We're experiencing some sort of late Indian summer over here. Better late than never, I guess. At least we get to see some sunshine before the summer months are truly gone, replaced by more darkness, gloom and wintry weather.
Perhaps 'revolution' will end up coming from so-called emerging countries as economies like to call the very places the 'developed' ones used to exploit - and still do, obviously. 'Revolution' in the sense that they might get so fed up with the rampant corruption and polarised world we live in, where one half has too much while the other has nothing, that they'll simply bring it about in some way, and like wildfire it will trigger it everywhere else. Or something.
The idea occurred to me while talking to my boss about a conference he went to not so long ago. That conference was full of smart black ties - bankers. As various people took to the stage to pat one another on the back, one speaker suddenly began to explain in detail why the world was doomed exactly because of them. My boss described how everyone in the room slowly turned awkward and irritated by that speaker - it just wasn't something they expected. They didn't expect someone to go on stage and start telling them how bad they were for the world. The guy originally came from a far east country and had spent many years in the business.
Perhaps hope rests with people who come from emerging countries because over there corruption is literally in everyone's face. It's impossible not to see. People in rags live in a shack next to mansions with 5 BMWs. There's no politically correct system that pretends that those who have nothing will get anything - ever. There's no so-called freedom of expression. People who have nothing have no rights and don't exist in the world, they don't really have a voice at all and there is no fabricated illusion to make them believe otherwise as there is over here.
Perhaps the very fact that these people are living with corruption and rotten ways staring them straight in the face will allow for them to take action at some point. Whatever this means, no matter how dreadful change in a deeply corrupted world system entails...
By contrast, the 'developed' world is immersed so much in illusions and fake ideologies that make people believe things that don't actually exist in reality that it's hard to see any reaction come out of people. Most are just too immersed in their little bubble, and they end up only caring about preserving whatever comfort they can get.
Trying to understand why governments and nations in general are so prone to corruption, greed and the inclination for either war or exploitation, I sort of realised that when one looks at a country as a whole, all they're really looking at is the exacerbated version of a mere individual's behaviour. In other words, governments, corporations and the likes are nothing more but a bigger representation of a set of behaviours that could be observed in a single human being.
That leads me to think that to even hope that the 'world' could ever be peaceful or harmonised, is an illusion. For that to happen, you'd need to see human beings capable of doing just that on an individual level, and since the majority cannot, there can never be any form of organisation that would.
Governments and corporations at large reflect themselves on the people, but in essence these governments and corporations at large are made up of people, which leads us to some sort of funny totology, I guess.
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