Liberation through Moderation
Many years before the final end, the economic powers that held the most influence, from a material perspective, belonged to what was termed the Eastern-Westernised developed world. They invented this classification themselves. It meant that they had acquired more useless material objects than people in other groups categorised as the third world, later to be called the developing world.
This change in terminology was meant to suggest that one day the developing world would grow economically to have as many useless objects as the others who already dominated the global economy.
This in fact was a false idea, because the Law of Maoist-Capitalism, which was the dominant system for the majority of humans, was based on the accumulation of as many useless objects as possible. It was also based on what I will now term the system of greed and possession, which required specific groups to always feel they had more objects than other less fortunate groups.
Also in the Maoist-Capitalist system, to accumulate objects required their production to be created in countries that had much less, so it was to the advantage of the developed world to have factories in places that accepted the least amount of payment and the least amount of health and safety requirements. The production of objects in these poorer countries meant that the local inhabitants were often exploited in many ways including the denial of certain human rights.
The African continent was the last place on Earth that was denied any kind of equal development. This continent, which was vast, had no more than five democratically elected leaders at any time in the last two hundred years of earth’s history. The remaining countries on this continent continually succumbed to tribal warfare among clans, economic ruin by dictators that ruled for their entire lives, or to natural disasters such as droughts and famine.
The Maoist-Capitalist countries developed the “the pact of the silent,” whereby they secretly agreed to keep Africa in perpetual poverty and chaos, allowing their inhabitants to believe their condition would one day improve by providing them with false hope of one day having better conditions. They were offered token gestures of small amounts of aid, while deliberately keeping them desperate and hungry with limited useless products, which guaranteed a readily enthusiastic workforce that was also expendable.
In this part of the story, Maya is writing down her thoughts which can also be heard by the Buddhist monk during his meditations. He will shortly be embarking on his mission to find her.
In her writings, she reflects on a conversation she had with Luke, one of the last survivors who escaped the planet called Earth before its destruction.
The story of the last years of Earth’s story revolves around a combined economic power made up of China and what remained of the Western powers.
China is the generator of most of the worlds production of material products.
Maya refers to these products with the one sweeping title, ‘useless products’ This term was used by Luke for which he meant the mass accumulation of material objects which became an infection that led to selfishness and greed.
Over consumption in its many forms becomes addiction if not regulated. Self regulation is hard to monitor especially while being bombarded constantly by material products which always promise a better life. The companies who produce these products are all to aware that the faster they create updated versions, the hungry consumers who are now addicts and under the control of the companies, will purchase them to feed their craving emptiness.
The developing countries are the new markets undergoing the transition to material addiction.
In these countries, the companies are able to produce the products assembled by workers who have very little in terms of material wealth. Having their chemical and high tech zones in these countries, the companies are able to short cut costly production costs in their own countries while creating in the workers the hunger for the products they are producing.
In the short term, all looks well economically and yes, oneday they may well achieve financial gain, this is well and good on one hand if it means access to better schools, health care systems, clean water and more nutritious food.
When we look at our ‘developed’ countries, can we honestly say that education is of a high level? Do we have access to cheap and affordable health care? Is our food that contains chemicals, modified genetics and saturated fats safer than food from the past?
Have we grown closer together as societies, have we become stronger families, have we gained a better understanding of our spiritual selves or have our material pressures from sustaining what we have materially while wanting to accumulate more taken us further away from each other?
The global commercial and economic systems are now due for revision and modification to allow for a more equal playing field for all Earth’s inhabitants. The idea of the limitless material consumer has taken its toll on the human spirit and the natural environment.
The end price we all pay for this current system, is a loss of identity, family, cultural identity and spiritual awareness.
We are all being groomed by the companies, to live a certain lifestyle that they dictate. Eventually our idea of individuality will be one that has been sold to us from a range on offer created by corporations.
Once again, it comes down to a balanced perspective; a meeting place where all minds, all cultures, all religions etc can meet. The middle path is the only option. A way needs to be found where having enough becomes measurable and equal.
Extremism has always failed. Extremism in all its ugly guises, those being for example, political or religious have never worked. The world tried the poles of Communism on on side and extreme Capitalism on the other. Capitalism as we can see now is beginning to crumble. The gradual disintegration of the current Empire is dissolving. It’s now time to start to re-evaluate where we are heading.
It cant be left to the politicians who have proven themselves to be puppets of the corporations who oil their wheels or to the dictators who attempt to crush the human soul.
