I
start this blog with some confusion, money. Now don’t get me wrong I understand
money is the way many people sustain and regulate their lives, generally
consumed by it and the need to have more of it. In the most basic description
it is just paper with some fancy looking print and holograms upon it of which
man generally associates as a valuable asset.
I could understand it having “value” if it was regulated by being attached to a
precious metal as it once used to be but no longer. The US dollar is now controlled
by future oil exploration and a forecast of what oil can be extracted from the
earth to support the dollar, so basically it is based on something that is in
the ground that can’t be seen but certainly is what rules the world. Future oil
exploration is becoming difficult in the traditional sense of acquiring oil as
the reserves throughout the sea beds are not only becoming more scarce but with
the growing debt that consumes the US and the threat of oil running out has
seen times changing behind political closed doors.
Over the last 20 years the desperation for extracting the black gold has been
one that generally requires a lot of political corruption of nations and
failing that military intervention, if we cannot corrupt, we shall conquer.
This sort of mentality that adopts use of the military to extract a resource
out of the earth is somewhat barbaric as in every war there are casualties. Now
to you or I that is a tragic loss of life that could have been avoided if the politics
had been more, well political... Mutual agreements on oil extraction and sale
of the oil surely could be met. However that isn’t the stance that is taken
when it comes to the old black gold because human lives can just be expendable
with this quest, from soldiers to civilians and even environmental damage can
be wrote off as a cost of doing business. There it is again, money... These
pieces of paper, fancy pieces of paper can dictate whether a nation remains
peaceful or war torn. Whether a child grows up in a loving family home or has
to watch their family burn because of some other nation’s greed and lack of
human emotion.
And after all that war and the oil has been taken what happens to this “national
debt”? Does it reduce slightly because of the billions of dollars the oil has
created? No, the tax payer pays for the troops to go and “liberate” this oil,
the oil is extracted and sold back to the tax payer at a highly increased cost
and the profits flow back up stream not caring how much destruction that has
been left in the aftermath of this crusade. A thought has to be generated for
all the people of these oil hungry nations that cannot afford the basic heating
needs to survive the cold months; it kind of seems pointless that a nation is
stripped of a natural resource to support another which cannot support its own
poorest people.
What is the point? Have we as a species not evolved enough to stop wallowing in
this fakery? If the money has begun to overrule the basic instincts of natural
law (knowing right and wrong) on international levels then when is it going to
stop?
We the people are the real commodity, the fruits of our labours pay the way for
these atrocities to happen. The government is supposed to look after the people
and respect people’s views but this has been distorted through time teaching
people that we need these individuals in power to lead us. If we are ever
required to be lead in a direction should it be one of this nature?
