Wars Amongst the Poor – the Right Question, 2

Listing here examples of the wars amongst the poor we live surrounded by would be not only useless but even counter−productive: since there are infinite forms and infinite cases of them, we would end up compiling a redundant encyclopaedia of things you already know, thus wasting our precious energy. So I’ll leave to you this task of detecting such forms and cases of wars amongst the poor, and once spotted, tracing them back to what I discuss here.

As an example, imagine you were born in an extermination camp: all you knew would be a degraded world of desperate individuals, some trampling beastly on their fellows, some heroically bending over backwards to come to their aid, all of them hopelessly wrestling with a bottomless scarcity of wherewithal that permeated the whole existence and drained each and every drop of blood and oxygen out of every nook and cranny of anyone’s life; born and grown up in hell, starving and death as just the way it was. Then one day you stumble upon the electrified fence, and through it you see how every supply line and every production potential is first monopolised and then strangled from the outside; when the flow confined through those huge valves is further curtailed, in due course more and more wars amongst the poor will unleash into every corner of the extermination camp to compete for the less and less remaining drops. Endless rivulets seemingly unrelated and unattributable up until the moment new information reveals them to be not so unrelated and unattributable.

“Which poor has priority in a war amongst the poor?”, “Who is entitled to a little more and who to a little less of the few crumbles we’ve got to share – or perhaps of the few bones we’re forced to compete for?”, “How to scrape out a little more of the hopelessly scarce aid and charity?”, “Who will lose more and who will lose less?” are but various forms of the wrong question.