{"id":1368,"date":"2017-04-25T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:41:20","slug":"happy-liberation-day-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Happy Liberation Day (kind of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0beautiful day! It’s a holiday here, Liberation Day, where they celebrate the North expelling the Nazis from their lands. The South had been cleaned of Nazis in 1943, but you know, they don’t want people to know that the South of Italy sometimes has its shit together. Yes Allied forces were needed, but no one down here was in love with what was happening. Generations of stealing the wealth of the South left this area poorly and unable to fight for themselves. But anyway, I took advantage of the day off and ran more than my usual<\/a>. The only fault of the day is a little cloud cover would have been nice for the run. Other than that, it was perfect. Well, less people on the Lungomare, but that’s not the day’s fault!
\nThinking about “Liberation Day” and all the bullshit with the Piedmont Rulers stealing the land down here and the wealth, the subsequent violence and exodus, the generations of keeping the South under their thumb, and I just keep thinking, how much we need to knock all this crap off. These same bandits, or their proxies gallivant across the Earth pulling this shit. Finding resources, stealing wealth, oppressing the people, making them work for practically nothing, or sometimes actually nothing. Meanwhile they funnel all the wealth they can into their own coffers. They sell us this lie that this is the way it’s supposed to be, that we can’t be trusted to look after ourselves, to be responsible. Depending on the circumstances of your birth you are given different levels of autonomy.
\nI have said many times over, this is not what life is supposed to be. I have said, Europeans and those of European descent have to change how they view the world. They have to understand that they have not stopped treating the world the way they scoff at and deride their predecessors when they learn about the colonialism of the “past”. The only difference now is that people are given the illusion of choice. The people running things make it look like those who are being exploited have somehow chosen their exploitation. “Well, they voted for such and such”. You know they didn’t. Firstly, most people don’t go out and vote. Those who are inclined to do so in these banana republics are dissuaded, blocked, silenced, or outright killed.
\nWhy do I talk about this so much? You may ask yourself. Well for one, it’s the right thing to do. You should not be comfortable, nor complacent about how the world is running. You should be asking yourself if you should be able to sleep at night with all this bullshit happening. You should not. It’s the right thing, because all people are my family. No one should work in bondage in “artisanal” mines (no joke, that’s what they call them) just so the price of an iPhone stays below $700! The raw material mining for most modern conveniences is absolutely disgusting. In the end, most of that money isn’t even staying in the countries where the materials are being removed from. Yep, there’s a hypocrisy to me typing this out on a practically new computer. Makes me a little sick thinking about it. But, I have to get the message out there. But I do what I can, and honestly that was the most upsetting part about getting robbed. Knowing I had to buy new things that were causing other people so much pain in this world.
\nThis is not what we are supposed to be doing. I see pictures from Hubble, from telescopes all over the world. I read about all the NASA and ESA missions I can. I’ve said many times, we are supposed to be explorers, we’re supposed to discover everything we can about the Universe. We are the Universe, looking in on itself. Yet we can’t get past treating each other like garbage. The really sad part of that is, it’s a learned behavior, a behavior we started ourselves. In that there is one group that is responsible for a vast majority of this learned behavior, and they’re the ones who must change. Yes, European peoples all over the world. That is where it begins. Because as nice as it is we talk about going to Mars, returning to the Moon, maybe finding life of Europa, or Io, or Titan the fact is we will stay as small, petty, and inconsequential as we act towards each other. If we really want to do great things, stop trying to conquer, stop thinking your idea is better, stop thinking you know better. Move forward, with everyone.
\nI get that people buy into the bullshit that people can’t be trusted with their own autonomy. That this is the best way, and simply some people don’t “measure up”. OK, look at it this way. In the current system, let’s say we wipe the whole slate clean, no inheritance, no debt. Everyone is given the same education, everyone is treated 100% equally no matter their identity in any way, shape, or form. Let’s just say that’s the case. Everyone is working the same amount, regardless of their employment position. What is the virtue of a CEO making thousands times more money than the person cleaning the garbage bins. Also, how do you determine who gets what job? This system is set up so that the people who always had power’s offspring stay in power. Occasionally, people are allowed to advance in the system, but for the most part people work their whole lives and never get any further than their parents did, or grandparents, or great-grandparents.
\nAs long as we keep this status quo, we will never get anywhere, because most people are required to stay focused on what is right in front of them. Most people have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, or week-to-week, or day-to-day, some even hour-to-hour, because of the miserable circumstance someone else is profiting off of. I guarantee, not only have people smarter than Einstein lived and died throughout human history, but they have since he has died. We will never know these people, they weren’t born into a situation where their minds were allowed to flourish, allowed to achieve the greatness they absolutely deserved. Only because we have a system which does not normally reward intelligence, hard-work, or any of the other crap we are told it does. Our system rewards the circumstances of your birth. Sometimes it rewards those circumstances more heavily than others, but all the same the way we proceed is completely ludicrous.
\nIf we don’t give everyone an opportunity to express themselves, how can we ever progress? Perhaps, on a long enough time line, but time is looking decidedly compact\u00a0for humanity at this point. Without a major change, I doubt we can meet the challenges which are going to come upon us much sooner than anyone has predicted. Until we change the way we do things, punishing people for not looking a certain way, praying a certain way, loving a certain way, or whatever division we’ve created for ourselves. Until we give back everything we’ve stolen from all over and truly bring forth a just and equitable society, we are doomed. No doubt about it.
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