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Hey world, what’s up?

How’s it going?

What are your thoughts on the world? on your country? on my country (the USA)? on how our countries relate to one another? on how our countries effect one another? 

I recently realize that I have been one of the many complacent and blind Americans.  I didn’t realize how our money was created.  I never understood debt or credit.  And hell, I even had economics classes and received a full fledged MBA from an accredited institution!  And I can tell you, now that I understand and comprehend it a little better, I did not know a damn thing about how our system here in America works.

That’s right, like many Americans I defended our country’s honor to the bone and that we were the best and that we were always right.  But I never understood what I was defending.  I heard Europeans hating us Americans and saying terrible things about us and our government when I was over there.  I thought they were all insane and didn’t know what they were talking about, because I had no part of any of this, and as far as I could tell none of that was going on so it must be all lies.

Imagine my surprise to find out those Europeans were on to something that I was blind to, because I was a shining example of the product of our system.  It’s great to have faith in your Nation (I prefer to have faith in my Nation’s people, and I no longer have much faith in my government) but it should not be blind.  I think the people of my Nation can be wonderful and have great capacities for good, love, productivity, ingenuity, innovative and creative new ideas, and I also think this is true of people of every nation around the world.  However, I now have started to see the truths behind the failures the American government and the capitalist system have to offer.  But I also see that I am stuck in the system and can’t get out.

I think this is a problem that plagues many of us across the world, that we are stuck with corrupt governments calling the shots and forcing us into wars with each other for their own political gain and interests, and rarely the interests of their people.  And we are all stuck.  Stuck in these systems and we can’t get out.  At least I don’t see a way.

Take the upcoming 2008 presidential election for example, one person just put it to me that voting between McCain and Obama is like voting between a slave master who will whip you 20 times or 10 times.  What you want to do is stand up and scream and shout that you don’t even want a slave master at all!  You are going to rebel and not give in to the system and refuse to vote for a slave master just to show them what you think.  Well now you are stuck with the slave master who wants to whip you 20 times.  So, are you really better off?  Wouldn’t you rather just exercise your right to choose getting whipped 10 times because it’s better than 20?  This is what my voting decision feels like.  What do you do in this situation?  I feel pretty helpless.  Especially learning that our vote counting system has been potentially compromised and so we have no way of knowing whether our votes to get whipped 10 times instead of 20 are even getting counted.  We might just get whipped 20 times anyways!

I didn’t want the Iraq war.  I didn’t understand it.  It all happened so fast.  I didn’t get what was going on.  More importantly I didn’t know the history or any background or any information.  I didn’t even watch the news because I felt it was probably corrupt anyways.  But that just made me even more ignorant.  I decided I was in favor of war once people I knew started getting sent out and I figured, well we’re out there, hit them hard and hit them fast so I can get my friends back.  It’s only now I find out the war was all based on lies and that we had no right or reason for going in there and that it was an utter and complete and huge mistake.

Blind, uneducated, and unaware, I voted for Bush in the 2004 election because I thought he had to at least be married to the idiot who wanted to pull out of Iraq leaving it in shambles so we could create another Afghanistan.  I formally apologize to my fellow citizens, Iraq, and the world for that vote (which apparently could easily be manipulated anyways).  I supported a war I didn’t understand.  I had no idea we really were the tyrants going in and killing with only one purpose, to control oil (I thought this was all propaganda and that the oil connections had to be all lies-surely America when not go to war over something so stupid).  Well apparently we would.  Apparently we did.  Apparently we had no intention of leaving.  Ever.

This is horrific.  This is tragic.  This is UnAmerican.  This is not what I stand for.  This is not what I believe in.  I believe in the goodness and the love and the connectedness I have with my fellow working Americans.  I would like to think that we all share these common feelings around the world.  The desire to be connected to one another.  To appreciate and love one another.

I never understood how the German people could stand by and let Hitler do what he did.  Or the Russian people to stand by and let Stalin wipe out all of the kulaks.  Now I have been an American who stood by and let George Bush kill Iraqi’s for oil.  Destroy their nation so we could rebuild it at a profit to Iraqis and Americans (but of course the American companies care more about their portion of that profit anyways).

I was dooped into fearing Sadam Hussein as a serious threat to my safety.  I was fed lies.  Sadam let it happen so that he would not appear weak to his people, he lied and told us he had WMDs so we went in, and he had none.  So both of our stupid governments are to blame for this war, and all of us people are left in the middle wondering what’s going on, why, and what do we do about it?  We don’t want this.  Obviously we don’t want this.  What sane person is pro-death of the innocent?

I now recognize that my government has had it’s time and place in history and needs to make some serious reforms.  I think most likely all of the governments in the world are in need of some serious reforms.  We need to all start finding sustainable solutions for each other.  War and capitalism aren’t stable.  At least debt-based capitalism seems it will never fail to eventually lead to spikes in prosperity followed by market crashes and economic depression.  So why don’t we do something about it?  Why don’t we start working on real solutions for real change?

We are just now starting to figure it out people.  We’re still bickering toddlers on the playground.  We haven’t yet learned how to play nice and be civilized with one another.  We haven’t quite got the hang of sharing and forgiveness yet.  But we’re growing up.  We’re learning.  We’re improving.  And we’re getting there.

It’s a learning process.  And I want to learn more.  I think the best way to learn more is to keep stepping outside of my box and to use the power of the internet and the information and communication technologies to seek out more information and opinions of the people to find out what is really going on out there and what we, the people of planet Earth, really want for ourselves and each other and what we can do.  I want to understand the world.  I want to understand where we’ve been, where we going, and I want to think about where we want to go.  What do we want?  If we didn’t have to worry about money, government, or crime, what would we do with our lives?

If I didn’t have to worry about money to survive, I would probably spend it trying to learn as much as possible about human genetics and try to work with other experts to find medical applications to genetic knowledge to help humans ease their suffering.  I can’t do this.  Why?  Money.  Hierarchy.  I can’t afford the 6 years of school to get a PhD so I can go do research in this field, which would be mostly lab bitch work (that we could probably get a machine to do better and faster) until I’d “paid my dues” enough that I could start “really thinking” about it.  Well that just sucks.  I don’t want to do that.  That doesn’t sound fun.  So I’m taking a job instead that pays just enough to get by but keeps me from having to succumb to years of debt to obtain knowledge.  I would also learn Japanese and Sign Language among other things.  But I have to work to survive, so yes I can get this knowledge free on my spare time.  But that will take ages, because work doesn’t leave you with much spare time.

So because of money I can’t do what I most want to do in this world, which is to help humanity, because I selfishly want to keep a roof over my head and food in my belly.

So world, what’s it like for you?

What are you thinking?

What’s the insight into your life?

What is it really like out there for you?

Because I would really like to know, and can’t trust the media, and for the first time can get out there and ask you all straight up, and have the chance to receive some answers.

I want to know what the rest of the world thinks about all of our situations here on earth.

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