You wanna watch it all fall apart?

"You wanna watch it fall apart
Every time I walk I watch
I look, I notice, I observe
I read the signs
And the signs are pointing in the wrong direction
The signs are not naming the streets
or leading you to the highways
the signs are naming names
tombstones to mark the death of children not even born
and I don't mean abortion I mean what is to come"

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Nujabes - The Sign Feat. Pase Rock

I don't think I could have picked better opening lyrics for this post. So yeah, been a while readers. How are you? You doin' good? (Grammatically it would be correct to say "doing well" but I meant this in a literal sense)

Anyway I once again feel the need to point out why I'm typing in English. It's because I have a much broader English audience than native. Plus, what I 'have to say' is considered more globally than locally.

I said in one of the previous posts that I wouldn't like to get into politics and my opinions about it, but sometimes I can't help it. It's like looking at a downed horse with a broken ankle and just staring at it, not being able to do anything about it yet you want to.

Politics is a very serious subject, and I should leave it to much smarter and determined minds than mine, but instead of just average Joe ramblings I'll try to bring out opinions of how to help instead of bashing and pointing out that everything is -excuse the term- FUCKED.

Today, I was checking out the global news and the report was focused on rapid decline in car sales. Because the sell rates are getting so low most of the car companies are forced to shut down their production and hence fire thousands and thousands of workers. Do you see where this is going? Let's do a simple logical observation.

People don't have money to buy cars -> Car companies fail->Thousands of people get without jobs and hence without money -> That in term means that people will have even less money to spend on commodities -> people don't have money to buy "insert whatever" -> "Whatever" companies fail -> ...
Now, I understand that I'm exaggerating and that it isn't as simple as that because I'm thinking on a smaller scale. But too much shit is going on on a global scale and instead of just getting to the root of problems, most politicians and bankers are focusing on somehow getting that wounded horse to get up and make it run. But it can't. It's already injured, and making it run will only make things worse.

What's the root of problems you wonder? Well.......ourselves. It's not the money, it's not the government, it's not some shadow figure controlling the world. It really is ourselves. We've allowed this to happen and we're still allowing it. Greed, corruption, extreme focus on the monetary system.

Money is just a tool. And we're definitely using it wrong. When the whole point of our society is thinking up ways to get more money out of someone's pocket and thus making them miserable while you get a temporary luxury, you gotta wonder, where is all this going? It's no secret that the 1% of people in the world have unimaginable wealth and they don't do anything to earn it, while MOST people work 9-5 in jobs they hate, making less and less every year. Not to mention the modern slavery problem. Yes, modern slavery is very much real. Very, very much real.

"Conservative estimate is that there are 27 million people in slavery today. This means that there are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history."

Source: www.freetheslaves.net

Now, I'm not some saint advocate about it. I know you people can't do much, as neither can I, but the important part is that now you are AWARE. That is my contribution at least. I also know that I don't have a broader audience to point this out to, but as they say: "Rome wasn't built in a day".

Have we forgotten how to help each other without money coming to mind? The status quo (you scratch my back, I scratch yours) is long gone. What happened to kindness? What happened to love?

"Dex, you're an idiot. You need to get a job and stop saying those things. Just keep your head down and pray that it will get better" - Something I hear way too often.
First of all I do have a job. Hardworking physical one. Second of all, what is wrong in realizing the problem and trying to figure out a way to fix it, instead of just hopping someone else does? Who's that someone else? Is it you? You reading this right now. Can you fix some things? Didn't think so. You don't want that responsibility. You just wanna go to school/work, come back, play some games, maybe go out, get drunk/high and than do it all over again. Every day, for the rest of your life, until SOMETHING happens. It's relatively 'easy' to get money. It's even easier to spend it. But guess what, you can earn it again. What you can't earn back is TIME. Every day, you're getting closer to death. You're apathetic. Just waiting for your life to end. You don't care about your future. You don't care about your goals anymore. You don't care about some day maybe accidentally forming a family. You don't care in what world your children will grow up in. Or do you? Maybe you're smarter than I thought. Maybe you aren't the consumerist sheep the government and corporations think you are. Maybe somewhere down there in your heart there is still some good in you, willing to help others without asking nothing in return?

I'm not inciting the concept of revolution or protests or whatever. I'm focusing on the fact that you can't help anyone if you can't even help yourself. Be a better person, be kind to others, and make an example in this corrupt broken world that people should look up to you, trying to be more like you.

I figured this is enough text for today, so, until next time, stay safe people, do good.

Welcome to the space between two worlds.