No Nobel Prize for literature this year? Well, doesn’t that speak volumes on how far our society has deteriorated.
Life, and all we know of is like a graph of oscillating functions. There are peaks and then . . . well, currently we are in the trough where all the pigs eat.
I am hopeful that such upheavals mean we are on the upswing. Although the peaks are pretty bad also.
In humankind we are all too human. We need more kind.
Money, power and sex have ruled our societies long enough. It is time for new ways of being. However, I am doubtful we can change. There is a threshold we can so easily cross, which shrinks what little brain we actually use, giving us tunnel vision. That tunnel vision is greed.
Our leaders are elected solely for their talent in acquiring money, irrespective of the methods. Their only purpose for being in power is to get more money for themselves. They are barely given a slap on the wrist for their gross mistreatment of virtually everyone. Where would you and I be if we behaved so badly?
The uber rich receive awards for creating jobs (yet treat their employees as slaves). The result is they have so much money they don’t know what to do with it (say what?!). Some of these arrogant snobs could end world poverty, but launch rockets into space instead (the ultimate phallic symbol) claiming this will help and even save mankind. Puhleese.
No prizes for mankind this year.
But guess what? I want to be rich! Because I want to retire and do the things I love all day. I don’t want to launch rockets, or have slaves or run countries. Money is freedom to me. I want to live well, and live quietly.
Even with my loud voice!