Your stories are insanely popular, but sometimes you hit a thread which is fundamental to understanding the whole problem, I think, the key to understanding everything wrong, hence what needs to happen to fix it, but you don’t hammer that nail home. Very frustrating for someone like me to read, and then be buried amongst mostly incidental replies from pointing it out in a way anyone might notice.
But thanks for posting, I’ll try anyway.
The privelige you mention, that no-one ever acknowledges, is built on a tendency to possess.
Some things we are happy to acknowledge we possess. Some others we think it is immoral to possess.
Because it is not explicitly clear what we are doing as a collective, it seems to be buried in the subconscious of most individuals to keep adding more harm, it can appear like a planned, fully conceived dastardly plan by those winning in the game, against those losing.
Even when we might claim to know, from a winning position (“Enjoy being poor!”), actually we don’t.
Possession of information, money, even people, we do all of those things, thus we deprive others of them.
Maybe it was necessary in history, but now it has to be reversed because it is obviously destroying our species and our planet, ending ultimately with extinction.
At the heart of it lies the mechanism of profit, the gain that inevitably exists in every financial transaction, ultimately shifting wealth from one to another.
Carried on for thousands of years, disguised by the same seemingly willful blindness of harmful effects for thousands of years, is where we are at.
Human debt is actually not a debt to one another, but a debt to our planet.
Maybe it was necessary for the early survival of our species to rack up that debt, maybe not.
But now it absolutely isn’t. All need for scarcity, and any debt, is almost completely physically removed. Now it is something imposed by us, in order to retain possession, that we still think we need, still blind to the fact that with abundance, we no longer need possession, and still blind to the effects of energy debt on our planet.
The irony is that it drives us to twist history to cover up any and all tracks that might lead to its full nature being properly brought out into the light for us all to examine.
When we manage to uncover enough of it to deduce its entirety, the world looks like a completely different place.
A world with hope, real hope, of all things being put right.
