New World Order

A friend of mine linked to this Forbes article that talks about how only a handful of corporations own a gigantic sum of the total money sequencing going on in and around the world.

In truth, I don't know how I should feel about this issue. It might be devastating because it enables the obscure thought that they can push and pull society in any direction they so choose, but then again, maybe they can't. As we have seen with the recent uprising in Occupy movements, it is becoming quite clear that even if there ever was a mastermind trying to plot out the worlds economy (the worlds fate), one such person or group cannot fully control the subjects that inhabit the economy. At least not entirely.

Sensationalistic titles aside, I do not believe that there is some huge conspiracy to push the world in a singular direction, and as stated above even if there was, it would hold less than the power needed to do so in any case.


It does empower communities to realise the power of group pressure. Even the establishment with all their millitary and police are subjects to the effects of group pressure. If the public wants something, it is simply a matter of determination and numbers to make it happen. Through elections, through riots or through revolution.


Does that mean that we can simply lay back and expect the future to deliver onto us the sweet redemption from anything we find remotely nasty in society? 
No it most certainly does not. Because a society is made up of its inhabitants and you are one of these. Since all human beings are socially dependant upon relating to each other, it becomes in your own interest to regard it as your job to take part in the process of bettering society.

You are a cell in a body. You have your duty as the red blood cell to feed and fuel the system, but you also have your duty as the white blood cell to find and root out negative influences on your host body. And every time you decide against your job as either of these cells, you leave that amount of extra work for all the ones that do.


Now as a patient diagnosed with a chronic disease that could have been caused by my own immune system, it becomes a reasonably acceptable metaphor for why it is in your own interest to part take in the movement towards changes in society, for otherwise your opinion could go unheard. The social immune system consisting of the people attempting to make their voices heard can overreact and cause a counter-productive outcome.

As we saw in the Bolsjevik revolution, where only a fraction of society seized control over the dissatisfaction of the public, and used this to stear away from the good of the many in order to realise the goals of the few.

In other words, change is coming. Make sure you get on that bus and help out, because if you do not, you have silently consented towards whatever the outcome will be.