Winds of Change by Pablo Ouziel
Fragmented and divided, we are all individually searching for the freedom which allows us to be ourselves and follow our dreams. All of us who are on this planet today have different realities, different abilities and different points of view. Some feel satisfied with what they have, others do not. Some are happy with the current states of affairs in the world and others are trying to change things. I personally fall into the category of people who do not feel satisfied with the world in which I live. From a personal perspective, I have to admit that ‘western democratic capitalism’ has been good to me on the material level, however, on the personal level it has generated in me such contradictory emotions and reflections that I have been drawn towards the spirit of revolutionary existence.
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Society overall has accepted a system which leaves behind those who do not matter, who cannot make it. They don’t matter, because what matters are the statistics of humanity, statistics that are thrown at us on a daily basis with the sole purpose of dehumanizing social reality and promoting the interests of the rich and powerful. Again the important thing to me is not how these powerful individuals are able to maintain this situation, what is interesting to me is why the common people are so tolerant of this reality.
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It is important for westerners to be able to defend the fight of the Dalai Lama for Tibet against the monstrous China, because China has no right to commit the same kind of atrocities we commit. Only democracies are allowed to determine what belongs to whom, only democracies are allowed to overthrow governments, or police the world. Only ‘us’ because we are better than ‘them’. The problem for the common people is that there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’ because we have no say in what is happening. The people in power are laughing at our individual indifference, if we can understand that, then things can change. I have no answers, I just have one question: Where are the winds of change?
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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3 comments:
Interesting read thanks for changing.
so true. the first one fits so aptly on all of us. at least with me. we live in the materialistic world we have been made addicts to, we in a way are worried for the bad happening in the world and at the same time hooked up onto the additives given to us by the 'white man'/ 'western democratic capitalism'
and this reminds me of 'the white man's burden' by kiplings.
have u read it?
Yeah, I so much agree. We never want to let go, never want to change our lifestyles. Equally responsible thus in a way.
Yes, and through all of it, it becoming our burden than theirs. The Brown Man's Burden. Now, I have forgotten who wrote it.
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