| |
|
Thought Control
Why does Capitalism thrive today?
Television – the thought controller of our age. Never before has those who rule had so much direct control over our habits. Control of the media has converged such that media is like the Orwell’s novel 1984 predicted, blurts out thought control. It speaks the Doublespeak, one day supporting Osama Bin Laden the next day calling him the Devil, neglecting to mention that there are huge Oil profits to be made through pumping oil through Afghanistan.
Who has that control of Television, is it the politicians whom we elected to control us, no it is the same people who control 51% of the Global economy. The unaccountable Global Corporations. Bit sized chunks of useless entertainment with no depth and no soul are fed to us with relentless determination. They are only separated by thousands of iconic subvertisments conditioning us to consume with out conscience. This is the role of Television in the world today. It is simply a tool to hypnotically force us to consume. It also forces its viewpoints. In the UK we here and see our Mr Blair saying we will not import conflict timber, and we believe him, we do not ask questions, indeed with Television, questions are not permitted, information is a one way street, and only in the format that supports Global Capitalism. In Naomi Kliens book No Logo we see alternative points of view trying to buy airtime on national television Stations. Are we surprised that they are refused? that the biggest Media monopolist on the planet Rupert Murdoch has a son in law, importing this timber from Angola and fuelling armies that suppress the locals into starvation Typically the news from Angola is none existent, let alone a rational debate on the causes.
What defies my imagination is how many religions speak of the love of thy neighbour and yet the majority of the world is financially worse of than 50 years ago though a process of bullying by the World Bank and IMF. Religions are in a state of decline, not wanting to move in political worlds, not even providing their wealth for the poor, it is no wonder they are under subscribed. Of course this does not surprise as when one considerers the driving motivation and fuel of capitalism is Profit and to make a profit, you must rip someone off. Therefore Capitalism is synonymous with exploitation and then we get a clear picture, The Developed Nations need the ‘less developed nations in order to survive. For Capitalism to survive in such a heighten state as it is today, it is necessary for 2/3 of the word to be under privileged, In order to take part in Capitalism you must be prepared to make other s suffer that is the sad truth. Every politician every business man every employee is in fact part of the status quo and their mission is to enslave the majority of the world in order to maintain their privileged position. It has been espoused by Darwinists to justify the survival of the fittest. The fact that all religions go against this hypothesis suggests that people do want to be compassionate, they do not want others to suffer for them, but the singular decline in religion these days attests to the reduction of the power of compassion.
What is important about the today’s global economy is that finally we the people are able to act global instead of just nationally, in both government and economics. Corporations have showed us that they can defy international barriers. We the people can also defy the national barriers. We can act globally and take back the power to exploit in order to promote compassion. Instead of relying on a few under funded radical organisations to police the world through their lack of media access we can make this world a better place and safer by restoring equilibrium to an unbalanced earth. To effect change we need a majority and that means that the majority must understand the present system is the cause of many of the problems in the world today. Poverty in Africa is a direct result of the IMF, corrupt governments and the continuation of the global corporations to exploit natural resources in this wonderful continent. Sure they suffer from droughts, floods, lack of infrastructure, education etc but none of these problems go are insurmountable with the huge resources we have at our disposal in the ‘developed nations. The profits from one oil giant Shell last year of 10 billion, would have sorted out several African nations. But we are prepared to line our pockets and look the other way when it comes to suffering of others. While Shell is busy paying off the military to kill local protesters in Nigerian oil fields , we take the dividends while happily going off to church on Sundays and confessing the crime of coveting our neighbour wives. It’s all out of sync now and this situation has become self perpetuating. More people died of starvation on the 9/11, but because they did so in countries where we exploit rather than rejoice in our good fortune, we ignored that fact. We concentrated on the ‘media’ outrage and gave the military a good excuse to push on in their efforts to find other countries to drain.
We should be looking for a world where everybody has the same basic human rights and then an incident like 9/11 may never have happened. America is the focal point of the Capitalist Dream but it is equally represented I the European Union, just more quietly. Typically the Americans are brasher about it, but most developed nations are taking part in the military coupe in Afghanistan.
How can it be that people would rather get fat on the poverty of others. Do they not feel the terrible weight of injustice, when they see pictures of starving children. I suppose we have become immune to those images these days, preferring to eat the cereals that come from those countries with high tariffs attached rather than give back to these poor nations that which has been stolen from them.
When I see the local people of Africa I see a reason and that reason is us we are responsible for the Globe now and we owe it to the human race to manage resources responsibly for the greater good of mankind, our brothers and sisters.
icopyright |
|
|
