Encouragement

Consider the following:

– We are encouraged to believe that scarcity is the state of the world and that it’s every person for themselves.

– We are encouraged to dominate others so that we may survive.

– We are encouraged to believe that the resources of the Earth are possessions and that they belong to a few.

– We are encouraged to believe that there is no solution to poverty and that humanitarian aid entrenches poverty.

– We are encouraged to believe being rich and powerful is the ultimate measure of success.

– We are encouraged to believe our survival lies in controlling the governance and production systems of the world.

– We are encouraged to believe Earth belongs to us and not the other way around.

– We are encouraged to identify by race, class, religion, gender, faction, tribe. We are encouraged to mistrust anyone who does not share our identity.

– We are encouraged to see the illness and trauma caused by the disparities of society as moral flaws of the oppressed.

– We are encouraged to see sharing the bounty of the Earth as a threat to the wealth and productivity of nations and the slippery slope to dependence on the state.

– We are encouraged to see human beings as human capital and to see a person as a unit of production.

– We are encouraged to believe that we have neither the will nor the power to make positive change.

– Our point of view is fixed through social conditioning.

Why? Someone is reaping the benefits of these beliefs.