Someone speaking in this part of the world today said that the richest 85 people in the world had more wealth than 50% of the world's poorest people. That is 3.5 billion people.
Can this be justified, can capitalism, which we are all involved in, be considered a sane way for humanity to continue to conduct itself?
It seems we are all capitalist as we want more of everything for ourselves and the people around us. We crave attachments and acquisitions and build them up as trophies. Then we feel the need to protect them and so conflict ensures as everybody does the same.
Where are the voices, and not just the words, of those who are really fundamentally looking into the factual problems of the human race: the killing, the poverty, the selfishness, the resentment, all of the conflict.
The media fails us because it is in support of the system that supports it. It will not bite the hand that feeds it.
If our leaders espouse national patriotism behind a flag and our religious leaders promote their faith ahead of other faiths then we have to be a light unto ourselves as others have vested interests to support and do not want to look at the facts of poverty, exploitation and all the rest of it.
As J. Krishnamurti has said "The world is sick and there is no one outside you to help you except yourself."
Can we understand our desire for ownership of relationships as well as material goods and perhaps really see that we are only concerned with our own self-centered security because of our fears and not the fact that ownership be not bring real security without conflict?
Only when we have resolved our deepest insecurities and fears can we understand and deal properly with the gross inhumanity of people set against each other whether it is because of our economic, nationalistic, cultural or religious conditioning.
