Poverty is a Crisis in Morality

 

There is poverty in wages,  poverty in community, poverty in spirit and poverty in rationality.

Poverty in wages: Full Time Workers who are paid less than they can live on are ritually abused. Fearing they could lose a job where they are put down, demeaned, exhausted and seen as failures. Hate is a product of people who cannot climb out of their misery. People who are raging inside but unable to blame the cause of their suffering, because they are told it's their fault.

Hate groups are funded by wealthy interests who are afraid that rage will turn on them. Groups who are eager to blame the victims of violence because of how they appear or dress.

Poverty in community is where people judge and are judged by what they wear, or their education level or their address. Today we are suffering from this poverty. Where innocent people begin to look for status in what they purchase or their dream job or winning the lottery. The other side of this is people who make generalizations about what others are worth hoping to feel that judgement alone will elevate them.

Poverty in spirit is when we have no sense of who we are because we have neglected ourselves in the most fundamental aspect of life. The opportunities presented that are overlooked because we fail to see them and because the values of our current system which hold up and celebrate the superficial-- the way we look, the personality, the car and house, but cannot reveal our greatest achievements such as compassion.

Poverty in rationality means we are unable to find a way out because we don't value our ability to find healing in our grief and anxiety. If we can stop beating ourselves up for the mistakes we have made, we can stop beating up the human species, stop trying to win through competing in superficial ways.

You are here to live and learn who you are, not how you compare with others. Morality is the function of choosing to heal your world in whatever way you can and whatever way you have.