Hey gentle reader, I know that most of my posts are fun, some might say trivial but now I have an audience. Its time to get serious.
What stops us from doing what we want or becoming what we want to be? Each day we wake up and do the same things day in and day out. When we were young our imaginations gave us new adventures everyday. We have gone from having all the time in the world to just marking time in our diaries and appointment books.
Has freedom given us the life we lead today?
Are we really free?
Food, water and land are things that in the past we had free access to but now they are just commodities to be packaged, marketed and sold by the massive corporations that own our planet.
We listen to the rules and obey them blindly calling it the "Price of Freedom."
We are presented the world from a textbook without experiencing it for ourselves. From an early age, we are told not to be different, to comply or be cast aside from society.
We spend so much time devoted to our job and career we dont spend time devoted to ourselves. Eventually we are to old to work and we die leaving the next generation to repeat the cycle.
We are just fuel, fuel that drives the machine that gives the elite their power. Money is not power, Power is Power. Money is just the tool they use to keep us under control. The corporations gave us jobs and money; we gave them the planet.
Trees are replaced by factories that pollute the rivers with stinking slime. Factory farming on a massive scale destroys the Earth's balance. People starve in their billions but corporations don't help. There is no profit in saving starving children.
Our world is full of commodities to be bought and sold, but what will happen when the last drinkable water is poisoned and the last breathable air is polluted? We are not destroying the planet......just the life on it.
The food we eat is full of chemicals and designed to be profitable rather that nourishing. The media don't report this because the media is owned by the corporations that sell the products and they want to keep us ignorant.
We give ourselves praise for our civilization, but its only in the last 100 years that women got the vote and black people were treated as equals.Have we humans learned so little from our past that we still strike out with primal aggression. We say we are better than animals; but are we really?
Violence is not a solution. Future wars will never be won. They will destroy all solutions and possible solutions.
Human beings are so connected with our technology, smart-phones, tablets, the internet itself that we are now completely disconnected with each other. We see extraordinary things on television and the internet but we surround ourselves with the mundane in our day to day lives. We hope that change will come from outside yet are unable or unwilling to change ourselves.
In most elections in our democracies we may just as well flip a coin to choose who to vote for to be Prime Minister or President. Politics has morphed into celebrity and the image is now way more important than the message. These same politicians do not serve us but their corporate masters who fund them into power.
The human race did not endure because it was the fastest or strongest but because it was amazingly inquisitive and it worked together to create a better world. This planet we all share is 4.6 billion years old, as individuals we will be lucky to live for 80. We are just a flash in time but our impact is eternal.
Instead of pulling apart we should come together with the same voice. The internet, social media and yes, even blogs like the one you are reading now, can have a tremendous power for bringing change, Change that can determine the future of our race and our planet.
Yes you can follow the same well beaten path our forebears took; or you can break away and create new more challenging ones. Keep looking at those screens on your phones and laptops, but every now and then, lift your head and take a good look around. When you do it is your future you will see.
Life is not a movie, the script is still being written, by you.
It is my story, your story and our story after all.
#mystory #yourstory #ourstory
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