The corporate oligarchy, "our corporate masters" as Gore Vidal calls it, never stops seeking to seduce we the sheeple in order to manipulate and exploit us. All this adrenalin pumping violence, passion, and drama we are fed by the media effectively keeps our minds off our more tangible concerns, such as, what percentage of the world's population will eventually end up in poverty, and what per cent will own and control everything.
We the exploited really don't have to cooperate in our own exploitation as much as we do. For the most part, we are willing accomplices. But as the situation worsens, as the extreme circumstances of inequality increase, the masses begin to stir, and awaken.
No, it isn't the one per cent versus the ninety nine per cent. But this symbolic description depicts a fundamental truth about humans; that we express our desire for survival by competing fiercely for power and resources, and this competition leads to extreme inequalities, which, in a high density population, generates conflict.
Certainly the people who have everything earned and deserve it. And hard work and good decisions can produce great prosperity for anyone. But we must ask; do we want a world with 7 billion mansions, each with a private jet parked in the lavish garage? Just how much material prosperity do we want, how should we distribute it, and how much human wealth can planet earth endure?
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