JD
New member
Ummm. No. What I find offensive is that people with means often live in gross excess, consuming the bulk of the worlds resources at the cost of oppressing people who are born in less fortunate situations in other parts of the world. This American Lifetyle perpetuates poverty and oppression to insure cheap labor and raw matierial extraction from places like africa, which are then shipped to manufacturing centers like India and China where other exploited workers create goods for us to use and throw away when either precieved or deisgned obolesence forces us or makes us think we need to upgrade. This basic materials economy drives our forign policy which is responsible for most of the death and destruction throughout the world. Gross excess is what I hate and mostly that is practiced by people who have alot of disposable income and don't have a clue about how unsustainable their exsistance is. Funny thing is, these same people will tell you what a shame all the suffering in Africa is w/o even realizing that those people suffer under a the rule of a warlord and regimes put and kept in place by us so multi nationals can continue to extract the resources w/o having to compensate the people of africa. I know alot of people up here who live on trust funds to some degree or another. Alot of them I call friends. They are poeple who understand the reality of our world and live very modest lives depite the fact that they have tons of coin. At the same time I know people who are as fortunate who are living lives of gross excess. These people are the problem in the world today. We are brainwashed to consume, it's what we are told gives us value. It's sad. I want to be rich...because I would love to be able to afford to give my time to one of the many organizations throughout the country who are trying to counteract the impact of the military industial complex on our daily lives, but, like most of us...pretty much struggle to just keep my house, my health, and my sanity. ( I know alot of you will think my sanity is already lost after reading my post here, and to you I say look beyond the thin veil of lies for the truth, starting with your own exsistance) I grew up in afluence, not too long ago, someone pointed me in a direction to see the global consequences of such an exsistance....and it's ugly. But this is a whole other conversation.
