Hungry Students

   

Not to be rude but it’s hard to study when you’re hungry . . . The rich people often get to important places first, because they were born there . . . or get there faster than the poor at any rate because the rich ride while the poor walk . . . they also get to important places first because often their parents or grandparents already own that very important place. 

It doesn’t pay to inquire how they acquired said property because if you go back far enough in time (and sometimes not even all that far) invariably one finds the same old pattern: exploitation of workers at home and abroad, wars of conquest and subjugation, outright theft or robbery by by deceit and broken promises: the usual modus operandi. 

Did no Slave Owners get rich from the unpaid labor of their slaves?  No one seems willing to say as much.  Did no Real Estate Tycoons grow wealthy from their theft of Native American lands?  Did no Banker or Financier from the upper class ever benefit from the conquest-by-force of other peoples' lands and resources?  

Does no great fortune owe its existence at least in part to the production of death-dealing weapons of war?  If the rich corrupt foreign despots with bribes and steal that nation’s resources while grossly underpaying their workers, does no one profit?    You would think--to hear them tell it--the rich are somehow far more moral than the rest of us, when in point of fact it’s just the opposite. 

Poor people are rightly called “the salt of the earth”.  Ordinary working people are far more honest than your average variety of luxury-lapping self-indulgent money-chasing status-seeking aristocrats who put wealth on a pedestal . . . and around its base carefully place pews for their knees to allow them to worship the Great God Dollar Sign. 

The crisis is coming because it must come; the rich and powerful can never take the lead in reforming American society in such manner that our country moves toward greater democratic justice and economic fairness, because the rich aren’t built that way. 

Their whole lives have been devoted to proving their “superiority” through their accumulation of wealth; they are obsessed with the need to protect their fabulous assets by whatever means available; their economic status defines them and controls their ability to act outside of the millionaire’s box. 

As they will never lead America and the world out of its present mess, the people must.  Call it revolution or what you will, the crisis is coming—and no amount of money will determine the throw of the dice on those horizon-broadening days of irreversible change and rebellion.         

The crisis is coming . . . and far sooner than you think!