenience or
at worst it is a demon to which people sell their souls for. There is a Native
American proverb which states, When the last
tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only
then will we realize that one cannot eat money. We are on a road to
destruction, slowly killing ourselves, all for the almighty dollar.
Revolutionaries are
dreamers and we can see beyond what exists today. So much of nature is
needlessly being destroyed for pure greed. Plastic bottles are dumped in the
ocean rather than being recycled. GMO’s are being used despite the potential
traumatic dangers they pose to mankind. The rivers, skies and oceans are used
for dumping grounds for pollution. Animals are exploited and are penned up as
opposed to having a natural life. We are using nature as a tool to exploit
instead of looking at the Earth as a partner in life.
Look at architecture and
view the majestic buildings of yesterday. Despite advances in all forms of
technology we no longer build elegant buildings of the past. The reason is that
the bottom line dominates every single motive. The architect is not rewarded
for coming up with a beautiful design but rather for something economically
efficient. Despite having masses of unemployed that could benefit from
intricate construction projects things are kept to a minimum budget. So we get box after box.
If the engineers had
their way they would pave the whole world with black top as it would solve all
of their problems. In New Jersey we have the Garden State Parkway which is a
road of about one hundred and seventy two miles. On either side of the Parkway
are woods. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful idea to plant peach trees and apple trees
along with some raspberry bushes along that road? Then if you were traveling and
got hungry all you would have to do would be to pull over on the shoulder and
help yourself. The Native Americans of what is called North America had
communal gardens such as this.
But the government of
the United States is not concerned with the welfare of the people. It is not
even a priority on their list. They only listen to us when we make some noise
and threaten them with revolution. Henry Kissinger, one of the most evil of
persons who ever lived, once said, “Control oil and you control nations; control
food and you control the people.” That is the kind of world that we are living
in. Those who are wealthy beyond our wildest imagination are like fat pigs
lusting for more slop of mammon. In the process they are destroying our world.
What will be left for our grandchildren if we do not stop them now?
We are on a road to
nowhere. That road is polluting and destroying the nature of this planet. Global warming, nuclear radiation, fossil
fuels, and other ecological factors are all contributing to Mother Earth’s
demise. The pipelines are leaking; the reactors are poisoning us, the tar sands
destroying massive amounts of pristine nature. Pick your poison big business is
sacrificing nature on the altar of commerce. Will you rise up to defend her?
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