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We thank the 99% who have reminded everyone, everywhere,
that we still know how to resist
and we would like to tell people to, don't let up, to take the streets
especially on May 1st,
no work, no school, no banking, no shopping on May 1st.
Shut it down, take the streets and remind everyone how much they need the 99%, thank you.
Chanting - "We are the 99%"
It has become a main stream view that it's us, the ninety-nine percent, vs. them the one percent.
While on the surface this appears to be the case,
if we should be bothered to take a closer look it becomes evident this is not the situation.
Clearly we have an international banking cartel bent on controlling our political system,
large global corporations which buy their way into the political arena pulling the strings
of our so called elected representatives. Treating us like little more than cattle with
low-paying unsatisfying jobs, selling us made-to-break garbage with little to no concern for us or
our environment. To the so-called one percent everything is profit, power and control.
Those labelled the one percent are part of the one hundred percent and are exhibiting
behaviours our social model has very effectively reinforced and rewarded them for their entire lives.
If you beat a dog, that environment of abuse teaches the dog to be abusive.
Humans areno different! We are raised and educated tocompete, to get the best marks at school,
rewarded with scholarships and better-paying jobs. The one who can best regurgitate the
mind-numbing crap we are taught through our adolescence gets the highest marks, is showered
with awards, gets the scholarships to prestigious schools and ends up in the high-paying job.
Not that there are many jobs, never mind high-paying jobs, floating around these days.
How many times during our educational process are we encouraged to question society,
when do our our educators question us about the relevance of our very social design?
While we can identify criminal behaviour, the ability to understand what causes people to act in
a particular way can, for the most part, be lost to us. Why are so many people self-medicating
with drugs like alcohol, cannabis, or ***? Is this recreational escapism and if so,
what are these people trying to escape from? Why do the most violent amongst us have a history
of abuse in their childhoods, yet get treated like this abuse is nothing more than a handy excuse?
Why not understand the science and figure out how to go about braking the cycle
and what doing so may require?
We appear to be so preoccupied with placing blame that we do not have the time or desire
to look beneath the surface to figure out from where this aberrant behaviour stems.
Lock them up--such an easy solution--no need to investigate the impacts of our social environment
on our intellectual, emotional and physical development. We can put these "bad people"
in prison and get on with our shopping.
It is not the one percent we should be harping on about, but the system that generates a
one percent in the first place. It has become socially acceptable to hate on these people
as if they are less than people, like they are somehow all that is wrong with our society.
If we could lock these people up and throw away the key, everything would be better.
What we appear to completely fail to understand is that even if we locked up the "corrupt"
people, there would be new people ready to step into their place immediately, being as
indoctrinated into this system as their predecessors.
No matter how enticing it may be to point our fingers and blame someone, if we fail
to address the social root-cause, the social structure that reinforces and rewards this
behaviour with giant houses, fast cars, private jets and extravagant salaries, we will relive
the entire situation.
People are not the problem, the system is and we are all victims of this system, even
the one percent. Growing up, many have dreams of becoming movie or rock stars, driving expensive
cars, or just generally having loads of money. Then as time goes by, we find we are not stars,
are driving used cars and are scraping buy trying to repay massive debts. This can lead
us to question the fairness of the system. Even still, we do not question the validity
of the system itself, rather we pontificate about how fair the system is and determine
that it could be fixed with this reform or that. While the few that do experience a degree
of "success"--if that is what we want to call it--are then subject to media scrutiny, are
consumed by a desire to have more property, more power, more money. This system excels
at generating the false needs and desires for more.
We get the statement that the evil one-percent are not going to lay down and let us change
society without a fight. Like we somehow do not realise that of the seven plus billion
people on this planet, the one percent represents something like seventy million people. When
was it concluded that over 6,930,000,000 people had to ask permission of 70,000,000 people
to do a damn thing. Our biggest problem is not this nefarious one percent, it's ourselves;
our failure to be able to identify the root cause problems which are manifesting these
symptoms. Not understanding how it is that our social environment reinforces and rewards
the aberrant behaviour of the few and leaves us feeling powerless to change anything.
We have the power, if we can stop bickering over pointless superficial crap and unite
under the common understanding that our real problem is an outdated system and not each
other. Do the so-called one percent have to be on board? Of course not; nor do they need
to be banished or ostracised. They are doing what has been taught to them and reinforced
by society at large, after all.
We are not the ninety-nine percent, we are the one-hundred percent; united we stand.
Divided... well look around; this is what divided has gotten us so far.
We are products of our environment and until we understand that and make the fundamental
changes which are required to our very social design, then nothing of substance is going
to change. Without fundamental changes we will continue to find ourselves in this self-perpetuating
feedback loop, which manifests the symptoms we tend to misdiagnose as problems.