What is this thread about:
I think it is about the emotions that are being felt by various people to a nascent awareness that is developing of late, the consequences we are experiencing from global trade. The corporate answer to competition, and don't forget that competition is hate, is to dive as fast to the bottom as one can, sell as much as you can and pay workers as little as you can. As the pay goes down the need for cheap junk goes up. People themselves are simply replaceable worthless tools and society treats them as such.
The awareness of these facts created conflicting emotions with the inevitable reactions to those, a desire not to face them. But the growth in consciousness is an inevitable consequence of need and need is growing all over the world. The race to the bottom creates disparity of wealth, masses who are destitute at the bottom with a few who are wealthy at the too, and a huge middle struggling to make ends meet.
The answer to this will be long and slow in coming, if we survive the hell we have created at all. It will involve, I think, a new kind of consciousness and a new business ethic, that life is to be lived for the joy of living rather than the joy of acquisition, that as Obama says, growing the economy from the middle out. People will have to earn enough to be able to afford to buy. The good of the many will have to prevail over the good of the few. The few and the many are beginning to see that the good of the few is the death of us all.
Meanwhile, those not involved yet in any meaningful expansion of their own consciousness will be reacting with rationalizations to their own guilt and pretending they are innocent. They are fighting off the feeling of death creeping into their bones. Some awaken more easily than others. But again, as our need increases so will our consciousness. The race is between evolution and extinction.
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