It's been a while since I've written. I've done a lot of thinking, though. I'd like to start blogging more, it's always good to get your thoughts onto digital paper to reread later.
The world is fucked up. We'll never be able to change anything with the mindset and values that the people of earth have currently chosen to adopt. You've got poverty-stricken, war-torn countries that harbor murderers relentlessly feeding off of the poor. You have to stop and ask yourself how we've gotten to the point we're at today, where the blood of the innocent is used as a means to justify an end that no one has a say in. We have the ability to feed everyone in the world, but no one wants to do it because they'll lose money. And so, we meet the root of our problem; Money.
The idea of currency seems so flawed to me. Pieces of paper that WE give value to and that we use to measure the value of virtually everything. The way I see it, money just segregates people from each other by adding an extra layer of categorization. Not only are you a black guy from Jamaica, or a white man from Ohio, but you're now either upper, middle or lower class on top of that. The biggest issue with money is that the people who have the most of it control most of the earth. We can't break out of this chain unless THEY agree to drop it and join the rest of the world as equals, but why would they do that when they're in a position of power? A position that most people would kill for. They're not willing to give up their elite status in the monetary hierarchy.
I'd like to say I can't blame them, but they're exactly the ones to blame. Everyone needs to drop their ego and focus on the betterment of humans as a whole. We're still in the infant stages of our technological advances and while we have made major progress, we're still not nearly functioning at the level we could be by now. I'm not advocating the abolishment of the monetary system, that would be impossible because we're been so entrenched in this system for thousands of years. I just think the system needs to be revamped completely. The word "profit" holds one of the most dangerous implications because profit is synonymous with greed after a certain point. It seems like once you're used to having a lot of money, you grow a hunger for more. You used to be happy with your family sedan and your two story house, but now you need a porsche and a mansion. Why does your idea of comfortable have to change once you can afford things that will always be luxury over necessity? Imagine how much better of a place the world would be if everyone who had excess amounts of money (I mean the people making millions of dollars a year) would contribute the extra money they don't need to scientific research labs? That's just an example of an institution that would benefit society. You could donate the money to so many different causes if everyone was down to do it.
Status plays such a big role in our society these days. It's all really a power trip, if you ask me. It's just a competition to feed your ego. It's all appearances, though. The appearance of living an extravagant lifestyle that others can only dream of. Where will that get you at the end of your life? Knowing that I could have made a change that would have been beneficial to my species as a whole but didn't due to my own inability to let go of a few million pieces of paper would haunt me as I grew older.
Anyway, I spent a lot of time thinking about that lately. Interested in any sort of feedback or thoughts.
