Acidrain09

Ive been thinking, and Ive decided to finally orginize my thoughts. Be nice =) I wrote this in about two hours, and a big thanks to anyone who reads all the way through and shares their honest fealings.



Our capitalistic, consumerist government is destroying the world. The government spawns many a thing, and those things lead to the extremely large gap between rich and poor. The government is the cause for the media, globalization, industrialization, and education. These things, in their own separate way, created the individual. This individual has developed a need to want. This need of ours is being satisfied in the most harmful of ways, through globalization and industrialization. Hence we are trapped within this paradox of needing to want, and having no choice but to further our imperialistic globalization and industrialization.
The government has directly spawned four of the six things that is destroying our world. Two of the main being globalization and industrialization. Industrialization is the fuel for globalization. Our government reigns imperialism by causing the need for cheep goods. Our industries go over to other countries to industrialize them. We need these goods, so we go over to third world countries (or what we have made into third world countries) and weaned them off of their lifestyle and asked them instead to make us goods for virtually no money. These people can barely, if at all, even function in their own society. They are suffering by making our useless things that we have been thought to need.
One other direct spawn from the government is the media. This media has created the individual that needs to want. The medias every step is not controlled by this government, but it does serve the governments purpose of consumerism. The constant mental barrages brought down by commercials and advertisements have implemented this manufactured need of ours.
One last direct spawn is the school system. The school system is a type of brainwash set in place in order to keep us from rebelling against the system. It unconsciously probes our minds into thinking that the point in life is to go to collage, and get the million dollar job. This is exactly what the government wants us to do, make as much money as possible so that they can live long and prosper. Hence we are stuck in a second paradox. We are trapped in a cycle of brainwash, the government has made it our goal in life to further the government. The crazy thing about this situation is that we are virtually powerless against the monster brainwasher that is the government.
All of these problems lead up to one giant evil, the gap between rich and poor. This gap is what is destroying the world. The United States of America as a people, use up ¼ of the worlds recourses, yet make up a mere 1/20 of the worlds population. The richest 20% of humanity consumes 86% of all goods and services used, while the poorest fifth consumes just 1.3%. (Consumption of Recourses, Day of 6 Billion: October 12 - Consumption & Resources) If we all live the way the richest 20% of the world, we would be emitting enough pollution to destroy 4 separate Earths. And on the other hand, if we all lived like the poorest 20%, we could have at least 100 times our population and still create the same amount of pollution. The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32 times as much as the other 5.5 billion people.
Oil, gas, and coal global usage have also at least doubled in the last 40 years. (Image:World Energy consumption.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, chart on World Energy usage) If the rich don’t break their tread, and don’t stop using almost 90% of the worlds recourses, then our recourse usage will continue to increase exponentially. If this happens, our world will no longer to be able to sustain itself, and collapse under the strain of pollution.
Now that we’ve established the problems, that only leaves the solutions. I have come to but one solution, revolution.
Revolution has almost worked in the 60’s with the Lennonest movement. If it has almost worked in the past, then it can work in the future. We need to use the evils in power in order to gain the necessary number of minds for a revolution. Namely the media, Lennon used his music in order to spread his message. Today its not that easy, people today are immensely brainwashed by the forces at power. I believe however if we all, likeminded people, meet and discuss, we can overcome this evil. We have to organize, and find more people who think the same way. These people will continue to find others, and new people will find more people. This happens until we have enough people to revolt.
We would revolt against the government, consumerism, imperialism. The downfall of the government would end all of the other evils mentioned, because the government is the driving force behind all of them. Without the government there could be no more schools, simply because there would be no money for them. If we also revolt against consumerism, the media wouldn’t fall, but it would not focus all if its energy onto manufacturing the need for want. The destruction of this need would also directly end globalization and industrialization. This end would also diminish the gap between rich and poor. We would no longer be in foreign countries, exploiting their recourses. This would allow them to regain control over their lands, and use their own natural recourses. The government is going to cause the end of the world, and we need to stop it.

-Nick Hofstra