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People before politics. People before money

The spirit of people can be contained but not controlled. Life will always give rise to acts of bravery and cowardice, of creativity and bullying oppression. That’s human nature, but the creative will always be greater than the craven and compassion greater and braver than the bully.

Putting politics before people is at best paternalistic and at worst despotic and money, a mere inert token of exchange, should never gain ascendency over people through the actions of greedy people who force others into servitude for profit. Money is made to serve the needs of life, it is only in the minds of greedy fools that people are required to slavishly serve money.

People are a natural expression of natures abundance and diversity, certainly nature consults nothing and no one in its creation of abundant life. Quite simply, human kind have it all bass ackwards. Attempting to dominate and exploit nature, which is the giver and sustainer of life, is too ridiculous to even contemplate in sensible minds. Those who pursue such aims are fools, hastening theirs and others destruction for short term gain.

Human kind have come this far through co-operation not competition. If we are to have a future we need to throw out this silly idea of endless competition, which serves the markets but not people. The idea of the self made man is a narcissistic vanity of our times and is an expression of monumental ingratitude to all that gave rise to him and sustained him throughout his life. Anyone who makes such a claim is just silly.

The very grand diversity of human existence requires the artist as much as the tool fitter, the cleaner as much as the ships captain. Those with greater and lesser abilities are of equal importance and worth and each should be encouraged to find a niche for their abilities, whatever that may be and whatever their ambition or lack of it. 

Work should never be defined by a brass farthing. Without the labour of mothers, not a child would be born, yet no street vendor has ever cried, ‘Five bob a birth, five bob for a birth. Come and get it!’ It’s too ridiculous to value work through money, it’s a mirage we’ve been sold, even down to selling our labour to pay for someone to mind our kids so that we can labour at a lesser job than nurturing the lives we’ve chosen to bring into the world only to abandon their care to another for brass. Of course some will choose to do that, for a dream or ambition, but it should never be demanded, as now.

It’s time for a rethink, more of the same is neither viable or desirable. Quite simply, we can’t go on like this. We need a revolution and that revolution has to happen in us, people, in our minds and once we get it, we can do something about it, each and every one of us.

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