Why Black Lives Matter

Civilization has developed language, cities, shelter, and history.

Children are sent to school to learn language, arithmetic and how to socialize. A good thing. Then they are taught to compete for success which encourages suspicion towards others and fear they will not “measure up”.  Not so good a thing.

Today there are people dying of starvation while celebrated men and women live in luxury. If you ask a five year old if this is fair, their answer will depend on their education and their class.

While the richest countries store weapons of mass destruction those on the lower end of the pecking order cannot afford health care, a home or food to eat. Masses are considered disposable if they don’t have money or power. The gap between haves and have-nots widens every decade. Hatred is becoming more brutal.  We might not say it out loud but policies from right wing parties say the poor deserve to die through neglect and emotional abuse. 

Contradictions in ideology — we have a duty to be positive, happy and fulfilled, but deprived of the means to purchase it. Multiple screens parade all the possibilities that promise happiness. Beautiful women, great sex, fame and world recognition. And when it doesn’t come then broken hearts choose performative power—misogyny, racism, bullying, machismo and war.  

This is where we are hit by the realization we are broken and its too late to fix. This is where drugs and alcohol become more than occasional pleasure and on top of everything else, we are controlled by the addiction and the dealers who don’t just persuade but threaten us.

Even education has become corrupt because it's another market and markets sell fantasies on top of knowledge. Fantasies such as—I need another degree to get a job that pays well rather than a social awakening to question why I am not paid well? Getting rich is the only standard that counts in a material world and getting into Ivy League institutions where blonde muscular boys and skinny sexy girls join cults of personality for popularity. They become items. 

In this world of material gloss everything has a price. There is no nuance. Empathy and compassion are unaffordable sensitivities, and when it comes to your own happiness you realize you are alone and the whole world is broken.

The designated scapegoats: marginalized poor, sick, black, Cree, Muslim, Jew or other-gendered — must redesign their world through emotional turmoil to the point of insight. 

This insight enables us to see just how broken, criminal and shallow, the mainstream guardians of power within and above our institutions are.

This is why the real power of community and all its manifestations have been outlawed.

The ruling jailors need us to remain ignorant of our true nature, in order to keep the prisons locked and to keep us hungry, afraid and angry.  And this is why black lives matter.