Wars Amongst the Poor – the Right Question, 3

Heard a joke once: How do you tell when a politician’s lying? His (or her) lips are moving. Then what is the truth? Obviously the real answer to crises lies behind the right questions.

The right question – the obvious real question – is, “Why is there not enough for all?”, “Why is there a war amongst the poor – why is there need for aid and charity – and why do conflicts appear irreconcilable – in the first place?”

This question begins like a whisper, but then you begin to look around at the kind of world surrounding us: are we starving in a desert? So part of the right question is asking yourself: how come that people starve in a world overflowing with a wealth of all the resources one may need, that just crave to be used? So what is missing, exactly? What, exactly, is not there where it ought to be? And as you linger on this question, strangely enough its whisper keeps on getting louder and sounding more and more like thunder.

What’s this crisis, then? It’s the crisis, we are told. The why of the crisis is the crisis. I mean, you’re not willing to take the question itself as a valid answer, are you?

The first rule of thumb to adopt is, whenever and wherever there is a war amongst the poor, as soon as you realise it is a war amongst the poor, stop wasting time and energy lining up with any side of it against any other side of it and start investigating whose hands you would play into if you did line up naively with someone against someone else: who is ensuring there isn’t enough for all?

The infinite does exist: it’s the wars amongst the poor, the wars amongst the unaware, the wars amongst the irrational, unless and until they detect and solve the hidden real third parties fomenting them.