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The system is going to the abyss
and it wants to drag the rest of humanity with it.
But who or what exactly is the system? Perhaps to make it easier to understand
and unmask this sort of abstract entity, we need to ask a different question.
Instead of of asking who or what is the system, maybe we should ask: who or what
represent the system? Then, maybe this abstraction becomes less hazy.
Who or what then represent the System? the state, the institutions,
the corporations, the banks, the multinationals, the transnationals,
the para-states, and finally, the organizations and individuals
who not only accept the ideology of the system, but advocate,
defend and utilize its principles and methodology that promote
the continued negation of what are fundamental to the human being:
his/her freedom and intentionality.
But where does this ideology originating from? Its principles, its methodology
-- where are these all based on, where are these all coming from? The way I
see it, these are all based on and coming from an archaic point of view, a
point of view regarding the "natural" and the "nature" of
the human being. On this basis, their ideology, principles and methodology
-- that institutionalized injustice throughout the world -- is practical, common
sensical, logical, rational, pragmatic and therefore justified. Why not? Isn't
it all natural? Isn't all according to nature?
On top of all of these -- and what makes matters worse -- they believe that
this "nature" of things were granted; it has been given by the highest
authority; it was granted by the divinity itself -- god.
From this basis, from this starting point, from this point of view, it is then
only reasonable that the aggressive succeeds, the most competitive wins, the
educated leads, the fittest survives, the richer becomes richer, etc. Of course,
not to forget: they shall all inherit the earth!
Everthing is logical, everything is reasonable, everything is justified --
and why not? it's all "natural"!
But where do all these lead us? Where else but to more concentration of power,
concentration of information, of resources, of goods, etc. In short, the appropriation
of the whole by a small part of the whole, whose consequence is pain, suffering,
hunger, war, violence in the streets, massive unemployment, discrimination,
intolerance, destruction of the environment, the abyss -- and of course, without
realizing it, the slow death of the human spirit!
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