I would have liked the character of Maya to have been telling the reader a different story but from our current position in time, her writing may echo elements of our future reality.
This change in terminology was meant to suggest that one day the developing world would grow economically to have as many useless objects as the others who already dominated the global economy.
This in fact was a false idea, because the Law of Maoist-Capitalism, which was the dominant system for the majority of humans, was based on the accumulation of as many useless objects as possible. It was also based on what I will now term the system of greed and possession, which required specific groups to always feel they had more objects than other less fortunate groups.
Also in the Maoist-Capitalist system, to accumulate objects required their production to be created in countries that had much less, so it was to the advantage of the developed world to have factories in places that accepted the least amount of payment and the least amount of health and safety requirements. The production of objects in these poorer countries meant that the local inhabitants were often exploited in many ways including the denial of certain human rights.
The African continent was the last place on Earth that was denied any kind of equal development. This continent, which was vast, had no more than five democratically elected leaders at any time in the last two hundred years of earth’s history. The remaining countries on this continent continually succumbed to tribal warfare among clans, economic ruin by dictators that ruled for their entire lives, or to natural disasters such as droughts and famine.
The Maoist-Capitalist countries developed the “the pact of the silent,” whereby they secretly agreed to keep Africa in perpetual poverty and chaos, allowing their inhabitants to believe their condition would one day improve by providing them with false hope of one day having better conditions. They were offered token gestures of small amounts of aid, while deliberately keeping them desperate and hungry with limited useless products, which guaranteed a readily enthusiastic workforce that was also expendable.
In this part of the story, Maya is writing down her thoughts which can also be heard by the Buddhist monk during his meditations. He will shortly be embarking on his mission to find her.
In her writings, she reflects on a conversation she had with Luke, one of the last survivors who escaped the planet called Earth before its destruction.
The story of the last years of Earth’s story revolves around a combined economic power made up of China and what remained of the Western powers.
China is the generator of most of the worlds production of material products.
Maya refers to these products with the one sweeping title, ‘useless products’ This term was used by Luke for which he meant the mass accumulation of material objects which became an infection that led to selfishness and greed.
Over consumption in its many forms becomes addiction if not regulated. Self regulation is hard to monitor especially while being bombarded constantly by material products which always promise a better life. The companies who produce these products are all to aware that the faster they create updated versions, the hungry consumers who are now addicts and under the control of the companies, will purchase them to feed their craving emptiness.
The developing countries are the new markets undergoing the transition to material addiction.
In these countries, the companies are able to produce the products assembled by workers who have very little in terms of material wealth. Having their chemical and high tech zones in these countries, the companies are able to short cut costly production costs in their own countries while creating in the workers the hunger for the products they are producing.
In the short term, all looks well economically and yes, oneday they may well achieve financial gain, this is well and good on one hand if it means access to better schools, health care systems, clean water and more nutritious food.
When we look at our ‘developed’ countries, can we honestly say that education is of a high level? Do we have access to cheap and affordable health care? Is our food that contains chemicals, modified genetics and saturated fats safer than food from the past?
Have we grown closer together as societies, have we become stronger families, have we gained a better understanding of our spiritual selves or have our material pressures from sustaining what we have materially while wanting to accumulate more taken us further away from each other?
The global commercial and economic systems are now due for revision and modification to allow for a more equal playing field for all Earth’s inhabitants. The idea of the limitless material consumer has taken its toll on the human spirit and the natural environment.
The end price we all pay for this current system, is a loss of identity, family, cultural identity and spiritual awareness.
We are all being groomed by the companies, to live a certain lifestyle that they dictate. Eventually our idea of individuality will be one that has been sold to us from a range on offer created by corporations.
Once again, it comes down to a balanced perspective; a meeting place where all minds, all cultures, all religions etc can meet. The middle path is the only option. A way needs to be found where having enough becomes measurable and equal.
Extremism has always failed. Extremism in all its ugly guises, those being for example, political or religious have never worked. The world tried the poles of Communism on on side and extreme Capitalism on the other. Capitalism as we can see now is beginning to crumble. The gradual disintegration of the current Empire is dissolving. It’s now time to start to re-evaluate where we are heading.
It cant be left to the politicians who have proven themselves to be puppets of the corporations who oil their wheels or to the dictators who attempt to crush the human soul.
I would have liked the character of Maya to have been telling the reader a different story but from our current position in time, her writing may echo elements of our future reality.
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