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It's really horrible watching what is happening around us and being unable to do anything about it.
It is a very saddening realization and it echos on a global scale. I am not from the states yet I see american businesses crushing local markets and firmly planting their agenda here at the southern tip of Africa. When burger king arrived people stood in lines close to 500m long for weeks to get a taste of #ty processed foods. Wall mart has bought over local wholesale companies and they all fall under the same umbrella corporation. Everywhere I go I see ignorance and egos fueled by materialism and superficiality. Its very saddening to see a species with great potential and great thinkers being used as cattle and manipulated and forced to compete with one another. One of the greatest characteristics of humanity is compassion and its the very thing that helped us survive for so long. You still see it but its under the radar, under the mask of ''reality'' TV. There is always hope I suppose it is just a matter of how far we are willing to go to fight for what we believe in. Sitting behind computers and having discussions is a well and dandy but the real world is begging for a massive revolution. The reality lives will be lost but the question is are you willing to die for freedom or a closer concept thereof.
originally posted by: MRuss
Millions of people are beginning to see the bigger picture, to see how enslaved we are to events which we have no control over, and that are quickly spiraling out of control.
i had a friend try to tell me I was making up the new BRICS Bank (now called World Development Bank) as if it were refutable. How could he refute that which is?
But we're not at a tipping point--not yet. And it's beyond my own reckoning to understand why.
How can you overlook the breakdown of borders worldwide to progress the initiatives of Agenda 21? Have people even read Agenda 21?
How can you overlook the fact that the United States is now a plutocracy, where the elites make the decisions and the common man's opinions count very little?
How can you argue against the dumbing down of our population, the fact that most of the media is owned by a handful of corporations, that corporations like Monsanto are running the world?
How can you patently deny the obvious?
Even allowing for gun control and immigration--even beyond those things---how can you patently deny there is something sinister going on? What sort of pathological denial must one employ to carry on as if nothing is happening?
How can someone just sit there and let this great country go to pot? When every single day we are weakening this country in order to usher in this "new world," and people seem to be actually going along with it because they're too stupid too realize its even happening?
Noam Chompsky even said, "Americans don't know what's going on. But they don't even know that they don't know."
This is Noam---a prized liberal. If even he knows it, why doesn't anybody else?
I am just ready to give up some days.
It's really horrible watching what is happening around us and being unable to do anything about it.
God Bless Us All.
originally posted by: rukia
a reply to: MRuss
Indeed. And it's so much more than that, too. It's the whole world that is messed up. Just more signs of the times we live in.