Greed
By Dianne Irene ©2012
Addiction to Greed
Over many thousands of years, humanity has repeated many behaviors. Advancements are made only to have them regulated, controlled, and oftentimes only made available to a few. If humanity was been given this time to develop how can we still be in the place where cancer is not eradicated, poverty is rampant, people work their entire lives to pay off something called debt? The answer boils down to a very simple human desire. One would hope that after all these years; humanity would have gotten beyond greed.
Greed is a simple human desire; however its roots infiltrate many aspects of humanity. When we look back in history we can see many examples of greed. Glorious Rome had accomplished what many cities could have only dreamed of accomplishing in the way of the arts, architecture, economy, and even technology. Humans had developed these advances only to allow them to be misused and for gratitude to become the missing link.
One of the greatest civilizations was torn apart ultimately by greed. The addiction to greed led to an obsession with power and ultimately, the demise of the great city. The lesson that humanity can learn from the past of Rome is pertinent to our future.
Our economy is no longer based on a value of gold; it instead has become a fast working machine of greed and control. Humanities entire concept of money has led us to a form of modern slavery and to modern monarchy. The wealth has been accumulated by the few and the many work to keep a monetary machine in working order. Benefits are given to those high in the game and those that are common, are left with a treadmill path of debt and earnings.
Our planet was given to humanity to enjoy, care for, and be stewards of the other creatures that also occupy the planet. This should never be part of a political ideology to gain monetary power. The sacredness of what we have been given has gotten lost in the elements of our monetary mentality. Nature is a gift for all of humanity.
The “Sides” of Greed
Humanity has enough land to accommodate everyone. The planet could easily provide a renewable crop bed for the entire world in the growth of vegetation. Instead, we are progressing to the mass manufacturing of living creatures in a large factory process which actually puts strain on the environment and leaves less room for renewable crop growth. Humanity has also commercialized the concepts of health. A great monetary component to our working machine, the health care system has become a club where only those who have access can benefit from its offerings. Alternative medicine has been considered like the “atheistic club” of a religiously rigid mindset. This tragic attitude has stunted the opportunities that both schools of thought have in curing the world of its ailments. Much like political systems of two sides, they are in an endless battle to be the source of contribution. Instead, we should be moving beyond “sides” to a place where the thought process is sacred and the decisions are to the benefit of humanity.
The political system has been commercialized and fallen into the trap of sides. If each one served and left their office with no benefits, then how quickly would their decisions for humanity be prioritized? Those that serve should still be subject to the community priority. How can a political system that is exempt from the laws they pass be the best source for decision making? The idea of sides, has served to separate the power of the people to be citizens of planet earth. The politics in politics is not necessary and could be sufficiently fixed if the terms were really a service and not an entitlement.
Entitlement
When those who are in groups exempt themselves from the group, then they create a form of slavery mentality. The commercial machine begins then to serve itself and get caught up in the survival of itself. The very purpose for its function is lost to greed. The monetary system should, however, never be used to enslave man’s free will of enterprise. However, greed has allowed the politicalization of many schools of thought. Entitlement is an attitude that feeds the greed process. All of humanity is on a journey and each of us is entitled to be personally responsible for our journey. No system should dictate our soul’s path. However, when entitlement causes the suppression of others, then it has become an element of the human body that refuses to acknowledge its true function in that body.
Together, we have the talents, the resources, and the ability to create a fair and prosperous life for everyone, yet we still have to even eradicate hunger. This real problem could be satiated. Instead, we still have parts of humanity that are dying from hunger. This is brought about by the mentality of entitlement. We should be following the resources back to the source and realizing that our resources belong to humanity. They should never be patented, owned, and held for profit. Water, land, and vegetation should be considered sacred rights and should never be commercialized and accessed by only the few. This very dangerous mentality will only stunt the physical well being of the planet and it people, but also present the realization that humanity still has not matured.
The Same Source
Humanity can keep repeating the Rome path and being caught in the fear of self preservation, or we can start acting like one race on this planet that remembers that we all came from the same source and it is to this one source that we will return. The humbling realization that what we create is our own responsibility and that we are all accountable in spirit in how we interact with others and what we do for humanity is not an option, but a reality. The sooner we embrace this truth, the sooner life on this planet will become what it was meant to be and the people will become aware of who they really are and that we are indeed free to not choose greed.
