The Reason For World Poverty

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ELIAS WAKAN - The Man Behind The Math: Geometric Sculptures

Future of Humans on This Planet

Based on what is happening today, I see that women or woman will be kept in barns with hay and a few vegetables. They won't live long because their use is the uterus. After several births the woman attached to the stall with chains on her legs until she dies. Males will be allowed to live freely until they reach 15 years old after roaming, fighting, serving the war. If she is caught singing, talking or dancing, her tongue will be cut out and her bones in her legs broken so she cannot walk more than a few steps.

There will be no music, poetry or art. All human activity must be capitalist. After the male copulates the female is brought back to the barn to complete the gestation period.

Entertainment will be the same as the end of the Roman Empire. Gladiators fighting to the death or being killed if he no longer wins any tournaments.

Tournaments are two males fighting until one wins and the other dies. This is for entertainment.

Spectators are male adults who pay to watch the gladiator.

Schools for children are a waste of money. Only the top level of humans (the richest) are taught to be warriors. Language is whatever is spoken. It changes with the century. Medicine is only for those who can pay for it.

Housing is basic, no frills or comfort. The house has one room where brothers live once they reach adulthood. Drinks are mostly alcoholic. Food is fresh, cooked and eaten same day. Seasoning is seen as sissy, fussy, waste of time.

Fashion, glamour is unnecessary, waste of time and resources. Vanity is muscle without a cause. Games are organized to see who wins. Winning is the only status that matters.

The most popular men are those who have the most children from different mothers kept in the barn. No-one cares who their parents are. Some generations ago it was a status to know who your father was.

Life expectancy is 40 years for males. No-one records female life expectancy.

PLANET IN SEARCH OF REAL HUMANS

 Real humans don't pretend to love power more than life. We live in life. We wouldn't be here if there was only power but no love for life. We were born from not just a uterus but through a woman who carried that life until it was ready to leave her body. It was an embryo. It came from a woman's body and a man's seed. It grew by the warmth of a woman's blood and the elements that kept her body healthy like food and water. From habits and education that came from parents, grandparents, nurses and the love they learned from their parents. With the wisdom that came from others in the community that was based on wisdom and love. Generation after generation learning, living, and passing on their knowledge to young ones. Some believe this along with nature, came from GOD.

GOD is the name of the deity we sometimes pray to, who resembles all we don't know because the beginning came before we were born, before we had pen, paper, words and language. There are many different stories about the beginning because we have imagination and often think about the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is the one question we cannot let go of. It won't go away until we become so vain we believe our personal power is greater we brag about our achievements to the extent nothing else matters. Until it does.

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This is just a belief I carry

People are born free and when we are allowed to create societies where freedom is honoured, this enables us to learn as much as we can to maintain respect for life. Once we learn how to maintain respect we can build on our own abilities. Like, to cook a hot meal, sing in a choir, find a lover, have children, nurture those we care for.

It gets complicated when others needs clash with ours. We then must think seriously and act cautiously, not assume power over others unless we are given a job like policing, health care, teaching, building, and others, we don't need to tell others what they should do. Power over others is a responsibility not a game, not a stage show. Power doesn't make life easy for us. It is a responsibility. However we can understand our longing for power when we were children, when we had to do as others who have power over us. Many experiences were painful, our own preferences were ignored, we had to keep our own mouth shut.

Then as we age we see and feel the stress of getting along, particularly when the options were not suited to our own temperaments.

Life is a trap. We have to eat, sleep, go to work, care for family and other responsibilities. Then we learn life is not fair. Some things hurt. Sometimes we are blamed for something we didn't do. The treatment of men and women in slavery. The treatment of different groups like Jews, Arabs. Treatment of women in patriarchal societies. Treatment of those with different abilities.

People who have power over us. But one thing is certain, if we don't do anything when we observe injustice, cruelty, greed, vanity, hate - life will become more painful for the innocent.

We have an obligation to observe and work towards peace and respect.

The New Dinosaurs

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Once upon a time dinosaurs roamed and ruled the earth. Little humans (as they appeared to giants) stayed in their caves out of fear. Alright I don't know that they stayed in their caves. Somehow they survived and outlived the monster.

