What are we talking about?
What are we talking about?
In order to understand thoroughly, let’s keep it simple.
There’s a small island, where we are few; everyone produces something useful and we exchange it with barter.
Barter has limits, though: yesterday I didn’t catch any fish, today you don’t want to eat potatoes, and so on, therefore we separate the two parts of barter by noting down the incomplete exchanges: I owe you a fish, you owe him a potato.
Then the owner of the beach of shells proposes we use his shells. We accept.
And in exchange for the shells we give him fishes and potatoes…
Fishes and potatoes are hard work to us, shells cost the beach owner nothing.
No one comes to wonder, “why on earth he alone must have this privilege?”
But that’s not all: in a race where only one rides a bike and all the others run on foot, who wins?
At every turn, the beach owner can offer more: shells cost nothing to him.
How does it end? Simple: sooner or later the beach owner takes possession of everything. And of everyone.
But that’s still not all: so far the beach owner limited himself to give us shells in exchange for fishes and potatoes; now he begins to lend them to us at interest.
No one comes to wonder, “if we must return more shells than we received to the only one who has the privilege to put them into circulation, from whom are we going to get the extra ones?”
How does it end? Exactly as before: the beach owner takes possession of everything and everyone. Only, it happens more quickly and more inexorably.
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But that too is still not all: shells are like blood carrying oxygen, to be healthy they must be abundant.
On the contrary, the beach owner turns off the tap of shells, and begins to strangle us.
What do we do when we gasp for air? We sell out what is more precious to us: our boat, our land, our home and our future. For a crust of bread.
Guess to whom?
And no one comes to wonder, “where does this burning smell come from?”
How does it end? Exactly as before: even more quickly and more inexorably.
If you have a parasite, you’re always hungry while you keep on losing weight. And what little remains is not enough for all.
How does it end? We rip each other apart.
And no one thinks to all turn together to the one that puts us against each other: the parasite.
So?
If we accept that shells have purchasing power like fishes and potatoes, then we must ask ourselves the fundamental question, and we must give ourselves an answer:
Who is the legitimate owner of the purchasing power of shells?
The reason is not just that it is only fair that things belong to their legitimate owner.
There is another reason as well, equally important if not even more:
What happens when we allow a thief to steal that purchasing power?
It happens that sooner or later the thief takes possession of everything. And of everyone.
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Being someone’s property means being slaves.
Hence, we’re talking about freedom or slavery.
That’s what we’re talking about.
What does it matter? This is what is happening everywhere:
the thief, with the stolen purchasing power, is buying out the world.
But even that is still not all.
People are of three kinds: wise, stupid, evil. You see it in what others are to them.
Wise people help others to live, too.
Stupid people don’t care about others and anything.
Evil people betray to keep others from living.
On the one hand, a wise person would never dream of stealing the world, and only dreams of others being well, which is quite different from owning them.
On the other hand, a person dedicated to stealing the world is not just a thief, he’s also evil; and he is not content with stealing it because the real reason why he’s stealing it is keeping others from living.
The proof is that if purchasing power were his ultimate aim, once obtained he would be appeased; and instead it is just a means, because he is using it to destroy others.
Destroying others means reducing them to nothing: physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Turning them into slave zombies and into ashes to ashes is not helping them; whoever thinks so is socially ill.
Hence, we’re talking about life or death.
That’s what we’re talking about.
What does it matter? This is what is happening everywhere:
the thief is not only stealing our world; he is also destroying us.
It is not difficult to verify. It is enough to observe knowing what to look for.
And someone wisely pointed out: “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”