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Life in the Anthropocene
A few days ago, on my way to buy a few fruits, whipped cream, and sugar-free yogurt, as I walked inside the store I could not help but notice a young girl in her twenties. She was sitting right by the entrance in the downpour of a proper dog rain that whipped us all with a free shower.
Begging for petty handouts from those that passed her by.
Sadly I had nothing to give her since like most people today, I had no cash on me, but as I paid for my fruit I made sure to get some good ol fashioned printed money in return and so on my way out again, I gave her what I now had on me.
But this article of mine is not about me giving her money.
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Shadow Walkers by Netherbird
When the silence speaks through the void, In the heart of the wild city.
while it felt good to be able to help her even in that abysmal and far too lacking way in that given moment. I could not avoid observing all the countless, never-ending rows of people walking in and out of that store without seeing her.
People walking in and out of that store with overstuffed bags, people all being overstuffed themselves.
People with money and too much food and all of them entirely blind to that young girl.
Unseeing hearts and closed off minds turned on, and while I stood there no one else gave her anything.
In its own obscure way that little slice of time served as a pretty good view of our global modern world with too many having too much and so many having far too little. And no I do not care why she was begging for money.
Disability, mental health issues, unemployed, a gypsy, was she living on welfare that isn't nearly enough for anyone, was she a homeless and entirely left without an income. Or was she sitting there for any of the other reasons in life that could have pushed her to sit there.
My reflection is, does it even matter?
Is not reality that no one with a joyful and fulfilling, healthy life would ever willingly spend hours in the rain begging for money outside a warm comfy store.
And if that is basic reality (which it is).
We all have to reflect on the slightly and sadly decently sized pool of people in the world that does not see the human casualties and abandoned people as wrong.
No, I am not really talking about the ones that did not see her.
That´s sad enough, but even more so is the amount of people that raise their voices and actions to make unemployed people, starving and homeless, sick and beggars something even worse to be.
The ones that claim to be good people, caring people, well behaved, loving, nursing, religious and destined for heaven and well-paid jobs people. The ones that claim to be the better.
The very same people that enjoy kicking downstairs, lowering welfare for the ones that needs help the most, the ones that are thinking it is okay to beat up beggars and homeless souls.
The ones that think they are not suffering enough in their thinly veiled shelters beneath stairs and grottos.
I am talking about the ones that think that they should be chased off or thrown in jail for being poor. The far too many, that somehow thinks that unemployed and sick should be punished even more, the ones that feel that underpaid workers should suffer more.
Those soulless people, the heartless, the bullies, the overpaid, mentally and emotionally ill people that think others should suffer for no reason at all.
No, I am not talking about you.
Because I am sure that no matter how you do life you would never kick downstairs.
You are one of the many that would like to see a healthy and fulfilling, equal world for every human being.
I am however talking about the selfish bullies.
The ones that have somehow replaced the evil of yesterday, the ones that are today's KKK, nazis and slave owners.
They would most likely never associate themselves with such horrible labels of evil. And they would most likely never even dream of agreeing with yesterday's inhuman views. But that does not change that they are todays confederate soldiers, which for obscure reasons are proudly marching to preserve inequality and injustice, they are today's over privileged and selfish people that know better, yet, for some reason they feel that they deserve more than others.
They are the ones we should outlaw.
The ones that should be taxed more.
They are the blemish on our civilized world. They are the anchor that slows progress towards a better and healthier world.
They are today's wrong, just like slave owners and nazis where yesterday's wrong.
Another reflection I had was that it certainly is time for all developed nations to tax sugar and unhealthy food through the roof.
Allow people that enjoy eating shit to do so. But tax it through the roof and use the proceedings of that unhealthy food to subsidize healthy food and healthy, sustainable farming and energy production, benefiting all of humanity in the end, while still allowing unhealthy people to choose unhealthy food. And all the savings in health care, all the savings in life´s and bodies for people and society, use that to increase well fare, to provide better free health care to people with far too little income.
Provide housing and free sustainable energy for every person lacking enough money to pay for it.
But of course, far too many in that pool of people that for unknown reasons never allowed themselves to see her, they would never want that.
For them making a better and healthier society is not at all a good thing for some crazy disturbed reason.
A well, as I said, they are today's wrong.
They are the ones lacking empathy, and as such, the represent the ones not being truly whole, thriving, healthy, wonderful human beings.
They are the ones that in the end need help too, help to become better and healthier human beings that contribute towards a better and healthier world of us all, for they are blind and damaged and ill.
A silly poem
[ "When the silence speaks"
by
Mike Koontz ]
When the silence speaks through the void, In the heart of the forest
Where we once met
A creek still lingers, the firm entrenches of winter it fights.
As the freezing cold claws it´s way towards it´s core
Soon
A silent slumber, it once again, dreams, in the still depths,
life inside waits to be warmed again, nursed and re
birthed in the creaking
of ice that breaks
"The Lost World of Planet Earth"
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