The good news is we are still here. Bad news is we seem to be destroying our chances for survival.

There is a tendency to dismiss the idea of nurture as a way of behaving in our capitalist technological world.

What we have achieved is a society of different worths. The highly educated, the rich, the capitalist factories, the inventors of cars, buses and trains, the hospitals, the education of health, including entertainment, circuses, television and other wonders. We humans have achieved a lot. Or at least some of us have.

We have also created the labelization of people. National names. Religious groups. Types of personalities. There is some benefit to this but we tend to get carried away making judgements, creating types, prisons, special schools, universities. 

We have slaughtered the carefree mind, filling it with fear and worry, false advertisements promoting long life and good health. Misogyny, machismo training young men to fear their feelings. Wars. Prisons. Roads. Pollution. The dictionary is too heavy to hold.

Separating people into types creates more fear. Nuclear Weapons. Laws. Newspapers.

Yes we keep building more things to create a better world. But there are always the losers and the winners.

Labelling people as losers separates us from humanity, our kin. Today we have the most powerful nation run by opportunists. We inherited our own enemy. We try to segregate them as we have for centuries.

The "upper class" who have enough money to buy a big home, send their children to good schools, places of worship and other things to create a "better" world. Unfortunately privilege has also destroyed better worlds. We are trapped by fear. It's not our fault. But it is our fault. 

Workers, engineers, fishermen, wives, mothers, lawyers, capitalists, bus drivers, teachers, mothers, housekeepers, garbage pick ups, gardeners, shop-keepers, scientists, doctors, nurses, and on it goes.

We are amazing. So amazing we are evil, compassionate, controlling, warriors and defenders. As time moves on we may be described as magical, but the future looks scary. To all of us. Rich or poor.

So let's stop judging, making enemies in our minds, and let's learn how to guide the future for us all.

BEFORE I SLEEP

 

Let me learn the reason for things

let me know the source

let me understand how it came to be

this constant competing for position

number 1 not number 100

let me feel the pain of those

who can only threaten

beat up and ridicule

as if they are alone on this planet

and the sky cannot see them

the birds cannot hear them

as if the world is not changed

or comforted by their three score and ten years

travelling to and from

up and down

in and out

listening and speaking

crying and laughing

eating and letting it pass through

her body

down into a different world entirely

of course its not what I digest

that matters after the breath stops

after reading and listening

to everything or anything

when my mind stops

forever while the rivers

keep trickling on and on

are you asleep yet?

Let me learn the reason for things

let me know the source

let me understand how it came to be

this constant competing for position

number 1 not number 100

let me feel the pain of those

who can only threaten

beat up and ridicule

as if they are alone on this planet

and the sky cannot see them

the birds cannot hear them

as if the world is not changed

or comforted by their three score and ten years

travelling to and from

up and down

in and out

listening and speaking

crying and laughing

eating and letting it pass through

her body

down into a different world entirely

of course its not what I digest

that matters after the breath stops

after reading and listening

to everything or anything

when my mind stops

forever while the rivers

keep trickling on and on

are you asleep yet?

This is how the world will end if we don't do anything

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You may think this is just another post that's scary to make us feel powerless. I don't think Chris Hedges wants us to feel powerless but he has been fighting this, in my opinion, to the best of his ability.

He is hoping we the people will pick up the shofar or whatever else we can, and decide to do something. I know it's not a happy idea, nor is it perfect. We need everyone who loves life more than things, to pay attention, to find their gifts (abilities) and do whatever they can.

There are several heroes besides Chris Hedges, like Robert Reisch, other Canadians who stand up for protecting life on this planet. The difference between them and us, is we ordinary people are not fighting for money, the banks, the false interests who say they represent a noble traditions, but only seek to be on the right side of integrity, the health of this planets survival.

Rivka and Mohammad sung by Bob Bossin

Artwork by Sima Elizabeth Sheffrin 

Very sad song that should wake us up.

