As we watch the events of the last four years, indeed the last 50, held up against this pandemic, that there has been a coordinated effort to pull control of the democracy around the world away from the public. For all the pro-democracy claims, we have seen conservative moneyed interests – big oil, big pharma, big media, private healthcare, private education and others work to favor the moneyed class. We see the division of class being ever more present.
The efforts for this are well documented – the Kochs, The Scaifes, the Devoses, etc... all have worked to peck away at the government we built to protect and care for the needs of people.
It’s a struggle that is thousands of years old and told over and over again, but in our immediate past we can see efforts to define success as that of an individual and owe nothing to the group and therefore decimate attempts to lift people out of poverty, out of disease. To say freedom is individual couldn’t be farther from the truth.
We live and die as individuals yes, but we are dependent upon one another. When we convince ourselves that others should care only for themselves, when greed drives us, and we believe we are not responsible for our fellow human – is when we lose our humanity.
I’m not saying we must sing kumbaya together. But to complain when we pay taxes to have children in our community educated, to object to healthcare for everyone or god forbid we help provide a meal or a place to stay for others, when we feel to treat others as equals, then we have lost our humanity.
However, you can express yourself in support of your fellow human – in thought, in donation, in contribution – work to defeat those forces that allow people to starve and suffer to further their own cause. No effort to small or too big – whatever you can do. No judgement.
We live and die by each other's hand. Let’s make sure our efforts promote living to the extent possible.
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