Lost time
Losing time
Every day something does not get done
Pressure is relentless.
More and more tasks.
Never seem to have much time, just work
For many this is the pattern of their working days.
Run, run, run, from morning to night
Yet for others no reason to get out of bed
Tried getting a job, just none around
Month after month no job, no hope of getting one either.
So many young people out of work.
Do you notice something here?
For those in work there is endless pressure
Longer hours
Modest pay for most
For the others out of work
Endless stress
Endless stress of not knowing how to pay the bills or rent
All this from a culture that unthinkingly extols the virtues of growth
Endless growth that is
The only thought from politicians is how to get the country growing again
All countries yabber on about the need to get back to growth, increase growth.
Wait a minute.
Please notice how the world is a finite environment
Notice how not all the car manufacturers can 'win' when there are millions too many cars being produced worldwide.
And too many tvs, dvds, white goods, computers, watches
And clothes, furniture, household goods
And pretty much anything else
Someone must 'lose'
Not all can 'grow'
Not a thought about the obvious conflict between technological innovations that replace and remove jobs and the need for creating more jobs.
A world going mad
Endless growth for all, technology relentlessly removing jobs everywhere.
No one prepared to say that the Emperor is naked
It does not work any longer
A world of lies
All cannot grow
Does no one see any other options to the endless growth mantra?
So let's start at the beginning and ask just what are we trying to do?
What is life for?
What is it about?
Do we need growth?
Is there no other way?
Do we want lives spent running ever faster to make ends meet?
To just survive
Is this what life has to be?
Do we want increasing number of humans thrown on the scrap heap?
More and more young people with no jobs and little prospect of getting one
No we do not
We do not want this
Yet our politicians are beholden to special interest groups that only want profit = growth
They cannot and will not look at things in the way the electorate does.
They will lead us to destruction because this is inevitable under the present system
It is broke
Bankrupt
Finished
Sure they might fix it for a while however they are just ensuring that the final meltdown will be more violent.
And this is why we need to get involved because 'they' will only ever protect their own short term selfish interests
Modern politics do not work
Let me rephrase that they only work to produce ever more corruption and lies.
Society does not work as it could or should
Make your own choices while you can
Make your voice heard
This life is not a dress rehearsal it is all that you have
Live it now and make your contribution
And yes individual humans can make a difference
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