The Reason for Turning Every Day Into a Battleground

 

Is to delete natural life and the memory of it. To kill all humans so we forget who we are and submerge our entire language and memory into a never ending war, killing our minds and hearts. Kill humanity but don't stop there. Kill all breathing creatures if they have eyes and hearts. Fill this planet with creatures  incapable of love or nurture, humans who can count how much power they have and to invent new games to keep winning.

Winning whatever as long we see what they have won. What have we won? World War I. World War II. Artificial Intelligence. Government. Control almost but not quite.

Soccer, Football, Tennis, Rowing, Painting, Singing, Acting, Beauty Contests, Wealth, Control almost, Medicine, Theatre.

The more we are consumed with winning the more we become small and irrelevant, polluting the air, turning our own bodies into trophies. Beauty.

Weapons of mass destruction. We can name all the inventors, or almost all. What will the next hero invent? Camps for the disposable. It's been tried before. Naming those minds and hearts we can do without? Make them illegal? Go to war against them. Kill them all. Find a new scapegoat. A new reason to live or die for.

Anything but loving life in all its forms.

Are we humans or sick puppies?

STOP!!!

JUST STOP IT!

WE INVENTED WAR. Yes animals kill each other but haven't invested so much  emphasis in hate, right or wrong, citizens or enemies.

JUST BECAUSE WE ARE NOT IMPORTANT, doesn't mean we should kill others, create new reasons, new religions, be in control!

We are important but not in competition, not finding the RULER. NOT BEING SUPERIOR OR THE BEST.

Whitewash and The Mental Health of the White Man

https://truthout.org/articles/the-rights-push-to-whitewash-history-is-a-precursor-to-fascism/ 

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-view-from-north-of-the-border?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

Don't flinch. This is how terror begins. With the vulnerability of strong opinions. Opinions are useful as long at they don't take you away from the real world which is vulnerable. You are vulnerable.

Do what you can. Don't try to be the angel or the great warrior.

We are all vulnerable, all at risk. We are human. 

What Have We Done?

We've created a warrior society to outlast nature

teaching people to threaten their kids

with punishments

taking males out of the nursery

to learn they are on their own

and all they have is muscle

fists and fear to keep them onside

inside alert to the dangers all around

on other islands across the sea

in the sky on the moon

where we cannot keep an eye

on all the threats they face.

Also created the pecking order

different levels of authority

waiting to punish us

as soon as we step out of line.

And reasons to fear strangers

and men who are articulate

like university professors

like politicians with deep voices

throwing out endless lists

of behaviour to be afraid of

warnings beyond warnings

stacking weapons to overcome

as well as splitting up nations

into smaller nations

headed by angry men

building muscles all over their body

except their minds.

No their minds are too dangerous

they have been known to think

to question to write to publish

forget the dumbbells.

Now beyond civilization

isolated and silent

they think too much

dictionaries are everywhere

on desks

and social media.

How can we control thousands

of thoughts running roughshod

over news manufactured

for peace and calm?

At a time where women threaten

to get ever more educated

learning new ideas

or old ideas that threatened

a smooth running nation

where articulated egos

men with agendas

with fists still in gloves

knowing how women

afraid enough to learn

the art of teaching

beyond university

no longer convinced

grandfather will protect them.

relying on ideas new and old

to show how easy it could be

to organize nations

minds ready to work for

the greater good of all

for sanity and justice

respect and love

as if this was the song

we were meant to learn.

Yes. There Is You!

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What struggles do you engage in! How are you caring for the life of those you love and those you have yet to meet?

What skills do you bring to this day? Please list them. To dismiss what you bring is to deny the work, love and discipline of all the people you have met.

Are you a deep thinker? Do you resist expressing your opinion before you have done your personal research.

Do you consider how your thoughts and opinions may hurt others?

Write down a list of your accomplishments that would not normally be noticed. Did you ever stop and pick up a stranger?

Did you ever speak up for someone who was considered not popular? 

Did you read a disturbing account of injustice involving people you don't know personally?

Did you ever apologize for a decision you made then realize you were wrong?

Have you ever been "shamed" by false accusations yet carried on doing what you thought was right?

