OT: Look in the Mirror
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operandi, be they huge corporations and their leaders, or powerful
gov't forces and figures.
Who buys their products? Who funds the gov't?
You.
You don't like something, stop supporting it economically. Or move to
another country. Otherwise if you're living here engaging in the
typical profligate, luxurious, consumption-based American lifestyle*
thereby funding various and sundry vast amoral enterprises, you're
just as guilty as said enterprises. What's the difference between the
willing and knowing producer, consumer, funder?
It's the complacent lazy whiny pointing of fingers that allows
massive, amoral power to grow and run wild. There's a proverb I read
years ago, something like: "If all men sweeped after themselves, the
world would be a clean place." Of course there are any number of other
proverbs which encapsulate that same ethos: be the change you seek in
the world, you want something done do it yourself, if you're not part
of the solution you're part of the problem and on and on.
So stop pointing fingers.
Look in the mirror and realize it's you and 175 million other
Americans (that's a guesstimate for those who at minimum knowingly
participate in American profligacy, the remaining 125 million being
too poor, young or old to be able to) not to mention the hundreds of
millions across the industrialized world, who allow amoral big power
to even exist.
As one of the traditional senior farewell messages read on a brick at
my fraternity house this one from the 70s and paraphrasing:
"Complacency is like constipation. Everyone sits around and nobody
gives a shit."
*It's interesting how much most of us including myself take for
granted. Mindlessly flitting about in our cars to do all manner of
things including 'vacation,' flying to hither and yon, and on and on
and on. Whereas in most of the rest of the world owning a house much
less a car is a dream.
As one personal example I visited Cambodia for a short while, and the
outright stone-age type living in some places ... I mean it was just
unbelievable to see. We all know and here about it, but to see it ...
The point here is, again: it's things we blithely and mindlessly take
for granted as Americans, the activities we do things buy that line
the pockets of the power private and public which runs the world.
