My Good Dogs,
Dis gonna be mighty short, I gotta go asapeeee.
I yam re-reading, I fink I toad you before, the Most Excellent book by Howard Zinn, called “A People’s History of the United States,” and it looks like this, at least mine does…
Yeah, I’ve read it before, twice, but I find different things every time, about whatever I yam focusing on for that reading… DIS time it’s the Main Event, I would say, about how accumulated wealth brings trouble for ALL the rest of us. The power of laws, wages, land usage, land ownership, the courts, and every damn other thing… It’s been going on since— Sumeria? At the very least since the Ever-Fucking Romans.
The very first thing the White Folks did after landing on the shores of Native American land, after they were helped to SURVIVE by those same Native Americans, who, by the way, had lived here (I’m in the USA doncha know) for some THIRTY THOUSAND YEARS, by recent estimation, was to STEAL land. And to lie, lie, lie, breaking treaty after treaty after treaty. Forked tongue is not a hard enough term. Forked HEARTS, maybe.
Yeah, it’s true that some folks bought their land from the Native Peoples, but as time went on, the greed factor was so strong that they simply, over time, stole it ALL, and killed thousands and thousands and thousands of Native People, wiping out entire tribes, and subjugating the rest into the White Man’s culture and reservations, where some Native folks STILL live today, their cultures and numbers, their sacred teachings and languages, and their freedoms and health and well-being destroyed and nearly forgotten…
I yam NOT forgetting the long-suffering Negroes who were stolen, forced through HELL, over and over and over and over, and have had to claw their way to their current status, sometimes with us Caucasians helping, sometimes hurting, badly.
And I yam also not forgetting PLENTY of Caucasians also being abused and killed and treated like vermin along with all the folks of darker shades of skin tone, simply because the RICH hate the POOR. They hate that people want a living wage, that they want to work without being abused or degraded or treated like they don’t matter, or simply left in the streets to rot or live like critters (we dogs do pretty well living ruff— humans have a much harder go of it).
The “history” we’ve been taught in school is BULLSHIT. FYI.
It’s the same damn thing, over and over, through all US History, and the UK has been BIG in this way, as were the Dutch before them, the Romans, you start to see the thing now, it is WEALTH, unchecked, too much of it, that brings the power to abuse and take more, more, more and crush those who were already on that land, or who work for these people, or who stand up to them, or whatever. It is THE WORST PROBLEM OF HUMANITY in my opinion, which counts extra, because I’m a dog.
Read that book. Read it all. Read about the struggles of the “lower” classes, particularly the poor, the non-white, the women, the slaves, and so on.
LET US THINK ABOUT HOW WE WILL FIX THIS, because it’s mandatory that we do if we are to ever flourish on this beautiful planet. Equality must not be just a dream. We’re never gonna get there electing RICH MEN (or rich women, for that matter). We’re never gonna get there if we continue to allow excess wealth! It just ain’t ever gonna work.
Keep your heart fire burning! And keep your brain learning.
I read that entire book for a college history class. Very enlightening.
The Machine Mind programming goes deep. Most people just want to keep on keeping up with the Joneses, accumulating wealth and power. They don't want to see that their attitudes and actions align perfectly with the psychopathic predators who are simply using them while openly mocking them. The truth is painful to them, so they avoid it at all costs.
Stay strong and courageous, Jaan. Even if the majority of people continue to capitulate to the evil tyrants, we will stand as free beings, as the Great Creator meant for us to be!
Sounds about how it is.