Last week I added a post asking the question - “So what is your personal changes and agenda if you were in charge to clean up the mess we are in?” and as I suspected no one jumped in with all the right answers. One could acclaim that everyone is just complaining but not willing to step up and take the monster on or that it isn’t just that easy and no defined step by step plan will immerge. I would say both.
This whole scenario makes me think of the movies we’ve seen where the terrible bad mob takes over the town and all the residents are pissed but no one willing to take them on and keeps waiting for the guy dressed in white to ride in and kill the “demon”.
In my opinion the demon is BIG corp. business. This theory probably has been beat to death but it’s very transparent. It’s the problem by it’s very nature. It’s like a boulder rolling down hill, taking and spewing debris in it’s path. The rock it’s self is not evil but what it creates leaves destruction and as it grows it becomes more powerful and engulfing.
Big corp business has taken control over our politicians and government, trade, the media, and the very organizations that supposedly represent us. It by nature had to – it’s a matter of survival. The mob that took over the town had two choices – take control or leave. It is a parasite that has to feed on others. The problem with BIG, be it government or business, is that it is too difficult to control by the populous.
The truth is that no one candidate for President, no representative to any association and no grumbling and outrage will change it or destroy it. You can throw rocks at all you want and it will laugh. You can trust a spear into it’s side and hurt it but it will just get mad and retaliate. Not until you bring it to it’s knees and cut the head off will we win!
As painful as it will be for many, including me, the only possible solution is a complete depression. Only then will the townspeople and politicians stand up and do what’s right. It will be nasty, painful and there will be collateral damage, but it may be the only way for survival. The irony is it won’t be “the man in the white hat” or the townspeople that will bring it down but the cancer (GREED) that drives all big businesses may devour on itself. As they say – Mother Nature has a way of correcting itself.