Originally posted by Superman Falls
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We talked deep into the night at great length about several topics and I said "Listen, not many people believe in you these days, what's going on?" and God said "They've lost their sensitivity to what exists separate to the five senses, they believe and trust in form and form only" and I said "I know. But why is that?" and God said "You ask too many questions" and I said "I guess" and God said "Look, if you want to converse with people who love form, who love science, who love proof and rationality and evidence then that is the language you must use to converse with them" and I said "Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" and God smiled and said "Do you really want an answer to that?" and then God left.
So, yes, rather than talk about my feelings and thoughts on the state of society, let us see what science, what rationality, what imperial evidence has to say about the health of the planet and the people on it:
The percentage of people with obesity has trippled between 1975 and 2016. The rise in consumption of processed foods has seen an epidemic in heart disease and diabetes and today 1 in every 2 people will develop cancer. Narcissm, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and other mental health problems are all on the rise according to statistics. Research carried out by the MET Office warns that core crops like wheat, maize, rice and soy are in such critical risk that there is a real danger of worldwide food shortages. Furthermore the rapid extinction of insects due to pesticides, intensive farming and climate change is threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.
Our form of democracy is a sham. In a true democracy citizens exercise power by electing representatives from among themselves. A genuine democracy is a government formed by the people for the people. As Aristotle famously remarked "In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme." You only need to see who has the power to see we don't have real democracy.
Our capitalism is just a refined form of slavery. I'll try and keep this simple. Let's say you work in a place that makes chairs. Now let's say the raw materials and the tools and the equipment for every chair you make costs £100 and let's say that via your work you turn that £100 worth of 'stuff' into a finished chair with a value of £300 (meaning you created £200 of value) are you paid anywhere near the value you created? No. You're paid a pittance compared to the surplus profit. The profit goes to those at the top. But I think it's obvious to everyone capitalism has done. It's put 95% of the world's wealth into 5% of the world's population exactly as intended. In other words it's an awful system for the vast, vast majority of people.
Taking all that into consideration,is it any wonder that, again, according to data, happiness levels are reportedly in decline as is the general sense of well being?
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