Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing. And my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can knock me out for 15 hours and more. I'm sorry. This has been a wretchedly drawn out several days for me.That's the trouble with us old folks. We get - you know - old.
So let's pick up the pace to the modern day and our determination (some of us) to conquer the world. A useful starting point is the British Empire of the 1700s and more.
This was the empire of a Britain that was controlled by the British aristocracy, the wealthy. There was no place in there for common people. These were held in contempt by the aristocracy. No. All the power (and it's profits) were held by a tiny aristocracy. The rest of the British lived in poverty and filth. Oh, they could serve in the army or the navy. But only at the lowest levels. and with the lowest pay. (On naval ships, the women of the poor commonly served on the gun decks, and commonly produced children who would serve on them, too. Thus the expression 'Son of a gun.' And many a son of a gun would die down on the gun decks.
Britain owed nothing to it's lower classes, If they served they then became less effective, They were simply dumped into the streets of the nearest port, there to die of poverty and disease.
Winston Churchill was a typical product of that class contempt for the poor. Check his political records. You'll find he served only the rich. That's why the British voters turned against him near the end of World War Two.
But Churchill and his like served the wealthy in grand style. They murdered over 400 million people all over the world to steal their resources, to force them into cheap labour, to starve them........ And, not suprisingly, British (and French settlers of the higher sort in the Americas, and Latin as Latin Americans followed their leaders - as their descendents still do.
In this they were following a system going back among humans for uncounted thousands of years. Unlike other animals. humans were created so that some were attuned to enslaving other humans. No other animal treats it's fellow animaals in that way. Others might fight other in quarrels. But these fights are usually short term. Not so among humans. Dominant humans permantently abuse and even kill their own kind.
Thus the brutality of the British arisitocracy and it's abuse of the English people. Thus the British request for Canada to join the British war against the Dutch colony of South Africa. And the reason for it?
The Dutch (Boers) had taken control of South Africa becuase it had massive gold fields. The Dutch (almost all Christians) wanted to steal that gold. But, about 1900, the the British invaded to steal that gold. In short, The wealthy British wanted to steal that gold for wealthy British. And so a war happened to please wealthy Brish and displease wealthy Dutch.
Curiously, the British army felt it needed Canadian help.
Actually, it didn't. So why demand Canadian help? Well it really did need Canadian help for a future war.
That was to set a precedent so that in future Canada would be required to fight British wars in general. European corporations in Britain, France, Germany, were rapidly expanding to modernize for wars with each other. So the British wanted a precedent for Canada (and the rest of the empire) to fight British wars.
What did that war have to do with Canada? Nothing. In fact, the nearby U.S. wouldn't join in the war until very late in the game.
That was world war one in which Canadians fought and died so that Britain, France, Germany, etc. could fight wars that had nothing to do with Canada. But it was highly profitable for war industries on all sides.
At the end of that war all sides agreed not to blame anyone for the war - largely because they had all fought the war for the same reason - to protect their rising industries. But it took Britain and France a very short time to demand that Germany be punished Their purpose of course was to destroy German competition. So they imposed conditions so severe that Germany fell into deep poverty. This, in the eyes of British and French would destroy German industrial competion leaving Germany a land of poverty - while British and French capitalists were free to run wild. And that is what opened to a door to a Germany led by a sort of Donald Trump racist who ralled Germans by hatred of Jews. (Just like Americans and sometimes Canadians) fight North Koreans and Afghanis and anybody in the middle East) - and will be called on to fight Chinese and anybody else the U.S. tells them to fight.
And who has benefitted from all this?
In the U.S., American incomes seemed to remain steady in the post war years. In fact, they dropped steadily in purchasing power. At the same time, Americans got dramatically poorer, a poverty far worsened by a pandemic attack.
This was an attack that called for government help. But the only government help was to billionaires who used the money to fight even more wars and plunder even poorer countries.
Americans have suffered terribly. But American billionaires are doing well, with the highest profits in history. Indeed, billionaires are the only people making profits in the U.S., most of them from making weapons and killing people of impoverished countries.
In fact, the super-rich have been making the biggest profits in history from our wars - while millions of Americans sleep on the streets at night, and go hungry during the day. As American die of hunger and exposure, Billionaires, especially in the U.S., have been making huge profits.
And that, in a nutshell, is the history of the world. And if we don't control this in this century, we are dead meat. As our world mechanizes, the super rich need fewer and fewer of us. As it is, the U.S. with it's massive unemployment, can still produce the most weaponry in the world. Indeed, they need a smaller population, not a larger one.
So far as I know, there is no other animal that acts like this. Oh, some will flare up for a moment of anger. And they will kill each other to eat. But it is only humans which will organize wars against each other, which will mass murder, which will kill for power. Or, put in blunter terms, it is only humans who are evil, And, yes, our business leaders throughout history have been evil and ruthless and murderous. And we are within reach of the worst of their evil.
This is an evil which one finds in no other animal - and very rarely in male people. Jesus in no way represented such evil. And that, alas, may explain why His churches have, for two thousand years, rarely represented His values. (Check history. The European wars of the twentieth century were wars of Christians against Christians - and had been for 2,000 years.)
I'm not trying to get religious with you. I am saying we either bring our super rich under control or they bring us into total destruction. And that is the reality about a Bill Gates or an Irving.
Oh, for members of the Canadian Legion, explain to us why it has been necessary for Canadians to kill people in Korea, Afghanistan, Haiti, and more to come....?
Is it so the Irvings and Gates of this world will like you?
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