Heartfelt Essay

Two recommended movies to see:

1) Lords of War, starring Nicolas Cage; and
2) The Constant Gardener.

The first deals primarily with the Military Industrial Complex and one sole arms dealer in the World.
The latter, corruption of government and their cover ups involving pharmaceutical nightmares in Africa.

Both deal with people getting rich off of killing fellow human beings.

Now, though these are "Hollywood" stories, glamorizations fit for the large screen, to entertain us and make money themselves,
their stories are based in realities that most of us never see, and for the small part they play in educating an unwitting populace I am eternally grateful.

The majority of us live our lives from day to day, enjoying our friends and family,
our prosperity, the ease in our lives, while never knowing what the world at large suffers.
We work our jobs, never seeing our own contributions to the ever growing monster.
We do not take these actions directly. We are not the ones that pull the trigger, or make the decision that will end another's life.
And we are systematically trained from an early age to look the other way, while someone else plays the hitman for us.

Our government is completely corrupted, through and through, with almost no hope of salvation as far as I can see.
Decades of officials have been bought and sold to the highest corporate "fiat" dollar.
We have become a "service economy" outbuying products from almost every country out there, with fake monopoly money.
And then we sell those poor countries guns and drugs that kill them, in the name of "testing" and self-preservation.
All to earn a buck. Slavery in America was abolished in 1862, but we are all still very much slave masters in this World.

Why is our society so incredibly obsessed with money?
Money has become the new religion for America, radical capitalistic cannibalism at its finest.
Why do I say money is our religion? Because there is nothing that backs our money.....
except our faith and continued use of it, along with other countries faith in it,
and we now even use brute force to demand faith in it (see reasons for our current wars), just as the Crusaders did so many years ago.
The Lord has told me not to place faith in any "false Gods."
What is a God? Does that mean the great creator, or does it mean the ruler of us all?
For if the former is the case, would that not make money our God?
The Bible tells us clearly that "the love of money is the root of all evil." (1 Timothy 6:10)
And the more I learn about our money and the great evils it brings into our World in the manifestation of incessant greed,
The more I abhore our continued worship of Mammon.

I see the continuing evolution into a one world government, as borders are blurred and relations continue to change.
But although we have all dreamt of that great "Eutopian society," the people ushering in this "oneness" have different aims.
Corporatism in its essence is the Church of Mammon and they solely worship their God of Money.
It is against the law for them to do anything other than make that buck, to make their stockholders profit, at any price, even human.
The only thing that stops them from harming humanity at all to make a buck are too few hazily interpreted policies.
So while you may rejoice in hearing the term "Planet Starbucks," excuse me while I go puke at the images of my dead friends that would make that a reality.

I apologize greatly for my continued "doom and gloom" posts, blogs, and bulletins that I continue to subject my friends on here to.
I certainly am not a pessimist, as anyone who knows me in "real time" knows.
I prefer to think of myself as optimistically cautious...
"Ignorance is strength." is what our government and the World leaders rely upon.
For if you all knew the breadth of the atrocities our country commits in our names and on our dime daily,
We would all rise to revolution in a fortnight.
I simply try to bring you small slivers of truth, that one might hopefully awaken you to a greater cause.
One that might, just maybe, sharpen your senses and bring you out of the self obsessed indulgent coma that they have put you into.

I think many prefer to live in denial of these depraved actions, like parents often do when their children turn to drugs.
We prefer to see the World how we want it, and not the sordid reality.
We turn a blind eye so that we may not be forced to feel the guilt that lies heavily upon us all.
And yes, we, as Americans, are all guilty for the parts we play. We were once a great democracy, and we have shamelessly allowed this cancer in our "system" to grow to what it is.
You may say, "but I am only one person," how could I make a change. To that I would reply, if every man gave you a nickel, would you not be wealthy?

Further, many Americans do not have nearly the time to obtain even a nimble grasp of World policies, news, and our ever-reaching manipulations therein.
I myself am only beginning to fathom the scope of my place in this vast World.

There is so much beauty and wonder in this World to distract us. Not that we should be ashamed by our participation in these distractions.
I believe life is an experience, to feel, to be.
But I also believe that our souls need to be fed, and nothing feeds the soul greater than helping another.
What will you do to help someone today?
Luv, Lates,
Audrey