Have you ever fought for vulnerable people and suffered judgement against you because of that?

Do you care for a family?

Do you keep your promises for as long as you can?

Have you ever been publicly thanked or given a reward?

See? You are a person of integrity. You are a mensch.

 

Is There Anything Besides Trumps Threats?

Are we really so poor we have no imagination, no intelligence, no life experience?

We can read realities from our work lives. Do we believe that one narcissist can rule the world by cruelty and contempt? Yes he has power and we will be affected by it but does that mean we shall be crushed? Do we have to bow down to it?

Do we have not alternatives such as compassion and encouragement? Do we have no healers and knowledge about health and various countries in the world? Was there no Martin Luther King, no Margaret Atwood, no Tayler Swift, and all the people who wrote, sang, studied and wrote? 

What happened to CBC news? Are we fruit flies waiting to be destroyed by Trumps ambitions? Who knew it would come to this? Who didn't know? What have we lost? Functional media? Self respect? Do we have schools? Churches? Synagogues? Social groups? Politicians who have developed a sense of humanity?

Yes we do! We have children who take life seriously, who want to grow up and who have faith that winning is only important if the prize is freedom to be intelligent and thoughtful.

Chris Hedges is still thoughtful and good at pointing out our survival depends on justice and integrity, but he is aware that monied interests can sell us short, dismiss the worth of workers. 

Are we really so poor we have no imagination, no intelligence, no life experience? What the current players are afraid of is educated intelligent women who have ideas on how to heal the global economic world but who fear they will lose their misogynist power system.

We can read realities from our work lives. Do we believe that one narcissist can rule the world by cruelty and contempt?

Do we have not alternatives such as compassion and encouragement? Do we have no healers and knowledge about health and various countries in the world? Was there no Martin Luther King, no Margaret Atwood, no Tayler Swift, and all the people who wrote, sang, studied and wrote?

Yes the big bully who wants war more than peace, maybe hopes America will change its name to Trumpia before he dies. But the earth still has intelligent people asking questions dealing with serious questions of survival on this planet.

 

Heartbreak, War and Violence

This is a time of grieving. If you see yourself as part of a larger group called humanity. 

There is little to no sign of heroic accomplishments. I know of many people who are kind, intelligent and creative. They tend to work in small groups, writing, performing, acknowledging inspiring art and performances in the world today.

We might notice the news seems focused on a few bad actors to the extent you might feel that must be all there is. You might even check the horoscope for a sign this is true.

Then there is Israel, and even the new president of USA. The most powerful nation in the world or North America ... 

For some reason our minds appear to be obsessed with power in all it's different forms.

 

There's Another Train - wisdom from Bob Bossin

 

https://bbossin.bandcamp.com/track/another-train?from=fanpub_fb_trk

Bob Bossin manages to educate people on what's happening and how we can win by paying attention to that voice that questions the greed of our capitalist habits.

We Have Proven Reality Doesn't Matter To Those In Power

Leaders, and their followers are not interested in a fair and just future, where vulnerable people are protected from greed and the violence it creates. What we are seeing now are a special kind of animal. One that doesn't suffer reality, justice, or freedom from narcissism. 

Forget the reality of life on this planet. Pretend we are in an action movie with a cast of caricatures. Egos competing for the most of what each of them wants.

 

Robert Reich And The Crisis We Face

"

Understand the nature of power – who possesses it and why, how it is wielded, and for what purposes. Power means not being accountable for actions that hurt others but that increase your own power and wealth.." https://www.eurasiareview.com/02012025-robert-reich-the-20-realities-of-the-american-system-oped/#google_vignette

Power is many things to many people, but when Adolf Hitler took power in the 1930's he changed the world and not for the better. The suffering of Hitler's targets were beyond traumatizing.

In my naïveté I believed humanity was a decent animal who had a conscience and was shocked to hear of the tortures forced on innocent people.

But the point of power is to create a world where the majority of people have very little power over their lives. That's what war is about.

So we who are not invested in weapons of mass or psychological destruction must practice loving kindness as well as good planning.