Money...

[island]

Hello everybody,
this is my first, hopefully first of many, post.

Lately i have been thinking allot of the world and why things are like they are and how almost everything bad always comes from religion or money.
The more i think about it, more sure i get that we would be better off without it.
I believe we have the technic to be able to live freely without having to pay for everything.

I read somewhere that 97% of the planets wealth is owned by only 3% of the population! That is just so much wrong with that but only shows how very few people can control the rest. Decide who should be hungry and who shouldn't.
I have been getting a feeling recently that governments are intensionally keeping people down, here in Iceland after the banking krises the government has only helped the rich but the public is still loosing everything and nobody does anything, well if we look closer we see that all the companies that gain from the banking krises are all owned by family or friends of those in charge so by keeping the public down the richer get richer, just one example of hundreds.
When we look at history there has always been someone trying to take charge of something, controlling others, going to war for control, everything goes around controlling the population i even think the bible was written by men to control people.
Well i don't want to be controlled anymore, i want to be able to enjoy my nature, my food and home without having to be rich!
The technic is there, we don't need oil or coals, recyclable energy has been used in Iceland for decades the problem is that everything goes around money so the energy is sold but could be free if the technic would be used to its fullest.
It is interesting to think that the "modern" man is around 50.000 years old but only in the last thousand years or so we have managed to almost destroy our planet and for what? Money? Religion? Control?

I could probably write pages about this and my opinion on it but ill let this do ;)
Would be nice to hear the opinion of others on this topic.

[Kalamos]

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[GreenGuy]

Thanks for your post, island! And welcome to Avalon - I'm a new member myself. The points you bring up are ones that many others have pondered. The question is, how can we move in the direction of a society that so many people yearn for? Certainly it isn't possible without wresting control away from the parasites who hold all the wealth. Many of us believe that the biggest problem we face is allocation of resources. How can this be made more equitable?

The wealthy few are NOT going to have a change of heart and suddenly begin to share. Altruism is as foreign to them as speaking French to a frog (little humor there). If we accept that violent revolution is old-paradigm and plays into their hands, we must find nonviolent ways to force change. One of the simplest and best ways is through economic boycott - but most people still shop at MalWart, still eat at McDonalds, still try to save a buck by not supporting local entrepreneurs.

Allocation of resources to stave off hunger and disease, and provide every person with an acceptable standard of living, would surely require a world body of legislation and enforcement. And yet globalism is perceived as an ultimate evil which will turn earth into a prison planet.

The sovereignty of nations creates a crazy-quilt of legislation, philosophies, degrees of enlightenment and justice, and abuses. What could ever happen to bring all these governments and peoples to the table of egalitarianism?

These are just a few of the problems that will have to be resolved before anything resembling universal justice and tolerance can be achieved. The biggest obstacle in my view is the fact that most of us are selfish. We want "someone else" to give up what they have but we don't wish to sacrifice what we have.

What are your thoughts?

[OMG]

...don't need it, don't want it, wish it would go away...

...along with ANY form exchange that is not based on love.