Inequality



Once more. Dear friend, once more. I know I should not sit and think, besides hurting my small withered brain it is for the most part useless, resulting in nothing more than a headache.

Nevertheless, here I sat half listening to a podcast about Papua and the complexities of that situation and then followed up by listening to a report on the middle east and its complex web of problems, when it occurred to me that the root of theses problems and for that matter most problems is one of inequity. The poor in these counties are really poor and politically powerless and are faced with massive hurdles just to make ends meet and feed their families and into this mix is the incredible wealth of a small number of people in some of these countries. This I think is aggravating the rise of fundamentalism and the instigation of hate between groups in the region. This region is going to explode into a mass of hatred and will become a true world disaster unless some forward thinking peacemakers do something real soon.

In society when one group become so privileged that the mass of the population are suffering great hardship and the elite are so wealthy, beyond the imagining of the masses. There seems to be an inevitable a redistribution of the wealth, now the methods used thought history have been, for the most part, ineffective and to a large extent merely replaced one group of individuals with another group. There does seem, however, to be a pattern regarding this.


In our own society the rich are getting so fabulously rich and the poor poorer, that the fracturing of the society is inevitable unless an intervention is forthcoming. Now I would not pretend to know what form this intervention or the direction of the fracturing of the society will go, but I do get an uneasy feeling that we are perched on the edge of a very tumultuous time in the history of the human race.