In reality, NO lives matter.

[Triana]

Last edited Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11:36 AM - Edit history (1)

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That’s right.

Black Lives do not matter.

White Lives do not matter.

Brown, Asian, Male, Female, Young, Old, Native American lives do not matter.

What matter most in this world (at least to the people controlling everything including all the governments in it) is MONEY.

CORPORATE lives (bottom lines and profits) matter. MONEY matters.

That is ALL.

. . .

Sure. Millions of people are caring and generous and do not put money at the top of their priority lists.

But these generally are not the people who are running things.

The corrupt, greedy money-grubbers are running things.

Most of us don’t have enough MONEY to pay any of them enough to listen to us or care about our concerns. OUR LIVES DON’T MATTER to them. We don’t have enough MONEY TO PAY THEM for our lives to matter to them.

Such Inconvenient Truth.

No one wants to say it. No one wants to talk about it. No one wants to admit it. Bernie Sanders touched on it. And he was raked over the coals, mocked and told by the establishment money-grubbers to shut up about it – that trying to change it was “pie in the sky” and unrealistic.

Because if people talk about the problem, then they’d have to DO SOMETHING about it.

And nobody wants to. At least not enough people. And not the right people.

So we go on pretending like we are NOT the IMMORAL society and hopeless world that we clearly ARE.

Politicians create distractions by touting the alleged immorality of homosexuality and birth control and reproductive rights. These things are not immoral issues. They simply are not. They are manufactured to keep people fighting about anything – anything but what our real moral challenges are.

These things are conveniently used to distract from our real problems because money-grubbers, money changers and the politicians they bought don’t want to tackle the REAL IMMORAL issue of GREED and MONEY and the simple fact that NO. LIVES. MATTER. Except when they can be utilized as profit centers for corporations. . . .

when they want to make a buck off of you. Except when they want to profit from the birth of your children, your sickness or injury or disease, your struggles, your kid’s struggles, your elderly parents, your or your family’s need for clean air, clean water, food or education, and all of your deaths.

Every human being on this planet is simply a commodity to be exploited so corporate entities can make and hoard more money and avoid paying taxes on it or sharing any of it. Then they can charge you more for the things you need to survive and they can make more money. Don’t want to pay it? Can’t pay it? Drop dead! You’re no longer of any use in this World unless you can be a generator of profit for the money-grubbers.

And so it goes, this thing that shall not be mentioned. Because God forbid it should change. It won’t.

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http://www.sevenbowie.com/2016/07/in-reality-no-lives-matter/

[merrily]

1. I know you mean very well, but "No Lives Matter" seems to me to be the flip side of "All Lives

Matter."

We have a real problem in this country of African Americans being treated historically and to this day as though they are less human than whites and members of some other minorities; and the phrase "Black Lives Matter" encapsulates that shameful history and current reality.

If we want to say human life should have a value, fine. As a bleeding heart liberal, I certainly agree with that with every bit of my bleeding heart and conscience. But let's not try to convey that concept by diluting the message with which "Black Lives Matter" seeks to impress us. They are two very different messages, being conveyed for very different reasons. JMO

[KMOD]

2. This is way too negative for me.

Complaining is easy. Doing something is harder.

But, that won't stop me from being in camp Doing Something.

[timdiaz]

4. Right viewpoint

I'm not an optimistic person. But I belive that human life signifies something.
In our world exists charity and volunteers that rate highly every creature and try to take care for them.
And I bet that even cruel criminals are able to find love and understanding.

[Triana]

7. Pointing out the reality of the world we live in isn't "complaining"

The first step in fixing a problem is realizing 1. what the problem is; 2. admitting it's a problem. It's the same for the biggest moral issue humanity faces as it is for an alcoholic. Every problem we have boils down to greed and love of money. Fixing it will require nothing less than a major shift in human consciousness.

Do I believe we can do that? Yes.

Do I believe we will do that? No.

It's possible. Not probable.

And that's where we are.

Sorry the truth hurts. And sorry you label it "complaining".

I guess saying we're all going to die someday (true - no one makes it though "life" alive) is complaining too, in that case. Interesting.

[63splitwindow]

3. Life Matters. nt

[lostnfound]

5. That's an external material view compared to meaning-based

Matters to who?
Life has meaning in small moments, individual relationships. It has too MUCH meaning, perhaps; which is why the loss of a gentle soul that serves food to you at the school cafeteria or of the man who was called dad or brother or husband or boyfriend hurts so much. Because those relationships and moments have meaning. Because they DO matter. And having empathy means recognizing that they DO matter.

I'm not saying that there's no truth to what you write. But I think for many, such a view leads to despair.

[Triana]

8. I'm not saying *I* believe no lives matter. I AM saying...

...that in the world we live in and to those controlling and running things, they don't. At all. That is a reality. What matters most in this world is money. Not lives. That is evident in our prison system, our healthcare system, our system of government (Oligarchy) and our public education system -- and our trade systems.

Yes we all have families, and friends and empathy and are hurt over these events or when we lose loved ones. But WE aren't the ones controlling or running things. Until or unless we are, or until or unless SOMETHING becomes more important than MONEY to those who are controlling and running things - none of this will change.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Oh FFS

[Triana]

9. Yea. Reality again.

Don't you just hate that?

Me too.